When He’s Just Not That Into Your Blog
The world wide web exploded back in 1995 when windows 95 came out and the personal computer was made affordable. Hideously designed Geocities websites flooded the blogosphere as well as a huge dump of poorly design web trash that is for some reason still floating around 13+ years later. People, we’ve moved beyond dial-up and Internet America, we no longer use pagers or type writers (At least those of us in the 21st century) so now it is time to start cleaning up your website.
My recommendation for businesses or bloggers is to use WordPress for all of your online web needs. It’s an excellent content management system that allows you to easily update your website with content that not only look professional but is easy to change by novices that still have trouble with the double-click.
I’ve been blogging now for 8 years and I started out writing each html page by hand and adding it to my site. Nothing was dynamic and the static pages were an cluster (insert expletive) of bad organization and poor writing. Eventually I upgraded to Blogger which is a great tool for beginning bloggers who aren’t web savvy at all.
After Blogger I looked at using Moveable Type, Drupal, Joomla, Textpattern – I even installed a few of these complex CMS – but they just weren’t as user friendly as WordPress. I now feel that Xanga, MySpace, and Geocities are all Junior High and High School versions of these newer and better tools: WordPress, Facebook, and Blogger.
There are a number of companies now that can create a great website for you, but you can do a lot of it yourself by editing a template that has been created for WordPress. With literally thousands of templates to choose from you can easily find a layout that works for you and if you don’t know how to modify it, then you should be able to find someone who can customize it for a few hundred bucks.
Check back often on this site as I will be updating it with popular links for affordable – and GOOD – web design, social media, marketing, advertising, and best web tools such as Flickr and Twitter.
Thanks for the great information. I want to start a blog and didn’t know what the best platform to use was, this is very helpful!
I fell in love with WordPress merely seconds after being introduced to it. It offers a lot of benefits to a blogger who doesn’t do design. But, it’s even more powerful for the blogger who can design, or a designer who wants to sell his services to the blogger who can’t design. The simplicity of it could allow for one to juggle multiple websites at the same time. Good stuff, Eddie. And thanks for getting me setup with WP.
-Rondo
I am a Joomla Junkie! My page is still under construction but check it out and let me know what you think. http://www.securefountain.com.
Lily,
You may not check back here, but if you do then I have some bad news. Your site is in need of some serious work. I created a user account for myself but for what purpose? I can’t find any way to contact you and many of your fonts are in white on a white background. Why are you a Joomla Junkie if you don’t know how to use it? WordPress will at least give you excellent templates to start with and they are easy to manage and modify. Best of luck to you in your security endeavors and let me know if you want to switch to WordPress.