New Blog Strategy
I’m moving from roller@jroller onto a personal install of WordPress.
Here are some of my reasons for the move:
- I have my site fully hosted now (on dreamhost) and it’s a better branded presence (I am my own most important brand/product after all)
- jroller is great, and I LOVE roller weblogger (it was my first blogging platform, and will continue to be anytime I have multiple users and the ability to run java) — but, I don’t have java on my shared hosting and WordPress seems to be the PHP equivalent to Roller.
- I thought about Movable Type (MT) and tried the sample install, it was cool, but so was WordPress.
- MT provided multiple blogs and multiple users from one admin interface, which was tempting, but not tempting enough
- WordPress allows for static pages
- seems like a simple feature, but it allows me to have a poor man’s CMS and edit these static pages when I’m away from my FTP access
Links:
Ben’s Tech Blog – https://benjaminchristen.com/
Roller Weblogger – http://rollerweblogger.org/
MT – http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/
WordPress – http://wordpress.org/
Dreamhost – http://www.dreamhost.com/rewards.cgi?benchristen
shameless referal link, I know – but that’s one of the great benefits of dreamhost