Alright I need your help. I need an awesome place to make a new blog/website.

I don't use myspace
I don't use facebook
I don't use geocities
I used blogger.com for two years and loved it. But I need to create an entirely new thing. I deleted mine. So if you guys can help me out it would be awesome. I appreciate it.

Are you trying to make your own website?


There are plenty of sites that offer free webpages (with advertising), or you can open a godaddy account (about 100 bucks a year or something like that if you use server space) and get your own domain.

As far as blogs go, if you're not blogging on facebook or myspace, blogger is the best.

I know people who have successful blogs (thousands of hits a week) on blogger.

Imago said:

Ive been checking out those free webpages and I just don't really like most of them. They seem to be to cheesy. And so far you are write with the blog Blogger is the best and I haven't foudn anything better. I just want to try something different this year and I'm tired of the blogger skins they have.

BucketOfBouncyBalls said:

You can always go with a pay site like godaddy. I use it for my webpage (currently under construction ), but I plan on creating it and then just embed my blogger blog inside of that.

Imago said:

Shit, that's way too much and godaddy sucks ass. I'm paying about half of that for 1.5GB of space and 15GB of traffic per month and got a shitload of tools with it to build a site. Joomla kicks ass.
[Edited 12/30/07 18:47pm]

BucketOfBouncyBalls said:

Why don't you use one of those listed then?!

you obviously know the free ones (blogger/blogspot, wordpress and the likes).

What you need is a hosting partner (like godaddy) but first off you need to know what you want to do with your site ...

You probably want :
your own domain
webspace
access to one or more databases (MySQL, MS SQL, ...)
some pop accounts
the use of php, asp
ftp access to your webserver
...

if you're gonna do this professionally, check out your partners a little more. Check if they got multiple datacenters and they got Service Level Agreements. 99.98 uptime still is a full week of unavailability a year

Another think to check out is privacy. Read the privacy statements. Most of the partners nowadays have clauses that state they can not guarantee your privacy and will turnover your data to government or police if requested.

The internet is global, it might be interesting to check out providers outside the US

once you got your infra setup, you'll need a framework (why invent the wheel again). I've always worked with drupal (www.drupal.org) but joomla as mentioned above is creating lots of waves nowadays. So either that suits your goals would do to get you started very quickly. Check out some pages using those frameworks and choose the one that feels best for you, check out system requirements and match those by the services offered by the provider ...
[Edited 12/31/07 2:13am]

JDInteractive said:

cause myspace is stupid
facebook got stupid
and geocities is cheap