I'm looking for a design and development pro who is experienced with TypePad in Six Apart's ProNet Community. I need help with designing a new Blog. I thought I would check here first if anyone needed some extra work before I send a request out.
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I'll throw this out: What is the difference between using TypePad (or other blog sites) or creating a blog on your own website? Enquiring minds want to know....
Sarah Botchick
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Dorothy, Blog sites are quick, easy, cheap (often free) and relatively painless. Putting a blog on your own site is much better since it helps create content on your site and keep your customers on your site. Also, sometimes blog sites put advertising on your blog (not always). You know, there is no such thing as a free lunch! However, putting a blog on your own site can be pricey to implement, depending on who handles your website design. I spoke with our ISP, and they quoted me $1000 to put a blog on my own site. I opted to to stick with Wordpress! Wordpress is supposed to have an option that lets you put the blog on your own site, but it requires some pretty heavy coding knowledge. I am working on that... I understand some of the coding, but not all of it. Its kind of like if you speak Spanish, and see Italian written somewhere, you can figure out some of the words but you still don't speak Italian!
Thom, just out of curosity, may ask I what made you choose TypePad? I was just now researching to see how TypePad is different than Wordpress. It does look like it has more features, according to the comparison on the TypePad website. However, if they are not features that you need, I would recommend Wordpress. It is incredibly easy to use, I am pretty sure you could figure it out yourself without hiring anyone. I had my blog up in about an hour. Of course I tweaked it a bit after, but it was still very simple.
Alot of really great professional Blogs use TypePad. I am new at it so I am following their lead.
BOSS
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felicityflowers
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Boss -did you mean Word Press? That's what I use for my blog...I've never heard of WordPad except the word processing program....
BOSS
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I want this blog. http://bklynbrideonline.com/
By the way, the first real wedding shown is one I did!
By the way, the first real wedding shown is one I did!
Thank you for this info! With freeyellow's SiteDelux web builder that I use, I have the option of having our own blog and can update the keywords, metatags, etc., myself. I'm thinking that through LinkShare, we could also have related ads on the page.
Re: Blog on your site vs blog on another domain
It's always best to have your blog on the same domain as your main site, in subfolder (like www.domain.com/blog). Second best option is having it as a subdomain (blog.domain.com). Using a hosted third-party domain is a distant third place option (myblog.wordpress.com).
The blog is most likely part of your site to attract links, so you want those links to be coming to your domain. Very important!
Your blog is also the most likely source for fresh and diverse content. If your site is mostly products and shopping cart, there isn't much interesting content. Having a blog on the site can send signals to the search engines that there is fresh content on a regular basis, thereby raising the estimation of your whole domain.
Re: blogging platforms
TypePad, Wordpress.com and Blogger/Blogspot (also FloristBlogs.com and the FlowerChat member blogs) are third-party hosted blogs. It's possible to get your own domain name, but you're still at their mercy for controlling the content, the possibility of ads being placed, etc. You also are gathering links at a site other than your money domain. Not helpful. The benefit is that there is no work involved for you in the management of the blog.
WordPress and Movable Type are the two most popular self-hosted blogging platforms (TypePad is a hosted version of Movable Type). Movable Type is the original blogging platform, and is used by the majority of Fortune 500 companies. WordPress is the cool, hip, open-source platform that's captured the majority of the hobby-bloggers and is gaining acceptance in corporate use and as a CMS.
WordPress is crazy-easy to install - little or no programming knowledge required. Their online documentation also exceeds that of Movable Type.
Ryan
It's always best to have your blog on the same domain as your main site, in subfolder (like www.domain.com/blog). Second best option is having it as a subdomain (blog.domain.com). Using a hosted third-party domain is a distant third place option (myblog.wordpress.com).
The blog is most likely part of your site to attract links, so you want those links to be coming to your domain. Very important!
Your blog is also the most likely source for fresh and diverse content. If your site is mostly products and shopping cart, there isn't much interesting content. Having a blog on the site can send signals to the search engines that there is fresh content on a regular basis, thereby raising the estimation of your whole domain.
Re: blogging platforms
TypePad, Wordpress.com and Blogger/Blogspot (also FloristBlogs.com and the FlowerChat member blogs) are third-party hosted blogs. It's possible to get your own domain name, but you're still at their mercy for controlling the content, the possibility of ads being placed, etc. You also are gathering links at a site other than your money domain. Not helpful. The benefit is that there is no work involved for you in the management of the blog.
WordPress and Movable Type are the two most popular self-hosted blogging platforms (TypePad is a hosted version of Movable Type). Movable Type is the original blogging platform, and is used by the majority of Fortune 500 companies. WordPress is the cool, hip, open-source platform that's captured the majority of the hobby-bloggers and is gaining acceptance in corporate use and as a CMS.
WordPress is crazy-easy to install - little or no programming knowledge required. Their online documentation also exceeds that of Movable Type.
Ryan
David
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One more quick note about WordPress and being easy to install. If you get a hosting account with GoDaddy.com (I think I paid like $30 for a year) it comes with decent services for installing it on your own server.
You don't have to worry about setting up the database, php, or any of the other pieces. Just click install and go from there. WordPress couldn't be much easier to use, although installing themes and addons/extensions can require some technical knowledge.
However, your original point still remains you are driving traffic to a second domain which isn't optimal. Linking and backlinking between the is an ok alternative but not the best.
You don't have to worry about setting up the database, php, or any of the other pieces. Just click install and go from there. WordPress couldn't be much easier to use, although installing themes and addons/extensions can require some technical knowledge.
However, your original point still remains you are driving traffic to a second domain which isn't optimal. Linking and backlinking between the is an ok alternative but not the best.
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