Jav_NE Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Hey guys! Me and my grilfriend want to set up a blog for our travels, so we can document what we get up to, post our pics and videos etc. Only problem is, we're clueless about these things! First of all, are the free blog services out there much use? Like eBlogger for example? If we set up a blog with them will we be able to personalise it much? I know some of you have blogs, the NE one itself is really nice, so i was wondering if any of you could help with recomendations etc. Also, it would be nice to have our own domain, like cjteam.com or something (its what we like to call ourselves... dont ask) so how do we go about that? Basically, if any of you could outline the steps needed to set up a good blog, maybe what you did for yours, then we'd really appreciate it
Dyson Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 (edited) Right, my blog is at http://www.dysonism.com and the blog website it's hosted on is called Tumblr. http://www.tumblr.com As you can see by my layout; it is indeed extremely customizable. Easy to post up pictures and text and such with little or easy knowledge on how to do so. Audio, pictures, videos, text, chats, links etc. You can also set up multiple "tumblelogs" under one account, so you could both run one together or have seperate ones with the same log in. Gotta say I much prefer Tumblr over blogspot etc because blogspot blogs all look the same - the left aligned content field with the dates and categories on the right. I don't like that myself. Tumblr allows for a decent amount of customizability which is something I like, to keep my site looking unique. As far as domains go you'll need to buy one. I used http://www.godaddy.com to check and purchase my domain name (http://www.dysonism.com) and I think it came to £7 a year. Cheaper if you buy for a longer amount of time but I thought I'd trial it and see how it worked. I love it Setting it up on Tumblr is easy, it'll ask you if you want to use a custom domain name, you whack the custom one you bought on there and follow the instructions and you're set. Edit 2: Bad news; just checked godaddy.com and teamcj.com and cjteam.com are taken. I think cjteam.co.uk was available though Edited April 10, 2009 by Dyson
flameboy Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Well if you not bothered about your own independently run blog http://www.travelpod.com is the way forward has great easy to use stuff for mapping your journey etc.. Here's one of my mates' blogs from off there; http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/stephen.j.booth/1/1239024900/tpod.html?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=FBMTBNewsfeed&utm_content=FBMTBNewsFeedToEntry
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