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Joe & Sally like WordPress
I'm jumping ahead a bit here, but I thought I'd go ahead and mention my favorite blogging platform: WordPress. WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL, so you will need a hosting plan for your site that supports both these systems, but WordPress itself is free, highly customizable, and prides itself on it's famous 5 minute installation. Even better, there is a very active community behind the product and a lot of WordPress users are Mac OS X-savvy.There are a slew of available templates for WordPress, and if you want to design your own template, then you'll probably be interested in dissecting one of the default themes. If you've been running your blog on Blogger and want to try to switch to WordPress, there's a tutorial on how to accomplish this. Some people have adapted WordPress as a personal information manager, and it is possible to create a local installation on your Mac to testflight changes before updating the publicly hosted version. I run my personal site on WordPress and absolutely love it. Give it a shot.
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Christian del Rosario said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
WordPress is awesome for Mac users! At the end of February I was looking for something to make my New England surfng website easier to update. I knew nothing about bloging, PHP or any of that jazz and with WordPress I had a blog up and running on the server I use in less then ten minutes! It took a few more weeks of fooling around with CSS and PHP to dial in a theme to match my html site but I did it! Check it out http://www.nesurfari.com/ It's easy to update from any computer anywhere and it's enabled me to post whenever I feel like it. I was so happy with WordPress that I searched out and found the PHP based Coppermine to use for my galleries.
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Matt Schinckel said 5:26AM on 7-01-2005
There is a free WordPress server: http://www.blogsome.com
I uses WordPress Mu, but is totally free.
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