Best professional blog site?

[RLara85]

I've been through a lot of troubles and had a project started to raise awareness, it's costing me a lot though and it's a standard website which I'm not sure I'm feeling, I'd rather have something where I could give constant input and communicate directly with people. Thinking of switching to a blog format.

I don't know about blogs. Free would be good to start with since (for now) this is bringing in zero income. I'd like a blog site that is well known and trendy enough that would get a good amount of traffic, but that also gets a good amount of more serious bloggers (i'll be talking about living with serious health issues, so I'd rather not be at a blog site where everyone is blogging about the latest 50 cent album).

I also want something a bit more professional b/c I wouldn't mind using this as a launching pad into other writing gigs, and if any potential recruiters were to catch the blog, I'd like it to be at a site with a decent rep.

Sorry so long, anyone who knows about blogging feel free to recommend

 

[J4CKT]

Wordpress

WordPress › Blog Tool and Publishing Platform


Its free, highly customisable and quite easy to use, even for beginners. From what i have heard, it first started out as just blogging software, then evolved into a fullyfunctional 'site creation' tool if you will. Its also constantly being updated with new versions coming out all the time with new functions and features.

You can download the software from that site you will also find the forums where you will find the answers to most of your questions in regards to setup and config etc.

Oh and in terms of looking professional, both **broken link removed** and www.synthetek.com are built on wordpress.

Hope this helps.

 

[eazy]

Yes WP is the most popular and i believe it's open source.

 

[bbminded]

I also agree about wordpress but be careful because there is wordpress.com and wordpress.org........ you want to use wordpress.org

Also, just to throw another blog platform out there, you could check out blogger. Its owned by google which is a good thing! Good luck