question about online blog

[k-style]

okay so i was wondering how can i obtain a nice blog, i dont mind paying for it, but if i can find one for free it would be better, i just want something clean and simple where i can display my images nice and big, something to compliment my website.

any place where i can get one?:confused:

[Karl Johnston]

www.wordpress.org

but i suggest backing it up a bit more than that...the essentials of having a plan couldn't be more important than just having a blog.

first you need something to blog about, and in order to make it work for you it has to be relevant to what you do.

the design is the least of your concerns, its the structure and the function of the blog that you should be worried about the most.

me, i dont have a blog. i really dont need one right now...but when i do, this is what ill be paying attention to first.

well actually i dont really want to type it all out, so i'll link to you a good place to read some articles about blogging for business.
http://www.solo-e.com/library/articles/internet-marketing/blogs.shtml

[k-style]

thanx Karl, i checkd out worldpress and my first impression is exremely complicated :-/

i was seriously thinking of a blog where i can host my images as big as possible with very little writing, im not doing it so much for the bogging experience, but more of an HTML compliment to my flash site where i can post full sessions, have the freedom to write about them and then let the family, mother, father, friends comment on their sessions....

[Livinthalife]

I use blogspot.

[k-style]

so do i, but the image host doesnt do it for me, i want the images to jump at the viewer....

[Karl Johnston]

everything is a little complicated until you learn to do it

there are lots of guides, and its really not that complicated as blogspot. it gives you more flexibility.

otherwise you can pay people to set them up for you

or www.prophotoblogs.com


or

www.infinetdesign.com

or
www.flosites.com

are other blog-like designers

but anything worth doing is worth putting a bit of effort into it and finding what works for you. i suspect your marketing and advertising budget is pretty small (thats okay, most are, especially most new..) so you'll have to shop around, or perhaps find some tutorials that will help you out. lots on the site if you look around.

[k-style]

thank you so much Karl for your help, ill be sure to look into these :-)

[ReenaG]

http://www.squarespace.com/

is pretty nice and customizes easily. Wordpress and Blogspot are actually fairly easy to figure out. The one that I couldn't cope with was Typepad.

[Hikin Mike]

+1 for Wordpress. If you can download it to your server...even better.