What Blogging Platform Should I Use?

There are several blog scripts available for use, including:

• Blogger – Free to use, can have a blog on their site (blogspot.com) or publish the content to your own hosting account.
• Wordpress – Free to use, can have a blog on their site (wordpress.com) or grab the open source script (wordpress.org.) for use on your own hosting account.
• Typepad – Paid service (typepad.com)

There are bloggers using every type of blog script who swear by their tool of choice and list off great features that keep them loyal. So your own choice will be a personal one.

For a business blog, a common choice is a self hosted Wordpress blog only because of it’s option to have static pages, and with a self hosted Wordpress blog you are allowed to have an ad supported website.

Wordpress is feature rich. It is an Open Source script. This means that anyone can take the source code and edit it. A community of creative and talented people are constantly improving the code and releasing updates for free use.

Wordpress is flexible. It works with a variety of ‘plug ins’ which are like hacks for the base code of the scrip. When uploaded and activated, they make the blog script work differently.

At Girly Website Hosting we definitely recommend using a self hosted Wordpress blog, and with your hosting package purchase you can actually put in a free request for us to install Wordpress for you! Also as a hosting install and customize our free themes at no charge!

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