blogmaking.net http://www.blogmaking.net/blog How to make a blog and other helpful (and related) stuff! Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:55:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 en Vox - blogging for your grandmother http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/20/vox-blogging-for-your-grandmother-2/ http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/20/vox-blogging-for-your-grandmother-2/#comments Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:35:48 +0000 Cathy Blogging Systems Vox http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/20/vox-blogging-for-your-grandmother-2/ Haven’t done any more work on this blog, but not to fret, I have a big activity session planned in a couple weeks after I sort out some MAJOR deadlines (work, life and study related… it’s just that time of year). In the meantime, I’ve been checking out Vox which looks to do the myspace thing but for adults, even really old ones who have no tech skills (but can use a browser). What’s good is they have realised at the start that they need to be able to plugin with other developers so they’re trying to make things work, unlike myspace who are now cracking down on those hoping to plug into myspace (like when they made it hard to use youtube videos). Anyway, I’ve just made an account with Vox… will update here if I make any further progress on it.

]]> http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/20/vox-blogging-for-your-grandmother-2/feed/ Choosing a Blog System http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/4/choosing-a-blog-system/ http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/4/choosing-a-blog-system/#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:32:28 +0000 catherine Blogging Systems http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/?p=4 There are a few ways of getting yourself a blog, but the main two are: 1. A Hosted Solution. This nvolves you sign up for an account on somewhere like Blogger and they give you some free space for your blog. It’s usually free and really simple. On the downside, you can’t really do much in the way of customising if you start getting ambitious. Blogger’s the most well known but there are heaps around including some that have paid upgrades.

2. Your own blog on your own host: Like hosted solutions, there is a whole heap of variety in blogging software that you host on your own server from the commercial (but free for personal use) Movable Type, to the extremely popular open source WordPress. Plus there are heaps of content management systems like Drupal and Plone that have blogging modules. Here’s a couple of review sites: opensourcecms.com and cmsmatrix.org.

I’m going with WordPress for this and the 365ideas.org blog because it’s open source and it has HUGE support which means lots of development and heaps of help available… and I really like it!

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