From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 14:53:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E7D106564A for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 14:53:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@galador.org) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1968FC0C for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 14:53:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so16586541iwn.13 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:53:25 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.31.71 with SMTP id x7mr7864785ibc.198.1294325604836; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:53:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.160.204 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 06:53:24 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [159.204.59.21] In-Reply-To: References: <20110106041332.GA24859@thought.org> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 08:53:24 -0600 Message-ID: From: "Bryan H." To: Gary Kline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: blog-site questions.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:53:26 -0000 If you're looking to pay a little for this, I might recommend you check out Squarespace[1]. They have some great content management features and some wonderful templates, which are completely customizable. Probably the best way to see how it works is to view the tour[2]. And finally, you can get 14 days to try it completely free. You don't even need a credit card to sign up, and if you use the offer code "TWIT" (from the "This Week in Tech" podcast with Leo Laporte), you can get 10% off the price for the life of your account[3]. Even if you don't decide to go with Squarespace, I'd reinforce one thing Chris said: > If you want to promote some of your written work ... get a domain Perhaps you could use a sub-domain on your thought.org domain, but I would say that anyone using those free blog services (wordpress.com / blogger / livejournal) for a for professional reason, well... aren't very professional, in my opinion. ;-) Wordpress (the software)[4] is rather easy to install on your own servers, and has a nice, easy-to-use administration panel. There are tons of themes and plugins available for it, so it's quite customizable as well. Hope that helps some. :-) [1] http://www.squarespace.com/ [2] http://www.squarespace.com/tour/ [3] http://www.squarespace.com/twit [4] http://wordpress.org/