Students often start out blogging using free platforms which is fine. In many ways it is ideal because it is possible to try out blogging and find out if its for them, then the decision made about what platform to use is made in an informed manner. Over the next few weeks I will be gathering together links on how to decide which blogging platform to use as I will speaking about it towards the end of semester.
Over on Build a Better Blog there is a discussion about using Blogger. Choice of blog platforms is an important decision and worth a little research. Check out Blogger: Should You Use it?
Personally I am a WordPress fan and you can get a free WordPress blog For a free service there is excellent support, heaps of features , lots of themes to choose from, you can import an old blog easily if that blog platform allows exports and you can create extra pages.
April 28, 2007 at 4:08 pm
28/04/2007 Dweeb Scream
I installed the internet on my computer the other day. As I feared, a distant hand reached into my computer and started rearranging my (?) data the contents of my hard drive. My dodgy copies of other people’s CD’s now have titles and indexes, so big brother now knows exactly what’s on my computer as far as my (?) music is concerned. What next? It wants to download all these program extensions, security devices, and who knows what else. This computer now has a number of different masters, and it will never have to wait upon my instructions anymore, it has become independent and will now start shaping me. New icons have appeared. They jump out at me and take up new spaces on my (?) screen, and I can’t make them go away. Yahoo is my new best friend, my home page. How did that choice happen?
April 29, 2007 at 1:21 am
Hi Frank - you made me smile thinking of things jumping out at you nd your battle at controling your new computer.