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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:26:42 +0000

[...] web writer for pay, it’s naturally smart to start a travel-minded blog. If you’re not sure which platform to choose I’d start with Wordpress. 90% of my clients use Wordpress. I’ve had a few use TypePad, [...]

By: marco

marco — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:50:29 +0000

I personally found that b2evolution v2 was the most advanced for pro bloggers (integrated stats, SEO, analytics, multiple blogs, workflow…)

By: Anthony StClair

Anthony StClair — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:11:14 +0000

I cut my teeth on Typepad, and still use it, but I know I’m also underutilizing it – especially given the price tag.

I recently started running another blog with Wordpress, and have been loving it. It is very easy to use and customize, and since you gain the flexibility of choosing a host, you have more control over cost.

By: Lea

Lea — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:11:58 +0000

As a blogger myself I’ve used blogger, Typepad, Moveable Type and Wordpress.org. As a relative novice, I totally loved Typepad but have now become a WP convert because of it’s flexibility and customisability which I found simpler than messing around with advanced templates in Typepad.

As someone who runs a company setting up blogs for coaches & consultants, we usually also steer people towards Wordpress with Typepad in second place…but only if they use Bluehost (as you suggested) for the WP hosting (or other recommended-by-WP service) otherwise the WP install can be a total nightmare and we’ve had to bail many a client out in this area!

By: Mariella

Mariella — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:26:38 +0000

I’ve used a variety of platforms: Blogger WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, Joomla, and even the old-skool platforms such as LiveJournal and Xanga, which, IMO, are more for the personal type blogs. My vote goes to WordPress for its easy-to-use interface. It took me only about 5 minutes to figure out everything I have to know to be able to use it. Even learning how to tweak the backend was easy. A month after using it, I was already able to create 4 blogs with customized templates all on my own.

By: neil

neil — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:21:22 +0000

A standalone install of Wordpress (wordpress.org) is the way to go as it is simply the best supported and developed blog application available. I run multiple wordpress sites – both personally and professionally – and the options are endless, it is very solid and reliable, and you take full control over your blog.

Most good web hosts these days offer simple, one-click installs of Wordpress (in addition to many other applications), so installing for the non technical should never be an issue.

By: ShayinSC

ShayinSC — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:06:10 +0000

I have 5 blogs on Blogger – I love Blogger.

I have found it very easy to work with and it was very user – friendly right from the start. )

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:02:58 +0000

I’ve used LiveJournal, Blogger, WP dot org and dot com, Movable Type, Typepad among others. I’ve also used Joomla CMS as a type of blog, but it’s overkill.

I ended up taking a very basic theme for Wordpress and stripping it down completely. Then I embedded that inside a Joomla page via a “wrapper”, and viola! I have WP working nicely inside of Joomla!

Aside from making a smooth interface between WP and Joomla, it also works very well as a stand alone (or embedded) SEO only blog!

By: Sonya

Sonya — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:55:16 +0000

I am a rather casual blogger who, frankly, can’t be arsed to buy a domain name, and I wasn’t overly impressed with WordPress’s free options, so I use blogger, and it’s worked fine for me so far. I also have a livejournal, which I use as a more personal, my-daily-life journal, and I like that a lot for the social-networking aspects — I’ve made a lot of great friends on livejournal! There definitely are some semi-professional blogs on LJ, but it’s really more of a chatty site.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:26:42 +0000

I love both Blogger (for quick, no-brainer posting) and WordPress (for a more slick blog), but have had terrible experiences with Moveable Type. Maybe it was because I was using it for a client’s blog, and the client’s instructions were minimal at best, so I got frustrated with it pretty quickly. There’s my 2 cents!