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Com, net or blog?

General Discussion
#1

OK, geeks (and you know who you are), if one wished to speak his piece in public–on a regular basis–which route would he take? I know next to nada about the various ??? portals??? although I have blogged for our company site, a “com.”

I Googled “Go Daddy,” and they have various packages in both spheres (domain names and blogs), but I don’t know the difference. I guess I wanta know which one I should get, if I decide I need the aggravation of starting my own business.

BTW, this is not for my model train hobby (how I built my layout, the neat trains I own, etc). Rather, it would be a business site in the sense that I would address whatever my subject is on (hopefully) an ongoing basis. And while I’m prepared to absorb the cost–up to a point–I would imagine that if my “site” went viral, or at least became mildly contagious, adverstisers might throw some coin my way so they could plug in their pop-ups, etc.

Sooo…?

#2

Domain names are cheap. Dot com for sure, as it is the most popular. I would pick up the same name in .net also.
If you are doing a blog, for around $10 a year, you may as well grab Dot blog too :wink:
Ralph

#3

Joe,

I think you are confusing domain ownership (.com, .net, .org, etc) with a blog web page. Purchasing a domain is both easy and cheap, but someone must do the web page programming to generate the web site. My club purchased the domain ‘ecgrc.com’. I am the web master and do all the programming for the pages. Our site is simple and I only use basic HTML (the root language the internet understands) with some CSS (a bit higher level language). I do not use any of the database driven, pearl, php, etc. languages because I never had a need to learn them, and for our site I don’t need them.

On the other hand, this site is done very well, by a professional programmer (I am a hacker/slasher) and uses the latest technology to provide us the best experience he can. Congrats Bob.

I am not real familiar with blogs, but I believe they are a single (or possibly multiple) web page(s) with a user interface allowing the blog owner/viewer the ability to easily add content without having to learn the language(s) necessary to program web pages. I hope Bob will chime in and correct me if I am too far off the mark.

Bob C.

#4

perhaps the easiest way would be to get one of those free forums, and just restrict it to one writer.(yourself)
i did just that before i learned how to put stuff into html websites.

#5

If I wanted to run a blog, Id get one on Blogger, or Wordpress, and do it that way. No sense in buying a domain and all the overhead that goes with it if you dont really need it.

#6

I use Wordpress, it gives me ‘traditional’ pages and blogs. It is easy to use and install and requires minimal web design experience.

I have purchased a .co.uk domain (it happened to be the cheapest I could find) and host the site myself.

Alec

#7
Korm Kormsen said:
perhaps the easiest way would be to get one of those free forums, and just restrict it to one writer.(yourself) i did just that before i learned how to put stuff into html websites.
Korm,

That is an absolutely splendid idea. :slight_smile: :smiley: :lol:

#8

Once again, thanks gang.

#9

I’ve got a web page via my ISP, though I’ve not updated it in what seems like decades (okay, 7 years and counting). Part of that is the software I used to use won’t run on my new 'puter, and the software I have for web design has a very steep learning curve. Instead, I’ve switched to a blog via Blogspot.com. It’s simple to use, and I can update it whenever I want to. It’s not as organized as a web page, more of a running dialog than anything else, but it’s definitely high on the “low maintenance” end of things.

Later,

K

#10
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Korm Kormsen said:
perhaps the easiest way would be to get one of those free forums, and just restrict it to one writer.(yourself) i did just that before i learned how to put stuff into html websites.
Korm,

That is an absolutely splendid idea. :slight_smile: :smiley: :lol:


well, i like the KISS way

http://kormsen.ko.funpic.de/forum/index.php

#11
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Instead, I've switched to a blog via Blogspot.com. It's simple to use, and I can update it whenever I want to.
Joe,

I develop websites for real estate agents, and I have a few blogs around. Blogspot, as mentioned by Kevin, is a Google product and it is free, so the price is right!

I have 2 or 3 websites, also free, on Google Sites (e.g. http://www.ebt-in-fn3.info/ .) I often buy a URL (site name) for $0.99 [$9 when it renews, perhaps] from GoDaddy and point it to my Google site, as I did with ebt-in-fn3. Google sites are easy to build, as they give you the online tools, plus they will ‘monetarixze’ it with your approval by putting ads on it. If anyone clicks through, you get money. They also offer templates, calendars, photo slideshows, and other stuff you can incorporate very easily.

I also have several sites on GoDaddy and Aplus/Deluxe, where we bought the URL and the hosted web space - they give us 200MB or so of storage to put pages. It requires a lot more work to keep it populated and up to date, plus it costs $50-100 /year. It usually costs them $500 to get the site set up and running.

#12

Thanks again. Wheels in my brain are turning…