Start Your Own Blog For Free
October 14, 2007 – 0:01 am
I have been running The Sisyphus Comments for over two years now and I have a pretty loyal group of regular readers. Believe it or not, I actually started my blog to help me keep track of the cool products, software and websites that I discovered on the internet. Of course, it has also provided me with a forum for expressing my thoughts and ideas. I try to post to my blog on a daily basis which I think is important if want people to visit your blog on a regular basis. Have you ever thought about starting a blog of your own? If not – why not? There are a bunch of free options available on the web that can get you up and running in no time.
I lease my own server and I have my own domain name (http://rlsei.com) but you don’t have to go to all that trouble and expense to start your own blog. Just visit WordPress.com and you can set up your own blog on the WordPress servers for free (as in beer). You can get a blog started in less time than it will take you to read this article. Just enter your email address and decide on a name for your blog. There are no limits on how much you blog and you can make your blog public or private for just your family and friends.
I chose WordPress as my blogging software because it has a very active development group and it is used by a substantial percentage of the blogging community. I think the reason for its popularity is its ease of use and the wide variety of attractive free templates that are available. When you set up your blog at WordPress.com, you will be able to change the look of your blog with over 60 attractive themes with just a click of a button. The themes allow you to customize the sidebar and some even let you upload your own photo or image for the header bar.
So visit WordPress.com, get your blog started then come back to this article and leave me a comment. Be sure to include your blog url address so I can check out your new creation. I will give you some additional blogging tips in future articles but don’t wait – sign up for your blog today.
One Response to “Start Your Own Blog For Free”
Hi Rich.
Your friendly neighborhood PR lackey here 🙂
As someone who recently started a blog herself and spends 40+ hours a week reading them, I definitely have a few thoughts about them. The most important being that one should only start a blog if he or she is really committed to it. I had wanted to start a blog for at least a year before I actually did so, simply because I knew I didn’t really have a theme for it. There are way too many blogs out there that have a few posts in the first month or two and then sporadic posts that start out with “I know I haven’t written in a while! I promise I’ll update more often!” Usually, that’ll be the last post there is.
I use WordPress and am happy with it for the most part. My only complaint is that you can’t use any Javascript widgets in your sidebars. I’ve always wanted to have a moving Flickr badge. Ah well, maybe in the future.
By Melanie Seasons on Oct 14, 2007