I totally agree. For someone not ever wanting their own hosting site, the big
three (wordpress.com, blogger, and google sites) certainly make sense.
Tumblr was new to me and is getting some nice street cred:
http://www.orphicpixel.com/tumblr-vs-wordpress/
Because I *really* would require the ability to move my site from one place to
another (maybe no one else cares!), I'd look at:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content
But all in all, the only reason *not* to use wordpress is that it sometimes can
require you're writing php for themes. But the newer default theme is not the
Huge But Ugly Button theme (Kubrick). The plusses of wordpress are pretty
overwhelming:
- Easy to import/export
- Easy to self host and convert to self hosting later
- Lots of folks can help you use it
- Gets steadily better every release
- Great support for plugins
- Great update support
-- Owen
On May 21, 2011, at 5:07 PM, David Collins wrote:
> Dreamweaver and plain old HMTL work great, but they require going outside the
> CMS for such an ubiquitous feature as user comments though cloud-sourced user
> comments can bridge that gap.
>
> Wordpress has features not found in Dreamweaver including tags, feeds,
> indexing (with on-page indexes) and a super-accessible admin interface, and
> much much more in plugins. A big site running on Dreamweaver can become
> daunting to modify if one hasn't anticipated a good approach for configuring
> site-wide theme elements.
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice summary.
>
> BTW: Odd no one suggested simply using Dreamweaver or similar tool. Just
> plain old fashioned web pages and images up in the cloud work just fine for
> most folks needing a simple site.
>
> And I think both Mac and Windows have built-in HTML/Site editors, and also
> hosting of some sort.
>
> -- Owen
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