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What Blog Software?

Poll: What Blog Software? (29 member(s) have cast votes)

What Blog Software?

  1. Wordpress / Wordpress.org (20 votes [68.97%])

    Percentage of vote: 68.97%

  2. Movable type (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  3. Blogger (1 votes [3.45%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.45%

  4. Home Built (5 votes [17.24%])

    Percentage of vote: 17.24%

  5. Other? (3 votes [10.34%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.34%

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#1 User is offline   Simon Icon

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  Posted 14 February 2008 - 10:29 AM

What Blog Software?

This post has been edited by Simon: 14 February 2008 - 10:29 AM

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#2 User is offline   Blake121 Icon

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Posted 14 February 2008 - 10:30 AM

Home built all the way
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#3 User is offline   Simon Icon

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Posted 14 February 2008 - 10:30 AM

Wordpress for me all the way, so easy to seo!
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Posted 14 February 2008 - 10:31 AM

Wordpress as I cant code my own lol.
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Posted 14 February 2008 - 10:34 AM

View PostDaniel, on Feb 14 2008, 11:31 AM, said:

Wordpress as I cant code my own lol.


What you spose to say is i don't have the time to code one! lol
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Posted 14 February 2008 - 10:41 AM

worpress here too. I have half a home built one but there's the old time issue getting in the way again . . . ;)
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Posted 14 February 2008 - 10:42 AM

I built my own and I'm pretty proud of it!
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Posted 14 February 2008 - 04:30 PM

Wordpress is great :D I haven't tried any others as I have never seen the need to!
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Posted 14 February 2008 - 04:32 PM

I would say build my own because I feel that you have more control over things and if something breaks (you should in theory) know how to fix it. It is also easier to add onto it. Plus you can customize it to your hearts content.
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Posted 14 February 2008 - 05:14 PM

Wordpress for sure, is very good with SEO and high rankings.
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Posted 14 February 2008 - 05:45 PM

View PostMarc, on Feb 14 2008, 05:32 PM, said:

I would say build my own because I feel that you have more control over things and if something breaks (you should in theory) know how to fix it. It is also easier to add onto it. Plus you can customize it to your hearts content.


I find there is plenty of plugins out there to be sorted/lazy.
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Posted 15 February 2008 - 12:24 AM

I say wordpress.
It is extremely easy to use! So if your primary goal is to have the blog instead of building your own from scratch, then wordpress is for you!
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Posted 15 February 2008 - 03:46 AM

Also if you use something like Wordpress you get in to googles blog search and technorati etc.
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Posted 15 February 2008 - 04:26 AM

Wordpress, like Joomla, Mambo, Xoops etc are so massively bloated for normal sized sites.

You really should check out Website Baker, it is by far the most superior CMS out there, which is simple and powerful. It is a joy to work with!

At the moment my site is WP lol, but I am redesigning it soon with Website Baker in mind!
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Posted 15 February 2008 - 04:53 AM

Wp at the mo, but may be changing to upskill myself
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Posted 15 February 2008 - 06:26 AM

View Postcraig, on Feb 15 2008, 05:26 AM, said:

You really should check out Website Baker, it is by far the most superior CMS out there, which is simple and powerful. It is a joy to work with!


I Tried the Open source cms demo of that, and was not all that impressed.

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Posted 15 February 2008 - 06:34 AM

I would go with Wordpress also although I haven't tried anything else much. Wordpress seemed very easy to use yet very powerfull and it wasn't hard to do a custom template for it either so I needed one now, I would choose Wordpress.
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Posted 15 February 2008 - 06:34 AM

View PostSimon, on Feb 15 2008, 11:26 AM, said:

I Tried the Open source cms demo of that, and was not all that impressed.

Simon


What was it you didn't like about it? I find it extremely flexible, and create most of my sites with it!

Craig :)
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Posted 15 February 2008 - 06:38 AM

View Postcraig, on Feb 15 2008, 06:34 AM, said:

What was it you didn't like about it? I find it extremely flexible, and create most of my sites with it!

Craig :)


The unfamiliar lol

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Posted 15 February 2008 - 06:41 AM

View PostSimon, on Feb 15 2008, 11:38 AM, said:

The unfamiliar lol

Simon


I urge you to play around with it! :P Go on, don't be a WP sheep! :P
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