Milena Velba Jansen Milking

Create a blog, what platform to choose?

To create a blog you are offered two options: either you care to host your blog on the server of your choice, either you go for hosting platforms.

1-Create and host your blog: 2 software connected

Dotclear is a blogging software extremely popular and is designed to be simple to use while offering a very extensive set of features that will make your Blog like no other. Numerous extensions will delight the creative bloggers. It requires PHP 5 and a database to work to work, these services are provided by most hosts.

Wordpress is the direct competitor Dotclear. The improvements are at the scoreboard. It is easy to switch between WYSIWYG editing in the HTML editor, convenient to insert a line of code. An automatic backup system is proposed. It requires MySQL version 4 or higher.

2 - Choose a platform Free accommodation: 3 recommendations

Blogger is a platform for creating blogs recognized worldwide. It is a subsidiary of the famous search engine Google. Simple to use and practical features with much more sophisticated personalization, change templates, labels, change the HTML code ...

Over-Blog: Launched in mid-2004, the platform identifies early 2007 almost 500,000 blogs hosted . It provides a large number of bloggers option administration and customization such as choice of graphical themes. Overblog reserves the right to place banner advertising on blogs with a large audience.

Canalblog : This is a very comprehensive and intuitive platform that meets the needs of novice users as well as more experienced (access to the HTML). With Canalblog, create and manage multiple blogs from a single account. Blogger as elsewhere. One regrets the low number of graphical themes.