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Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?
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Hi there,Which do you use: Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine (the ones w/ illustrations, some text)? Which has the advantage, easier & why?~Thanks" Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Marc May 22, 2010.
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Marc replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"I used Wordpress because it has advanced features and lets me customize. I knew I was willing to put a small budget into it and needing something I could have multiples levels of things going on.
There is a difference between Wordpress - dot - COM…"
Simon Parkin replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"Hi - I managed to get a PayPal button on my WordPress site. Don't ask me how I did it though! It took a while but I think I just trawled through the help pages on WordPress. Here's my site: http://thewanderermagazine.wordpress.com/"
Daniel Raccoon replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"I use blogspot, it works fine:
neatzine.blogspot.com
but after readin' about word press, maybe I'll switch."
Josh Vidal replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"eyetriangle.blogspot.com
FREE ZINES FOR DOWNLOAD AND ONLINE VIEWING."
Brittney replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"You can sell things on either.
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Jenna Appleseed replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"if I've got it the right way round, you can sell things on the org version wordpress (that you have to install to your own site) but not on the .com version (that they host for you).
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sandy replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"Blogspot for me via my personal blog - http://okaysandy.blogspot.com
But I use wordpress for my portfolio - http://sandylovesyou.com
I'm a bit of a cms junkie - like to try out different systems. They're all easy enough, just depends on…"
Erin H replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"I use WordPress. I like the layout and word processor built into the site.
http://bicoastalgimps.wordpress.com/
http://shesabibliophile.wordpress.com/"
Dan 10things replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"The one big advantage to Blogspot is it's owned by Google, if you update your blog frequently, you'll very rate high in Google searches. It will drive a lot of new people to your blog."
tukru perkele replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"i used to self host my blog with wordpress but i swapped to a normal blogspot cos i kept having virus problems on my domain, apparently it wasn't very secure :( haven't had any problems since i got rid of the wordpress thing. it was…"
Persephone Pomegranate replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"I'm a wordpress developer so obviously I'm going to throw my vote in there. Wordpress.com is okay but lacks a lot of control. However, if you self host wordpress (wordpress.org) the sky's the limit."
Catherine Elms replied to Sally's discussion Do you use Blogspot or Word Press to promote your zine?"Really? Thanks, I'll look into it!
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