When you first begin learning how to blog or setting up your blog
you must first consider the platform you're going to use. Simplicity or
Functionality is a true consideration when it comes to managing your
blog. Simplicity seems to be the way for beginner bloggers in creating a
blog because it would be basically a plug-and-play environment. Let's
take Weebly for example with its ease of use in creating a website, just
simply click add site, pick a template, choose your category and
presto, they you have it, your site is created.
Weebly:
Once your free site is created Weebly gives you a free subdomain choice that you can pick for your website. You can also choose to register a domain name or choose a domain that you already have. After you create your website it is not immediately published. You have to drag some elements over to what I will call your playing field to design your website.
You will have some very basic choices such as adding text, images galleries maps informs. You'll have columns and some other features that you can only get with the Pro version. But for the most part, the site is up and running as long as you have your content together in a few hours. That's really nice considering, it can take you a really long time to get your site together on your own. Once you finish designing your website, publishing it is as easy as clicking a button. You can also create a mobile website just by clicking another button. Both WordPress and Weebly have social network interaction that you can add to your website. Weebly also has Google AdSense, that's an automatic plug-in that you just authorize with Google AdSense and both you and Weebly split the profit.
WordPress:
When I thought about moving to WordPress I did some more checking around and found out that there was a phenomenal amount of support and plug-ins that allow your website or blog to do spectacular things. Now here's the kicker, you don't have to be a computer programmer to be able to utilize the plug-ins. Most of them come with some pretty simple instructions and the only big things is activating them and that's a simple task. There are a very large array of programmers that are writing plug-ins for WordPress so you could do things like add a "Updated Today" bar in the left-hand corner as I did in my blog. I thought that would be a really cool feature to have, it lets people know that some new post have went up today. I also added the star rating system to allow readers to be able to give a post one through five stars. This in turn helps to make my blog very interactive and it also helps me to understand what my readers want. These two things that I simply named, were nothing more than to free plug-ins.
Now initially setting up your blog might be a little challenging for some people. But there's a lot of help in doing so. Some web hosting companies actually have an automatic setup script that will create your blog for you and this to you can find out on my blog. Once the WordPress blog is created then the only thing you need to do is post quality content, add some plug-ins, do some search engine optimization and a few other things, etc.
Moving from one to the other:
One would think that this would be extremely easy to do, but try doing a search on moving from Weebly to WordPress or vice versa. You may be lucky enough to stumble upon some old instructions that talks about using Google's RSS reader. Well, let me help you out and save you some time on that one. Google discontinued its RSS reader and has some other thing which makes those post invalid. I have a post on my blog which actually shows you how to do it and I know it works, because I've done it.
http://affiliate-marketing.yourbiggestcommissions.com/
Weebly:
Once your free site is created Weebly gives you a free subdomain choice that you can pick for your website. You can also choose to register a domain name or choose a domain that you already have. After you create your website it is not immediately published. You have to drag some elements over to what I will call your playing field to design your website.
You will have some very basic choices such as adding text, images galleries maps informs. You'll have columns and some other features that you can only get with the Pro version. But for the most part, the site is up and running as long as you have your content together in a few hours. That's really nice considering, it can take you a really long time to get your site together on your own. Once you finish designing your website, publishing it is as easy as clicking a button. You can also create a mobile website just by clicking another button. Both WordPress and Weebly have social network interaction that you can add to your website. Weebly also has Google AdSense, that's an automatic plug-in that you just authorize with Google AdSense and both you and Weebly split the profit.
WordPress:
When I thought about moving to WordPress I did some more checking around and found out that there was a phenomenal amount of support and plug-ins that allow your website or blog to do spectacular things. Now here's the kicker, you don't have to be a computer programmer to be able to utilize the plug-ins. Most of them come with some pretty simple instructions and the only big things is activating them and that's a simple task. There are a very large array of programmers that are writing plug-ins for WordPress so you could do things like add a "Updated Today" bar in the left-hand corner as I did in my blog. I thought that would be a really cool feature to have, it lets people know that some new post have went up today. I also added the star rating system to allow readers to be able to give a post one through five stars. This in turn helps to make my blog very interactive and it also helps me to understand what my readers want. These two things that I simply named, were nothing more than to free plug-ins.
Now initially setting up your blog might be a little challenging for some people. But there's a lot of help in doing so. Some web hosting companies actually have an automatic setup script that will create your blog for you and this to you can find out on my blog. Once the WordPress blog is created then the only thing you need to do is post quality content, add some plug-ins, do some search engine optimization and a few other things, etc.
Moving from one to the other:
One would think that this would be extremely easy to do, but try doing a search on moving from Weebly to WordPress or vice versa. You may be lucky enough to stumble upon some old instructions that talks about using Google's RSS reader. Well, let me help you out and save you some time on that one. Google discontinued its RSS reader and has some other thing which makes those post invalid. I have a post on my blog which actually shows you how to do it and I know it works, because I've done it.
http://affiliate-marketing.yourbiggestcommissions.com/
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