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hpr1667 :: How to start a Blog

How to start a blog and why you might want to

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Hosted by Rill on 2014-12-23 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: Blog, wordpress, drupal, nikola, journal.
Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format. | Comments (2)

So you want to start a blog?

Here are some of the tings to think about:

  • Why do you want to do a blog?
  • What do you want to say?
  • Who are your audience?
  • Do you mean to promote the blog to a wider audience or do you just want to write?

There are a number of popular and well known blogging engines and services, these are just some of them:

Nikola is an excellent system for creating a web-site that includes both static pages and a blog. It has been covered before on HPR and it was that show that started me using it.

Links

Here are links to a couple of my blogs:

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Comment #1 posted on 2014-12-28T00:35:17Z by davi jordan

We like Flatpress as it has so far not required that a database be used to set up like WP and the rest. Perfect for the RPi.

Comment #2 posted on 2015-01-01T04:56:43Z by Rill

T for the tip.hanks

Good to know. I haven't heard of this one.

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