BECOME A BLOGGER: FREE BLOG SITES VERSUS SELF HOSTED
Where to from here?
Once you have a name, you’ve decided between Blogger, WordPress.com and WordPress.org it’s time to start the fun stuff. It’s all about giving your site your own look and feel (think branding), creating and publishing content (you’re now a freelance writer) and building your community (time to make some awesome internet friends).
Questions?
Do you have any questions you’d like me to try and answer or find some more information for you? Just leave me a comment or contact me and I’ll do my best to get the answers for you.
If you’ve started a blog leave me a comment with your blog details and I’ll pop on over and check it out, I love finding new blogs to follow!
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This is a wonderful theme
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great post Angie – full of great advice – thanks 🙂
Feedly only showed the first page of this post, so I was all set to tell you the story of when I had to introduce myself to about 30 people as ‘warthog’ after an ill advised name choice. But then I discovered the rest of your post… And it was great.
Yes, sorry about that – for some reason the page aggregation doesn’t work as a feed. Works on bloglovin’ but everything else is cactus. Trying to find a fix for it. (It’s on my to-do list.) Will need you to elaborate on the “warthog” incident please. 🙂
Hi Sweet, great article thank you. I started up a blog just a few months ago, link above
Hello! Thanks for the link – have been over and checked it out and added you to my bloglovin’ feed so I can keep up with all your amazingness.
having had a read of this you’ve half convinced me I need to move to self hosted and use wordpress but I don’t want to lose all my work and stats so I don’t know if it’s worth it. hmmm
Hello! You can import really simply from blogger to wordpress once you’ve made the move. Not all your formatting may come across, and some images may not be transferred, but the content will come across. If you’re using google analytics (and if you’re not you should be 🙂 ) you won’t loose your stats – you just put the same code you have on your blogger blog into your wordpress blog. The brilliant thing about wordpress is there’s millions of tutorials (and video tutorials at that) available that can help you with almost anything and when that fails there’s a tonne of groups/forums that can help too. Not to mention if you put a call out on twitter for help heaps of people will volunteer advice and fixes. The internet is a most wonderful place for helping. 🙂
Angie that was great,real lesson about blogging. Just few days ago I swapt from Blogger to WordPress. So much easier than Blogger. Or maybe I was problem,what ever I tried to do it didn’t work…hm. Then I read and compere blogs and decided to switch to WordPress. It is few days now that I’m using new blog and still have things to organise but I’m happy.
Thanks Angie:)
Hi Zehrina – I’m so glad there was useful information in this post for you. I hope you love using wordpress as much as I do, it’s so great being able to customise and tweak. I loose hours playing with the site. Let me know if you need any help with anything, happy to help where I can. 🙂