I use WordPress as well.  I think it’s pretty cool.

Gear Live currently runs on MovableType 3.0D. Does anyone have any other blogging programs they recommend over MT, including the reasons behind it?

I was looking at ExpressionEngine, and thought it looked awesome.

I use Wordpress on my blog, because its open source and free, and supports multiple users (although i’m the only user of my blog). I’ve read that a lot of people who are dissatisfied with MT move to WP, because WP has many of the same features that MT users enjoy.

Doesn’t anyone else run their own blogs?

Wordpress is very easy to install and maintain, too. I like it. I use it in conjunction with bbclone to monitor traffic on my site.

What’s a blog?

A weblog? It’s like an online journal. Its all the rage these days… All the cooool people are doing it.

tighr - your blog link in your sig doesnt work…

It works now. My server was apparantly acting funky this morning, I was having trouble accessing it, too. But it works now.

*bum*
I’m interested in knowing if anybody else uses anything different than Word Press. Or if anyone uses any type of windows apps to publish to their blog.

Gear Live now runs on ExpressionEngine.

If yu want a windows app, I would go with ecto 😊

is xanga.com considered a blog? lol i have no idea :lol:

[quote author=“AndruGearLive”]Gear Live now runs on ExpressionEngine.

If yu want a windows app, I would go with ecto 😊

Ecto looks awesome. I also ran across w Bloggar. Anyone had any experience with it?

i still dont understand whats so cool about blogs lol.  it seems pointless and a waste of time to me.

b2evolution is just as good if not better than expression engine, and its free 😊

Well, just to let you guys know, the people that created Expression Engine, made pMachine Pro free now.  Go to their site and read about it.  I think it’s cool, since pMachine Pro is so much better than their free version. 

http://www.pmachine.com/pmachinepro/index.php

W Bloggar is awesome. I recomend you guys try it out. It works with all the popular blogging software and is free  

[quote author=“snak3y3z1001”]is xanga.com considered a blog? lol i have no idea :lol:

Yeah, its one of the more popular ones that charges for a “premium account, whereas there are free blogging scripts out there you can do better with.

yea alot of peopel are doing it

I still use wordpress, i find it to be extremely cool and there are a lot of plugins for it. I just installed a statistics plugin, which tracks which posts are getting read the most!

I had trouble getting wordpress to work with my website template, so I wound up using blogger.com lol

What’s the difference between all these different “software”? All that I can see that’s different is the backend interface. Even then, you can just use a 3rd party WYSIWYG software and then all of them do pretty much the same. I’m sure I’m missing something. Anyone care to clarify this? :?  I’m sure there has to be a reason why some of these services you have to pay for, yet there’s WordPress that’s free and others that are also free.  :think:

The backend is precisely what people want. Sure, the end user sees the same thing no matter what (usually), but the main importance is what you can do on the backend.

[quote author=“EricGearLive”]The backend is precisely what people want. Sure, the end user sees the same thing no matter what (usually), but the main importance is what you can do on the backend.

Well that’s what I’m refering to. Just the interface is different? Ecto has very awesome features that allow you to make very nice posts.