Blog Tasks- Selecting my Blog Platform, Domain Name, and Blog Host

Selections

One of the first recommendations from many of the resources is to selecting a domain name and a host for your blog. I had already selected the services.

GoDaddy Domain Name and Hosting for my personal blog:

• Domain Name
  • Michelle’s Eclectic Blog (http://www.tmichellemoore.com).
• Hosting
  • GoDaddy
• Blogging Platform
  • WordPress
• Why
  • I have always had a domain name and hosting with GoDaddy to use for experimenting or testing.
  • I use the email addresses that come with my domain for testing applications at work.
  • It offered WordPress hosting through the CPanel.
  • WordPress, the blogging platform I selected is the one that most of my fellow bloggers will be using.

Squarespace for Domain Name and Hosting of my photography blog

• Domain Name
  • The Viable View (http://www.viableview.com)
  • This name was selected because viable means vivid, real, practical, and expandable.
    • I want my photography and my photography blog to be viable.
• Hosting
  • Squarespace
• Blogging Platform
  • Squarespace
• Why
  • I used Squarespace when I was Director of Technology for the Metro DC ATD Chapter.
  • Many technology podcasts advertise for Squarespace which lends credibility to the company.
  • Many blog posts recommend either WordPress or Squarespace as a blogging platform.
  • I tried the trial and love the platform because of the simplicity.
  • I have created websites in HTML, I have developed websites using Dreamweaver and Frontpage, I have used WordPress before and am familiar with the multitude of plug-ins.
    • I don’t have to have an overly complicated blog.
  • I loved the theme choices that were available.

Starting a Blog References

There are many sites that offer recommendations on how to start a blog. As you can see actually started this blog long ago. But one can always learn.

• The Minimalist – How to Start a Blog
  • Follow Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus and Twitter
• Becoming Minimalist – 15 Reasons I Think You Should Blog
  • Follow Joshua Becker on Twitter

Next Steps

• I will be updating this post with additional resources related to starting a blog.
  • I will also add a page of references.
• The next steps for this blog are to select the Theme and fix up the old posts.
  • The Viable View is using the Avenue theme.
• Ongoing – learning more about photography.