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Blog Software? by KeyStorm on 05-08-2005 at 01:37 AM
A group of friend and I are going to publish a blog, we have several ideas and topics, but we need to choose a software to run it.
I just tested WordPress, b2evolution and Serendipity. I must say that they are very good and actually very similar in many aspects. I somehow seemed to feel more confortale at b2evo, but I must reckon I don't know enough about blogging to consider that a valid reason to pick up any of them.
I'd like to know what's your prefered blogware and why. If you can make a little review or a little comparison between different softwares I'd be very pleased. Also try to be as objective as possible, because there are different blogging needs and a blogware cannot be the best for every taste.
Thanks a lot in advance. 
RE: Blog Software? by user13774 on 05-08-2005 at 09:31 AM
Here is a chart with a lot of blog software:
http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm
The site is kinda out-dated (if you check the version numbers), but at least you got a list of available blogging software 
RE: Blog Software? by user27089 on 05-08-2005 at 11:27 AM
I have personally always used Word Press, and it's very easy to customize and things, so I would definitely go for that .
RE: Blog Software? by segosa on 05-08-2005 at 11:36 AM
You're good at PHP, KeyStorm, make your own, that's what I did.
RE: Blog Software? by KeyStorm on 05-08-2005 at 12:35 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Markus
Here is a chart with a lot of blog software:
http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm
The site is kinda out-dated (if you check the version numbers), but at least you got a list of available blogging software
I've seen that before, but the only thing I realised is that it's a spam page that opens like 3 or 4 popups.
WordPress might be a safe choice, since many famous bloggers use it, but this is not always a guarantee of success.
quote:
Originally posted by Segosa
You're good at PHP, KeyStorm, make your own, that's what I did.
Sigh... If I had enough time in my hands...
RE: Blog Software? by John Anderton on 05-08-2005 at 12:40 PM
Imo wordpress > *
Nice themes n everything 
U can see my site ... nice theme
KS .... get 
Wp
RE: Blog Software? by TheGeek on 05-08-2005 at 12:49 PM
I also use Wordpress and I must say that I really like it.
I also made my own theme for wordpress and a custom plugin.
Making themes and plugins to extend wordpress is really easy and very useful.
It also makes you look geekier .
RE: Blog Software? by Jhrono on 05-08-2005 at 12:53 PM
Wordpress owns all man...
for word press..
RE: Blog Software? by Jeronimo on 05-08-2005 at 12:59 PM
Another vote for Wordpress. I'll be honest and admit I've not tried many different blogs, just WP and Movable Type.
I found that Wordpress is easy to set up and use, its being constantly developed, and has a great level of support and plugins, making it very powerful. Its popularity is a testiment to its success, and I think its probably the leading blog software by now.
I think you are already doing the best thing possible, trying out all the different ones and making your own mind up
RE: Blog Software? by KeyStorm on 05-08-2005 at 02:18 PM
If only WP had locale configuration like b2evo... (this includes date and time formatpresets for all locales and translations are included in the package).
However it has a nice admin panel and the ping/trackback seems to work finest (Hey I just discovered what those actually meant ).
Actually I tested b2evo and WP at localhost and Serendipity at OS-CMS, a site you may visit to check the life demos of many CMS apps including blogware.
Well thanks a lot for your suggestions, I now have a clearer idea about blogger's choice