Website design software?

[Dan Romanchik KB6NU]

There are a couple of reasons to run  your own WP installation. First of all,  you can use any theme available, not just what wordpress.com lets you. The same goes for plugins. 

If I were you, I'd go for WordPress.  It's very easy to set up and very easy to change later when you want a new look.

73!

Dan KB6NU
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On Apr 17, 2011, at Apr 17,6:50 PM, jason at thought.net wrote:

> Regarding wordpress, it's easy enough to install, but why bother?  Several providers will provide blog space for cheap (or indeed nothing, eg. Wordpress.com).  Using your own domain with them requires a little DNS-fu (and cooperation with the blog/cms provider).
> 
> --jason wright
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Fox <tfox at knology.net>
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> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:24:13 
> To: tacos at amrad.org<tacos at amrad.org>
> Subject: Website design software?
> 
> I've had wb4jfi.com and wb4jfi.org set up for a while now, using 
> justhost.com as the provider.  I haven't had the time, interest, or 
> knowledge to build up those sites, and have used some very basic HTML 
> editing to put anything at all there.  I now want to expand that site 
> some, but am confused on the benefits of various web tools.
> 
> justhost.com provides a simple "Site Builder" which is interactive and 
> web-based.  It also appears rather limited, due to the simple 
> user-interface.  They also support Joomla and Wordpress.  While these 
> aren't Greek, they might as well be.  I sort of understand that 
> Wordpress is a blog software package, with limited CMS, and Joomla is a 
> CMS.  I also have an HTML editor and simple web page creator from Coffee 
> Cup that I bought a while back.
> 
> What I want to do is be able to put stuff at wb4jfi.com without taking 
> up a lot of time and effort.  Every hour spent on building the website 
> is another hour taken away from SDR design, or other worthwhile ham 
> radio project.  I kind of like the idea of a blog, but not something 
> that takes up a lot of time organizing the thing.  I have a book on 
> Wordpress, and am reading through it right now.  It seems OK.  I also 
> have a book on Joomla on the way.  The thing that bothers me about both 
> of them is the setting up, and specialized software on the server required.
> 
> Oh, and one more thing, for those that don't know me very well, I have 
> trouble drawing a stick-figure.  I am NOT an artist of any kind!
> 
> Given all the above, does anyone out there in virtual taco-land have 
> comments or suggestions to help me out?
> Thanks,
> Terry, WB4JFI
> 
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