After nearly three months of blogging use WordPress.com, I’ll be moving over to WordPress.org. WordPress.com, the free, hosted blogging platform, is an incredible tool for self-publishing. It’s a great way to dip a few toes into the blogging world. Yet it doesn’t allow access to the individual pages, thereby limiting a publishers’ ability to add analytics code, add Add This, or Share plug-ins, and some design limitations. But it does have many key widgets and plug-ins to get started. And, remember, it’s free!
At WordPress.org you can download for free but requires you to host the application on an ISP of your choosing. Not a big deal, but an important factor if you want access to your pages for development and design requirements.
I’m incredibly interested in web optimization, web analytics, user experience, visual design and self-publishing. So I’m building a new blog hosted by my ISP, Godaddy.com, who offers a WordPress.org package for a really reasonable fee.
I’m excited to continue to learn how blogging works from a technical standpoint, so as a self-publisher, I can focus on writing interesting, unique content that I’m proud to share, and people will want to read and comment.