[X-Newbies] Blog and Wiki newbie.

[Brian Durant]

The problem for me and the reason that I am split about blog or wiki,
is that I would like to use something as simple as MacJournal and has
a low learning curve - something for myself, but what I really need is
something collaborative that I can show to the partners in my business
and convince them to use on a "private" part of our web site, so that
we can develop ideas, collect data and that is platform agnostic -as
my partners use Windows. The learning curve still needs to be
relatively low and needs to look good, so that I can convince the
others to use it.

Cheers,

Brian

On 1/15/07, J <themacintoshlady at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I agree with Tony.
> I like Typepad as well.
>
> Most of the sites I set up for taxpayer groups and candidates and
> legislators have a
> static section for the information that doesn't change and then non-
> web savvy owners can post their own material to the blog section
> without having to know how to code.
>
> Otherwise I could not keep up with all those websites myself...
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Tony Johansen wrote:
>
> > On 15/1/2007 8:08 AM, "Brian Durant" <globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to setup some sort of blog or wiki, preferably on one of
> >> my own domains, but I need some advice, links, HowTo, books at
> >> Amazon,
> >> etc. to figure out what and how to create one. I would like to create
> >> one in connection with a business I am starting, so it needs to look
> >> nice enough not to scare customers away ;-)
> >
> > There is a vast difference between blog and wiki. So first you need to
> > decide which to go for. Blogs well done are fine for most
> > circumstances and
> > are easier so I would advise blog. Wiki you would use if you really
> > need
> > significant customer interaction on the site.
> >
> > 2nd: free or pay? Like with anything you get what you pay for.
> > Blogger.com
> > is free for example and a lot of people like them. Personally I
> > find them
> > too limited and their templates are the most boring on the planet.
> > I use    http://www.typepad.com/    It has the balance between
> > powerful,
> > flexible, looks great, value, etc that suits me. And they have
> > excellent
> > online manual resources that makes everything simple, yet you can
> > easily add
> > photo albums, widgets etc.
> >
> > A third choice open to you if you run Tiger, is to make sure you have
> > Apple's iWeb and use that. It is designed to be easiest to use with
> > a .Mac
> > account, but there are ways of getting it onto your own hosted web
> > space.
> > Iweb demo's I have seen show it to be easy to use and looks cool.
> >
> > With all of these it is best for business to have the blog on your own
> > domain name because the web address can be simpler and easier for your
> > customers to use. TypePad makes that process relatively easy to do,
> > and are
> > helpful at every step incidentally. I have not used iWeb myself, so
> > can't
> > comment on their helpfulness, nor the flexibility of the programme.
> >
> > Blogs work well, but I find a static web site works better on the
> > web in
> > terms of the search engines. An ideal world is to have a static web
> > site
> > with an embedded blog that takes care of news, specials, etc
> >
> > You may care to look at one of my (too many) TypePad blogs here:
> >                    http://www.christmas.blogs.com
> >
> > Have fun :-) Tony