Comments on: Which Blogging Platform is Best?

By: zamri79

zamri79 — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:31:41 +0000

i think if a free blog, i go to blogger. Why? Because its easy to manage. you can change your template and look and feel. Even Blogger also give you free image hosting. So its very pleased to use Blogger especially new bloggerian like me.

By: Eric Thom

Eric Thom — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 05:08:20 +0000

Maybe I should mention or for that matter bring to lite a liitle company called MyST-Technolgy who’s platform bar none is the finest on the planet for just about under sun.
Without going into mass detail just visit the blogsite, yes thats blogsite not blog @ http://www.myst-technology.com and try wrapping your haed around it, our buddy tris Hussey did.

By: Nick Barrett

Nick Barrett — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:50:11 +0000

Wordpress,all the way, its easy to use, loads of great themes and very simple set up.

By: Paul -V-

Paul -V- — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:14:07 +0000

I use Drupal. It might be a little more effort up-front… but it’s so flexible that you will quickly be rewarded as your site matures. It is also very secure and elegant code. (When I started with Drupal I knew no CSS or php. I have been learning as I go along.)

Another factor: Google loves Drupal. Drupal’s unique taxonomy makes the it’s job easier.

Your first CMS is a bit like getting married. Once you chose one, you are going to spend a lot of time with it.

Study them carefully, they all have pros and cons. Visit:

http://www.opensourcecms.com

and compare.

By: leu

leu — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:36:05 +0000

As i have similar sites, i started some time ago with Expression Engine. Some weeks ago i created a site agreggator with Wordpress and i was really surprised. Now i’m thinking about creating my new (old) Techblog with Wordpress.

By: grandMasterKrust

grandMasterKrust — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:14:32 +0000

I have worked with wordpress and Moveable type and its a close race – i use MT for a commercial blog – and it does the job….but

If you not to clued on coding and customisation – i recommend wordpress – the themes allow easier styling, upgrading is a breeze as is the installation – and an active community and of course its OS….

Go with Wordpress you won’t be disappointed. Mt won’t fail you but customisation is a little trickier

By: marcel

marcel — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:55:36 +0000

see http://drupal.org

By: marcel

marcel — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:54:21 +0000

Drupal just upgraded to 4.6
It can handle multiple blogs/websites on one codebase now…

By: DebWire

DebWire — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:03:56 +0000

I highly recommend Wordpress. I’ve been using it for several years now. It’s latest 1.5 version puts it far ahead of any of the others, imho. And you definitely cannot beat the price and licensing.

By: Anil

Anil — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:31:52 +0000

I work for the company that makes Movable Type, but it’s probably worth mentioning that there’s our hosting service TypePad, built on the same engine, or you can also get Movable Type preinstalled from a number of web hosting partners if you don’t want to deal with the technical details yourself.

By: david

david — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:29:27 +0000

I’m looking at alternative blogging server applications to develop a commercial service to host photo, audio and video bloggs for a a high volume of users. We want to provide an upload or submision application for mobile devices(and desktops) that can talk to the blog and provide the ability for the mobile user to subscribe to other users blogs and download that content to the mobile device.

Does anyone know of a product that does this already or perhaps recommend a solution that could be adapted to do so. Is Wordpress capable or is MT a more likely bet.

Any ideas would be greatfully received.

By: dirvish

dirvish — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:58:07 +0000

For a (free) hosted solution I use IlohaBlog – http://ilohablog.com

On my own server I run WordPress – http://wordpress.org

I’ve tried Blogger, Pivot, Bloxsom, and a few others and didn’t like them as much.

By: Oto

Oto — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:20:58 +0000

We are using WordPress with a great success. It is incredibly flexible and can be setup to handle much more than just your regular blogging. Check out the Portfolio section on our Website and you will see what I mean. The entire content management is setup using the WordPress with a few plugins activated.

By: Jack Swift

Jack Swift — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:46:54 +0000

I like Expression Engine a lot. I’m playing around with WordPress now and it does seem very friendly, but I’ve been really spoiled by EE.

By: BobbyMasteria

BobbyMasteria — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:08:57 +0000

There is also Nucleus and pLog.

By: Lisa V.

Lisa V. — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:01:54 +0000

I use b2evolution (http://b2evolution.net/) for my blogs and I’ve been very satisified with all of it’s features. Other than a smaller blog system that I programmed myself, I haven’t used any of the other blog programs so I can’t compare them for you. b2evolution is free, open source, and every time I’ve had a question or customization question I’ve been able to find an answer in their message board forums.

By: Uffe

Uffe — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:54:52 +0000

I’m hosted on a Microsoft platform because I do .NET programming for a living, so all the packages that takes advantage of Apache features (such as mod_rewrite) are pretty much useless to me.

So I created my own little publishing platform (.NET and MySQL) which enables me to do the exact same things I would like any other blogging package to do, such as SE friendly urls to my posts and archives which is extremely important to me. I have yet to come across a .NET based blog platform that has this feature (at least without the need for special ISAPI filters to be installed on the host machine).

So home grown has always been the way to go for me. More flexible and much, much more power. I realize not all are as fortunate as me, but if none of the standard packages out there doesn’t satisfy your needs and you know someone who’d be able to build a custom platform for you, do consider doing so.

By: Broke

Broke — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:31:35 +0000

I’m really liking Wordpress, though I haven’t any real experience with other bloggin platforms. I chose it because it was free, runs on php & MySQL (coz I know a little bit about it), loads of features built in and a large user community that offer plenty of (free) modifications to suit various needs.

If I knew nothing about html/php/mysql I probably would have started with blogger or something similar that requires no specific knowledge to install and change layouts etc

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 04:11:51 +0000

Like everything… “You get what you pay for…”

Check out Expression Engine by pMachine at http://www.pmachine.com

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 03:20:31 +0000

Great discussion guys – thanks for your thoughts so far. I’ve been thinking of making the great leap forward from Blogger to my own domain. It seems as though for my purposes and level of technological knowledge WordPress may be the way to go. MoveableType still intrigues however…