I’ve been in the blogging industry for about two years now and I haven’t always been able to design. I’ve usedthemes,ready-made CSS and have sometimes had help but I’ve never written about a great tool out there which hosts and creates a platform to use for your own website or blog that helps you include a discussion board all under one roof! The service I’m talking about is Squarespace.

Squarespace is a CMS in itself that hosts itself and it’s easy on the wallet. All you do is pay a monthly fee of $8 if you want to use a ‘.squarespace.com‘ domain or $14 and up if you want to use your own domain name such as ‘davesjournal.com‘. All plans include hosting, full access to help guides and customer support as well as GB’s of storage and bandwidth per month. Squarespace was created in 2008 by Anthony Casalena and since then many haven’t looked back. Continue reading for your own enjoyment →

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Blogging is huge nowadays, and nearly everyone has some form of presence on the internet, whether it just be onFaceBook or Twitter, or even a full blown blog or website. If you would like a blog or website, but you really don’t think you know how to make one from scratch, then WordPress is a great solution. There are two forms of WordPress; WordPress.com and WordPress.org.

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Presumably there are more blogs than websites now and more creators of websites are going for CMS(or Content Management System software) for their websites but they are also likely to use that software to help incorporate a blog into their website. More importantly, website owners are going towards CMS’s to install onto their web hosting, such as WordPress or Joomla but don’t look at creating a static website for example a collection of .html files in folders for extentions, like Lisa Irby’s website, 2CreateAWebsite, which I have featured on BlogPressive before.
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VPS for WordPress

by Jonny Rowntree on August 31, 2010 in Blogging

It’s the next generation of blogging and you’ll see more blogs than actual websites now. Whether you’re running ablog or website, you need to pick and make sure your hosting package suits the website you’re running and packs enough resources in order for you to run your website and make sure people can view it.

However, many make the same mistake and find out the hard way. Continue reading for your own enjoyment →

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