Create Blogs is on the Move!

I said in my previous post that I have made some changes to the way I blog, and I am about to make one of the biggest for this blog. I'm moving it!

It's moving to Wordpress which is another blogging platform but with some distinct differences to Blogger. I won't go too indepth at the moment but here are the 3 main differences for me:

• It's open source software which gives greater flexibility.
• The Wordpress software has to be uploaded onto a server.
• You need your own domain name.

That means that the name will be changing to www.builda-blog.com which I felt was a better name as it's turned into more than just a creating blogs site. This is all completely new to me, so if things look a bit funny for a while you'll have to excuse me, while I get a grip on Wordpress!

I am going to continue to share my developments about the blog, to show how this blogger does it, and give a view of my thinking behind it. I hope this is helpful to anybody, (I'm not saying this is the right way to do it or anything, just an example of the way I am doing it) please let me know what you think by leaving a comment at the end of this post.

And I hope to see you on the other side!!

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Blog Hosts

There are loads of blog hosts to choose from to create your blogs like Blogger , Wordpress and Typepad to name but a few, and most of them are free.

I have been using Blogger for hosting my blogs. It’s owned by Google, so if you have a Google account already you can use that to access Blogger, it also means if you’re using Adsense or Adwords they can all be accessed with the same account, password and email (handy!).

Blogger is free to host your blog, and since out of beta they have created New Blogger, which uses a drag-and-drop template editing feature which allows you to easily add Adsense, banners, buttons, photo’s etc to your blog and arrange them very easily with no html experience needed. Blogger also has an advanced feature that lets you point the blog to your website, as well as keeping everything together you don’t have to have a blogspot url, you can use the websites url.

I have found Blogger to be very user friendly and easy to create blogs, set up and customise them. They have a very extensive help center including Blogger Status, Blogger Buzz and Blogger Help Groups. So if you need a question answered you’ve got a good chance!

There are a lot of other good blog hosts out there, but this has been my experience of this one. Keep testing - I’m going to...

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