How to start a blog (continued): Youth Pastor, Youth Ministry, or whatever else you want to blog about...

My reader base consist of two groups for the most part. The first being people who are part or our church community. The second group is made up of other youth pastors surfing the web. I guess I have a third group as well, friends and others who find my strange life interesting (If you read my blog and blog yourself let me know!). These groups make up most of my 8,000 plus readers. Today's post is for bloggers or those looking to get into the blog world. 

In a past blog I listed out a step by step process on how to create a blog. In this post I want to shed light on some not so new but very powerful blogging software. 

I hope you can find out how to make a blog by now. If not just go to blogger.com and sign up. Recently I entered the world of wordpress 2.6 blogging software. It will take your blog to the next level and even allows you to easily import your prior blogs from blogger.

The Transitions Community blog I have been working on is a good example of wordpress 2.6. 

To start a wordpress software installation you need a domain name and hosting provider. I would recommend doing everything through GoDaddy because of the low-cost solutions they offer ($10 for 1yr domain and 3 months basic hosting), as well as excellent customer support. You can also control your domain and hosting information in the same place which I find convenient. 

I like wordpress because it offers total control over your blog, and to your site visitors it appears to be a standard static web site with a blog. If you are afraid of control panels and admin interfaces I would continue using blogger but if you feel like taking your blog to a whole new level look into wordpress 2.6 software installation. On the wordpress site you can find a full list of features.

Accept,

John Denton

Not trying to get you to change over just letting you know your options... (notice I am still on blogger)