Bloggin'

CartiCarti Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18099Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">I need some help D;</div> Hiya guys.

During my ever-boring math class, i was thinking about creating a blog site. Ya know.. an internet journal to blog down my thoughts and any opinion in whats happening in our society as we see it today.

But to do this, i'd need a site of course but shall i;

1) Create the site myself.. perhaps.. but [confession] i havent got <b>any</b> webmaking experience what so ever[/confession]. What should i do? learn HTML / PSP? Hire someone to do it?

2) Register on livejournal / another blog site. I'd rather have the site configured and laid out to the standards i'd like, and not to how they like it to be. Shall i just got with a blogger hosting service?

Anyway.. i'm interested in your ideas or testimonials if you actually have a blog hosted at livejournal and would like to tell me if its a good idea or sticking to option 1.


Carty.

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  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    see if your isp gives you some amount of web space included with your service. If so, I'd learn XHTML and CSS and go with that. Otherwise, if its just a personal thing and doesn't really need to appear professional, go with one of the countless services for it around the web.
  • ZeroByteZeroByte Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3057Members
    Livejournal... nooooo. It's got a pretty meh reputation. That's not to say it's utterly stupid, just that a lot of bad examples of blogs can be found on LJ.

    Personally, I use <a href='http://www.blogger.com' target='_blank'>blogger</a>. Template-wise, it's pretty okay, nice collection of designs. I like it more because of it's flexibility though, and how it's template system is nicely centralized. Also, if your ISP gives you an FTP account, you can use blogger to upload your pages into that space.

    The negatives of it mainly are the commenting system requires users to register (although annonymous posting is there) and the blogger bar they put on your blog.

    Another blog hosting service I could pimp would be <a href='http://danwa.net/' target='_blank'>Danwa</a>. Not very well know, but it's a friends so I'm gonna pimp it anyway!

    Negatives, it doesn't have any other templates than the preset one, although you can change the design quite considerably. The address of your blog also isn't the best since it's set to a subdirectory of danwa.net.

    Plus points, you get a small amount of space to upload images for your blog's layout or just for posting images. It also has a relatively small community in it, which is NOT retarded. A very big plus point I would say <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Anyway, pimping my own blog: <a href='http://chemikhazi.blogspot.com' target='_blank'><thought /></a>. It's done with XHTML and CSS goodness, with hot swappable stylesheets, which quite frankly are the win. Uhm, just ignore the current angsty content I have up currently.
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Just register some place, it's not worth the money. Either way, no one's going to read it.
  • FamFam Diaper-Wearing Dog On A Ball Join Date: 2002-02-17 Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I would heartily recommend <a href='http://www.blogger.com' target='_blank'>Blogger</a>. It has become rather slick since it got bought by google.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->1) Create the site myself.. perhaps.. but [confession] i havent got <b>any</b> webmaking experience what so ever[/confession]. What should i do? learn HTML / PSP?
    Hire someone to do it?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Blogger supplies some (very good) default templates, designed at coded by well known HTML/CSS gurus, which will start you off. You don't need anything other than a site with FTP access (You can also sign up for Blogspot, which you dont even need any webspace of your own). If you wish to reseign your site, I would recommed using a default Blogger template, but altering the stylesheet to suit your purpose.

    Livejournal tends to have a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to blogging. A lot of the stuff on LJ is very emo and with 4 shades of bad design thrown in for taste. And 4 shades of screaming kiddies as a garnish.

    <a href='http://www.typepad.com' target='_blank'>Typepad</a> is very very good, but it also costs money.
  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    I also hear good things about <a href='http://www.modblog.com/' target='_blank'>modblog</a>.
  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    Bah, what's with blog sites? Who has an interesting enough life to read about?

    I bet I've got cool introspective and humanitarian ideas going around in side my head but I don't think they're sufficient to be written down so that people will read them.



    Of course, let's all keep in mind that the point of writing should not be to get others to read it. But that being the case, why bother throwing them out for other people to read? Couldn't you just as easily keep a typed journal on your computer?


