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Team Murc


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Are you blogging? Do you have a home page?

I am looking for information on who you use or where you go to host your home page and blog. I am clueless on how this works but would like to get something set up. Oh and I would prefer a free service :) is that realistic?

Thanks to all!

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Mike



-- Edited by Team Murc on Monday 27th of December 2010 10:48:13 AM

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mktobob


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I use blogspot.com and am very happy with it.  It is free and works fine for me.  I don't need much horsepower for my site and it suites me fine.

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tnsauerkraut


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I also use blogspot and am very happy with it. Easy to use, very popular and FREE!

http://spendingmytyme.blogspot.com

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Terry and Jo


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Mike,

I don't know if you have read a previous thread that I started about bloggers and a request.  In it, I discussed with others about what was a good blog host.  You might want to read through it.  One of the poster even provided a link to a Blogger site that gives quite a bit of information.

However, it may not answer all your questions.

Good luck.  I'm still considering starting one myself.  Check out the previous thread at this link:

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=91511&p=3&topicID=39862356

Terry

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Monday 27th of December 2010 02:27:14 PM

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Froggi


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I think the simplest to use for novices is definitely Blogger (blogspot). With the addition of "pages", you can make it look and act more like a traditional website (basic) and still have your blog.

Right now I have ten blogs on blogger of which five are active, and one inactive using WordPress.


-- Edited by Froggi on Monday 27th of December 2010 06:18:09 PM

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I also use blogger - and I write my blogs using LiveWriter, which is also a free download.

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Rockinmotion


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We are going to use a plan at http://hoop.la. We've used the company to host our forum for years and they're great to deal with...incredible tech support. Although the page you'll see focuses on the forum aspect, you can use only the modules you want and can have your main page be just a blog (with Twitter feed included if desired).

What we really like about it us the ability to post unlimited photos and videos (even on the free plan). It may be more powerful a program than some people want, but it gives a lot of options.

The home page does not currently support custom widgets, but that's coming soon.

I'm currently working on (and playing around with) our new site and manually importing old blog posts and forum stuff from our previous site, but this will show you some of the options available. http://marklindsay.hoop.la

Deb

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Team Murc


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Thanks to everyone! I appreciate all the helpful advice and comments.
I guess I have more homework to do but that is fine it's winter and I have extra time.

Win the day!
Mike

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GlendaLaine


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I started a "camping blog" a couple of years ago, but have become much more active in "expanding" it as well as reading many other RV blogs. So I made a blog post of what programs I use and how I go about creating posts when we're traveling/camping. You can read about what works well for me at: http://casitaescapes.blogspot.com/search/label/Start%20Your%20Own%20Blog . It's fun and entertaining once you get past the concern about putting your life out there on the internet. Hope this helps.

Glenda

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Blars


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I rent a VPS (virtual private server) running Debian and use apache and ikiwiki for my blog. Not something I recomend for someone not familar with Linux. The entire blog is in a git repository, and a copy is on one of my home systems. So I don't have to worry about a "free" site discontinuing the service, and if my VPS server goes out of business I can move to another server pretty easily.

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Blogger is very easy to learn and use.  I've been really happy with it!  We're not on the road yet -- still waiting for the house to sell -- but I try to post some of our more interesting days at home, as well as all of our RV travels.

Check out our blog at the link below!

-- Edited by Camper_Boy on Friday 31st of December 2010 07:07:54 PM

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