Get your blog up and running and the first post

There is a huge amount of blog software to choose from, and the choice can seem hard.

I have been using Simple PHP Blog and Wordpress.

I am running simple php blog on blog.arpa.no, which is my kind of personal random blog where I blog about things that shakes in the news or things that I am geeking with.

And I am running wordpress here, and also on the project that you guys are following on gho.no, and have started to take a liking to wordpress.

It have a bunch of plugin modules to make your life easier, and seems very very flexible with regards to design and everything else surrounding it.
There is also a large number of people using it now, so that’s always a reason for choosing something.

Because where there are users there are creative minds, and also a lot of nice extentions.
Wordpress have plugins to make your adsense life easier, plugins for statistics, anti-spam plugins, etc.
Installing wordpress is done really really easy, and I will certainly continue using that.

The pros for using simplephpblog must be that it is really simple, it uses flat files and does not require a database.
So if you are hosting your blog somewhere without sql access, then sphpblog might prove right for you.

I discussed hosting in the last post, but if you mind reading back then dreamhost.com was the better choice.

Just remember to use the discount code ‘FIRSTDOLLAR’ to get $50 off your first year, clicking the above link will have it prefilled for you.

Now just post ahead and start writing interesting posts, maybe you’ll get a reader or two!