What Blogging Tools Are Best For You?
I have been investigating several blogging tools and have found quite a few worthy candidates, and if you haven't caught on yet, I have chosen Blogger.com.
In today's society blogging is the new journal. So let's ask ourselves, what is the greatest journal as of today? Honestly, The greatest journals were not written with a keyboard or smartphone. With powerful words and stories that could make the coldest of hearts melt, we still have the diaries from Harry S. Truman, Samuel Pepys, Lewis Carroll, and Anne Frank. These are the journal worlds kings and queens. With the bar set at an amazing sky-scraping height, how does one simply choose blogging software?
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Lets Compare
I gave some time to reading blogs on different sites to see how the workflow seemed, how many ads popped up, if everything seemed like a certain theme the writers couldn't break out of (visually), and the elegance of it all. The top 3 blog tools that I have found are:
I found more than 3, but one must understand how a college student lives, which is usually paycheck to paycheck. Free was a must and thus everything else eliminated. The only other big killer that sought out a candidate and took them out of the run for my blog was the ads.
LiveJournal
LiveJournal had the most ads. This may not bother some people, but I personally find it quite distracting and at times confusing. I am a digital media student, and if something distracts me on the internet, I'm sure that someone who spends less time online would use words such as intolerable and irritating. It may seem like a trivial, but when it comes to being perfect for the situation, nothing else compares. Although there were quite a few great traits that LiveJournal had, do not let me turn you off to the site altogether.
The customization seemed in depth and extensive, as well as how they have integrated photos. (I received most of my information via the FAQ page) and even how massive the FAQ page is, it seems to cover anything that could happen and it is well organized and easy to follow.
WordPress
WordPress seems to have a varying amount of options and one that struck me the most was the ability to take a blog from LiveJournal or Blogger and switch it over to WordPress. It is the leading CMS as of today and had 22% of all new websites as of August 2011. It is fully customizable with html, and PHP. The only turn off that I had found was it has a history of security issues. WordPress was my original choice except for this detail that was uncovered.
This is a major possibility for me in the future, but for now I felt as I had found the tool that I felt warranted time and effort to seek out and explore.
Blogger
Blogger is powered by Google. This to me was an instant advantage. This means a lot of integration with things such as Google Docs. The blogs I read through elegant as well. Not to say that the other ones were not, but there was a simplicity to blogger.
Nothing seemed overcrowded, or blank and it appeared that the customization was just as extensive as WordPress. I would love to spend some time and adjust the CSS the way I would like, but that all comes with the flow of time and effort.
So in conclusion to this blog, the point I would love to convey, whether you are a HTML/CSS customization freak or just a basic facebook status lover, let your voice be heard no matter what! There are tons of options on the internet for your opinion to be heard as it needs to be. The best advice for creating a successful blog is to try and try again. Try Blogger, then switch over to LiveJournal, or WordPress. You will never truly know how you feel about any of these amazing modern day tools unless you spend the effort to put your heart into it. Strive to reach into peoples hearts the way Turman or Frank have and forever will.
Until next time, your friendly neighborhood dreamer, Nick Stamper
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