Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Why Blog?

Blogging can have many different uses.  Some use it for a more personal aspect; like to update family members on what going on in their life and family.  Others use it for there businesses to communicate with employees and customers on there strengths.  And some use it as a portfolio to showcase there talent so that others can see there work!!!

Squarespace: What is it?

Square place is a hosted environment for maintaining a website, blog or even a portfolio.  ANYONE can use squarespace from the professional blogger to an author to a lawyer even.  Squarespace gives you complete control over design and any customization.

With all of these good features squarespace why pay $12 to use this blogging website when you can use blogger for free?

Reason why squarespace may be better than blogger:

* There is no overcrowding
* Gives bloggers access to multiple categories
* Clean urls
* you stand out in the blogging world



This image was found at:
*http://mashable.com/2008/07/25/squarespace-v5/

Monday, October 18, 2010

Duel: Blogger vs. Worpress

Blogger and Wordpress are the top two sites to use when wanting to create a blog for free.  Below I am going to list positive and negative aspects of both the sites so that you will be able to pick for yourself which suits you best!!!

Blogger Pros:
*easy to use templates
*you can use any type of script
*easy to use
*mobile blogging
*easy to setup and manage
Blogger Cons:
*only 1 gigabyte of space for images
*limited template options
*sometimes the site lags when loading




Wordpress Pros:
*3 gigabytes of space for images
*tags are supported by search engines
*lots of customization options
*easy to install and setup

Wordpress Cons:
*costs for style sheet editing
*more technical; for those who don't have extensive computer knowledge
*security issues



I hope the above information is helpful in helping you decide to either choose Blogger or Wordpress for your blogging needs.

You can find these and more images at:

*http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-themes/magic-8-ball-10/
*http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/03/02/43-incredibly-useful-collection-of-tutorials-resources-insipirations-etc-to-discover-the-best-of-the-web-in-february.html

A glimpse of what I did for my homepage