How To Get Your Own Blog

Posted by Alex On March - 10 - 2009

Custom Design WordPress BlogHaving a blog combined to your existing web site or as a standalone site is now a must. With a traditional web site ,  the owner is the sole content provider and the communication with the end-user is a one-way street.

• A blog opens a two ways of communication between you (the website/blog owner) and your site visitors through comments they leave to your posts.
• You blog helps you build stronger relationship with you the end-users/customers.
• You blog posts bring more traffic to your website and generate  repeated visitors

Getting a blog to start building your online community is pretty easy. You can have a free blog by opening an account with websites such as wordpress.com or blogger.com. You get can instanly get a blog that is in fact a subdomain of those web sites (i.e. http://www.lorelle.wordpress.com).

The second alternative is to get a self-hosted blog. That is a blog hosted in our very own web hosting account so you can choose the domain name associated with your blog. You can setup your blog as a subdomain (i.e. http://www.blog.yourdomain.com) , in your website subfolder (i.e. http://www.saheltech.com/blog)  or have it as the root of your hosting account (i.e http://www.blogdesigncenter.com) as a website on its own.

I personally recommend owning  a self-hosted blog no matter what content management system you choose (wordpress, MovableType).
With a self-hosted blog you have total control of your hosting space,  your content and your blog site address. Should you decide to change a hosting server, your blog URL remains the same.

Happy Blogging!!

6 Responses to “How To Get Your Own Blog”

  1. derek says:

    What theme are you using? I can barely see the sub-title bar

  2. Alex says:

    I am using a custom designed theme. I checked in all major browsers (Safari, FF, Opera, Chrome, IE6, IE7 and IE8) and they all display all the sections in all pages.
    What web browser are you using so I can double-check. Thanks for your feedback.

  3. Everything looks fine to me (on Firefox) – maybe Derek has his zoom level too low. I definitely agree with you about the self-hosted blog, that’s the best way to have full customizability.

  4. Why some time I use wordpress blogger I can’t open with firefox It structure is not beautiful

  5. premium magazine theme says:

    I am also facing the same problem as Tomas Akinfeev is facing the layout always changes,What to do?

  6. Alex says:

    Curious I do not seem to find that issue using all the major web browsers. I am beginning to suspect some people just made up fictitious problem so they can have something to comment about in order to get a backlink. Sorry folks! I will approve any comments that’s not offensive but other comments that’s just plain useless disguised spam will not be rewarded with an inbound link. You get nothing if you do not genuinely contribute.

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