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!!

4 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. admin 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

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