Ron has a good point. **my last paragraph is most important point** But I also want to point out that there are tons of free widgets (add-ons) for WordPress. There are lots of professional templates (called themes) with WordPress. You can also tweak or change the CSS to your hearts content. I know that many WordPress people have their blogs integrated with their sites - seamless - I don't know if they created them all in WordPress or something else. You can have other pages with WordPress also - not just a blog. You can have static pages too. WordPress has had this page concept for at least while - I don't know how long. Again, you don't need design experience to make those pages - very, very easy. I have not always gotten the help I needed from expensive paid software. WordPress people have been very generous in my experience with helping figure things out. I am a subscriber to several TypePad blogs and I don't get the comments - just the posts. With WordPress I can usually get the comments too. So, Ron, I wish I were getting the comments from my TypePad subscriptions. They seem pretty equivalent to me. What I particularly like about WordPress is that is **OPEN SOURCE**. I love that hundreds if not thousands of people are working to make it better and to keep it free. I love the whole open source (also known as free) software. It's a power to the people thing. It is quite a strong movement! Diane Clancy At 6:51 AM -0400 6/11/07, Ron Miller wrote: >When I started blogging in 2003, there were >basically two options; Typepad and Blogger. I >started using Blogger (before Google bought >them), but I didn't like the Blogger look and >feel, so I switched to Typepad. It has/had more >professional looking templates and a level of >control I wasn't getting from Blogger. I get >daily stats for instance, which I didn't get at >the time from Blogger. > >If I were starting today, I would strongly >consider WordPress, but I think for $5.00 a >month, you get a lot from Typepad including >paid, professional help. WordPress provides a >community of help, but you don't know if someone >will respond to your query and you don't know if >the answer you get is right. I've always gotten >prompt, professional responses from Typepad > >Typepad also provides a gallery of free widgets, >add-ons that are dead simple to add to your >page. They also have a variety of professional >looking templates and they give you complete >control over your blog from configuration and >monetization all in a graphical environment. If >you are a web designer, you can design your own >CSS and they recently added a page concept that >makes it easy to create a web site from your >blog (with separate pages on different topics) >without web page design experience. > >Wordpress is great, but the last time I looked >at it, I strongly disliked that it required >users to subscribe to the blog and comments >separately. > >If you want free, I would probably go with >Wordpress, but you get a lot for your money for >$5 a month from Typepad. > >Ron > > >Ron Miller >Freelance Technology Writing Since 1988 >Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine > >email: <mailto:ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com>ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com >blog: <http://byronmiller.typepad.com>http://byronmiller.typepad.com >web: <http://www.ronsmiller.com>http://www.ronsmiller.com > > > > >On Jun 10, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Diane Clancy wrote: > >>But TypePad is paid ... so why pay when you are >>atarting and can get for free? >> >>Diane >> >>At 11:36 AM -0400 6/10/07, Ron Miller wrote: >> >>> ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. >>> ** You too can help the group >>> ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. >>> ** If you did, we all thank you. >>> >>>Not to muddy the waters further for you, but I >>>wouldn't count out Typepad, which is what I >>>use for my blog. >>> >>> >>>Ron >>> >>> >>> >>>Ron Miller >>> >>>Freelance Technology Writing Since 1988 >>> >>>Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine >>> >>> >>>email: <mailto:ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com>ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com >>> >>>blog: <http://byronmiller.typepad.com>http://byronmiller.typepad.com >>> >>>web: <http://www.ronsmiller.com>http://www.ronsmiller.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>On Jun 8, 2007, at 5:59 PM, DAVID F. FARKAS wrote: >>> >>> >>>>** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. >>>> >>>>** You too can help the group >>>> >>>>** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. >>>> >>>>** If you did, we all thank you. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Hi tech wizards... >>>> >>>>Time for me to set up a few blogs to my >>>>business. One may be the basis of most of the >>>>content on one new site. >>>> >>>>The two ways I know about are Blogger and >>>>Wordpress. Blogger seems to be pretty >>>>transparent and easy to set up. Wordpress, I >>>>assume, has a learning curve and it needs to >>>>be setup on my host's server. >>>> >>>>I'd love some input from experienced web >>>>wizards and bloggers on pros, cons, best for >>>>a particular purpose, etc. >>>> >>>>Thanx so much. >>>>David >>>> >>>>'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' >>>>Snowmen Fall from Heaven Unassembled >>>>'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' >>>>"A diamond is just a lump of coal that has >>>>been under enormous pressure for a >>>>long time. 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