All right. We already chose a niche. We know what topic we are going to write about. We also know how to pick a great domain name and how to set up web hosting. In this part of series about blogging we will discuss a publishing system.
It’s really important to choose the right one, because your success depends on it. In competition of many publishing systems I recommend WordPress as the best solution for you. Many of my sites (including this blog) are powered by this platform and I’m 100% satisfied with this free solution.
You can also try another system. Some of them are great too; maybe you’ll like some other one.
- Joomla!
- Blogger (online solution)
- Blog Engine
- Serendipity
- Movable Type
- Dotclear
- Nucleus CMS
- Life Type
- Boast Machine
- Text Pattern
- b2evolution
- Eggblog
- Zomplog
- Subtext
- TriptychBlog
- Presstopia Blog
The main reason why I recommend WordPress is (beside the fact I love it) offered support and easy solution that can be installed in a few seconds (I’ll show this later). On official page you can see a lot of professional programmers cooperating together, tons of plug-ins and themes ready to download and much more. If you hear about WordPress for the fist time I recommend visiting WordPres.org and reading about this amazing project.
I don’t force you to use this publishing system, but it works well for me and I want you to be successful and offer you a great solution so you can feel comfortable in blogging. Later in my next posts you will discover the biggest advantages of WordPress. For example in next article I will show you how to install and prepare this publishing system just in a second using DreamHost hosting! You don’t have to deal with MySQL, copying files on FTP, removing and editing HTML code- just click the button.