    Or maybe we should just all throw out our blogs and then we could read who evers we think would be interesting! [of course, that would be a thread like "READ MY BLOG AT www.MYBLOG.com ...which no one wants to do.]


    My suggestion: just write stuff in cool word documents and then just throw out an occasionally interesting story onto the OT forums like most people around here. It has definite benefits:


    -Companies don't gain rights to your written materials (although I'm sure there are some that wont anyway).

    -You don't need to design anything...although making that all important, "Which font will I use?!" choice can be deadly.

    -You don't corrupt the internet with your bad ideas; and you keep your good ideas locked away in a more close knit familial type feel.

    -You don't need to use the retarded word that is 'Blog' .

    -You show angsty teenage girls that " 'Brad doesn't care that you're writing about him' in some lost corner of the internet, hidden from mankind like the customs of ancient Indus Valley civilizations, trying to spout forth your emotions like some kind of ethereal angst fountain - to a group of people that don't care about you, but want you to care about them." Because most people are self-serving bastards like that [although, we try not to be...well, some of us]...something like that, anyway.


    ...well, that's all my real points anyway. So, what's wrong with just throwing the stuff in an MSWord log? You can call it a Mwog!
  • Dorian_GrayDorian_Gray Join Date: 2004-02-15 Member: 26581Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Fam+Sep 27 2004, 05:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fam @ Sep 27 2004, 05:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I would heartily recommend <a href='http://www.blogger.com' target='_blank'>Blogger</a>. It has become rather slick since it got bought by google.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->1) Create the site myself.. perhaps.. but [confession] i havent got <b>any</b> webmaking experience what so ever[/confession]. What should i do? learn HTML / PSP?
    Hire someone to do it?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Blogger supplies some (very good) default templates, designed at coded by well known HTML/CSS gurus, which will start you off. You don't need anything other than a site with FTP access (You can also sign up for Blogspot, which you dont even need any webspace of your own). If you wish to reseign your site, I would recommed using a default Blogger template, but altering the stylesheet to suit your purpose.

    Livejournal tends to have a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to blogging. A lot of the stuff on LJ is very emo and with 4 shades of bad design thrown in for taste. And 4 shades of screaming kiddies as a garnish.

    <a href='http://www.typepad.com' target='_blank'>Typepad</a> is very very good, but it also costs money. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You can get MT 3.0, or one of the old versions and run it on your own server (need lots of Perl modules, so a lot of hosting companies can't run it). Thats my favourite for publishing of any kind.

    Not sure about blogger/livejournal, since I don't have a blog (I just use MT for news posts on sites, etc)
  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-UltimaGecko+Sep 27 2004, 08:08 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (UltimaGecko @ Sep 27 2004, 08:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Bah, what's with blog sites? Who has an interesting enough life to read about? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Who? THE FACE! THAT'S WHO!

    <a href='http://www.livejournal.com/users/x_stickman/' target='_blank'>http://www.livejournal.com/users/x_stickman/</a>
  • POOP_AkiraPOOP_Akira Join Date: 2003-11-23 Member: 23468Members
    I got into blogging just recently. Fun.

    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    This site is pretty good, the free version is great too, so dont feel the ned to pay.

    www.xanga.com

    Mine: <a href='http://www.xanga.com/private/home.aspx' target='_blank'>http://www.xanga.com/private/home.aspx</a> Filled with random bits of comedy.
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    Slightly off topic...

    Why do people blog anyway?

    I mean, why do people think someone is actually reading it, besides maybe a few friends or your mother? I've always wondered this...
  • POOP_AkiraPOOP_Akira Join Date: 2003-11-23 Member: 23468Members
    A friend got me into it, its kinda fun...
    Its something where in a while from now you could look back on and say "Oh yeah...".

    But ive found it amusing even though only one person *I know of* reads it.
  • CartiCarti Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18099Members, Constellation
    I'm going to try blogger.

    Thanks guys <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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