Which blogging tool would you recommend and why?
Wide open question I know, but I am interested to hear about a range of tools and experiences...
Thanks.
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Howard Y.
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I would recommend WordPress for several reasons:
1. Hosting Support - many hosting providers have one-click installs for WordPress (link below to Dreamhost for example)
2. Developer Support - there are tons of developers that have written plug-ins for added functionality to extend WordPress.
3. Designer Support - there are tons of themes available for WordPress and many designers know how to customize themes.
4. Active Open-Source Community - the WordPress code has been consistently updated with new features, so you shouldn't be worried that the open-source code will get stale.
All of this combined means that you can make your blog do exactly what you want and make it look exactly how you want. Once you have things rolling, you can change the themes and plug-ins as appropriate. WordPress also has importers from other major blogging tools, so it is a win in all directions.
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All the Google tools are simple et pawerfull !
Blogger si great...
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Marco K.
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Wordpress. It's dead simple to use. You can get hosted solutions or host your own copy. Alot of webhosts provide wordpress as a default blogging platform you can install.
Blogger is also very easy, as well as typepad. But I go for wordpress. It just seems to work better...
Marco
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Tony R.
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The answer depends on what you want to do. If you just want to start a blog and you don't want to hassle with setting up software, servers, etc., I would agree with Mr. Ivan, Blogger is great. Wordpress.com is also a good option. If you want to focus on a specific vertical or area, there are plenty of groups that offer focused blogs.
If you want download the software to host your own blog, I think WordPress is probably the best solution out there for a focused blog. It has lots of extensions, it is well written and easy to use.
If you are looking to setup your own blogging environment with richer content around it and really host blogs, then I'd recommend you look at soemthing like Drupal.
There are tons of other options that I'm sure will be contributed by others, but, in my experience these are the top solutions out there, with the most solid codebase and strong communities to support any issue you might run into.
-Tony
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Good day Gregor,
Word Press is an obvious (and easy to use) choice that comes to mind.
Regards,
John S. Rajeski
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For server blogging software, I recommend:
Wordpress, Movable Type, Mephisto.
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http://wordpress.org/
http://www.movabletype.org/
http://mephistoblog.com/
For client blogging tool, I recommend:
MacJournal, ecto.
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http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=85
http://infinite-sushi.com/software/ecto/
Regards,
Dongyi
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As mentioned, it depends.
Are you looking for personal or business? Free or fee? Using a domain?
I use Wordpress myself. In addition to all the great reasons already posted here, you will find a lot of bloggers out there with great tips and info on using Wordpress.
Here's mine - I use it as my primary website...
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I'm a big fan of WordPress.
It's almost infinitely customizable and has a very strong development community.
The best part about it is that it's very intuitive to use and provides a blogger with all of the tools they need in a very simple interface.
I've tried others - blogger.com, Moveable Type, TypePad B2... but none are as robust.
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Although Blogger provides a decent tool, Wordpress it by far the most customizable blogging platform at the moment.
It can run on a separate domain as well as on the wordpress.com domain, supports extensive skinning, and a wide range of plugins that make your life easier. It is search engine friendly and updates are usually made public quite often.
Wordpress, in my opinion, is by far the best. It is simple to set up and there are some great open source templates/themes to get started. The plugins for wordpress are also outstanding, specifically the plugins related to SEO (All in one SEO, Google xml sitemaps) and monetization (adsense, alinks). Just double check that the plugins you are using are compatible with the version of Wordpress you install.
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Jan-Erik I.
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Dear Gregor
I started out with Blogger myself, but wasn't 100% satisfied. Did some research and imported my blogger into Wordpress. I have been 100% satisfied with that. Easy to use and flexible.
Best regards
Jan-Erik
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I've used both MoveableType and WordPress, and MUCH prefer WordPress. Great tool, very customizable, lots of support.
Gregor,
It seems that Wordpress is the hands down favorite. It is easy to use, tons of plug-ins to make the blog more dynamic, and it can be made to look like the rest of your web site with relative ease. Cost is fantastic, free. It can also be used for a full web site content management system. That just takes a few more steps in the planning stage, and a coder who knows what they are doing.
There are other blogging platforms out there as well. One that is very robust, and has an incredible developer community is Expression Engine. They put out a very simple to use in your design blog tool a few years ago called pMachine. EE is a single or multi-user blogging app, a full web site CMS and it is easy to use. The setup and customization is not very hard to do. The full version of it is not free though. They do have the free core version and a personal version at $99.95, but for commercial use, the cost is $249.95.
Donna
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You can always use something like blogger or wordpress.com and forget all about the "guts" of the tool and concentrate in the important: the content. I think this is the best option unless you have a clear need for tinkering with the platform: installing certain plugins, themes and appearance, etc.
Also you can count on some business specialized on blog creation and promotion. This is the expensive way but you can get the best of the two worlds.
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I use Blogger and I am happy with it for now.
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Zane S.
Business leader with record of revenue growth, positive cash-flows, with innovative collaboration and social media tools
I'm most familiar with Typepad's hosted services. Simple, easy-toget started and use. Very affordable. Lots of widgets. Fairly good support.
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We really like using Blogger, which is now owned by Google. It allows you as an option to have the content hosted on your site (posted via FTP), and it's pretty easy to customize the look and feel. Plus, because it's owned by Google, you get great SEO positioning, as Google crawls through the blog sites fairly often.
If you need help setting it up or customizing it, let me know. It's what we're using for our site (see link below)
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Partha M.
IT Clinical Application Developer at University Hospitals of Cleveland - LION - 1000+ Connections
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Blogger ( www.blogger.com ) is cool. If you download the Google toolbar, toolbar.google.com, you can directly publish any page to blogger right from the toolbar with just one click!
As so many other people have, I also recommend Wordpress.
In addition to the server side application, you may want to look at the capabilities of some of the client side blog authoring solutions that are available. On specific one I'd check out is the Flock browser (http://www.flock.com)
Flock has a number of excellent features for both blog content authors and blog consumers (WebClipboard, Blog Editor, RSS Reader, "Blog This," etc.).
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Wordpress!
