Which Blog Software To Use

Some Popular Blogging Software Compared

While there are many kinds of blog software available in the market today, decision on the type of software to use will be influenced by a number of factors. Perhaps the biggest influencing factor is the use that the buyer of the software intends to put the software to. Software for use by a single person is different from software that would be required to support several users.

Closely related to this is the ability of the blogger. Some software will only be useful to people with programming knowledge while some are so friendly that they do not require any special or advanced programming education.

Since it might not be possible to make a decision on your own about the friendliness of software, looking at the market and observing the most popular software as determined by the number of users would also help. Popularity of blogging software could point to its user-friendliness.

The most popular blogging software in the market today is WordPress. There are many reasons for the popularity of WordPress and one of the reasons could be that the software is available for free. In addition, WordPress is ideal for upstarts and people whose only interest is blogging but have no advanced knowledge of programming and website design. The software comes complete with default themes so that the user need not worry about creating templates for the blog.

WordPress is also ideal for use by a single person who does not need support for various blogs on a single website.

An almost equally easy to use blog software is Expression Engine. Expression Engine is extremely easy to configure and this is important for a blogger as it makes it easy for the boggger to take charge of things. With this software also, no special programming knowledge is required. Unlike WordPress, however, Expression Engine is available for a fee.

Another popular blog software is Drupal. Drupal, while mainly used to blog by a number of people, is actually a complete Content Management System (CMS). When using Drupal, you are able to do many more things such as setting up forums and shopping carts in addition to blogging. Drupal is especially ideal for the blogger who needs to support several blogs. Unlike WordPress and Expression Engine, Drupal is rather hard to set up.

Using Drupal also requires knowledge of designing (HTML and CSS) as well as programming (PHP). This immediately makes a lot of people unqualified to use the software. In addition, the blogger will need to spend quite some time trying to understand the software’s source code. This can be quite time-consuming but the rewards are enormous for those who take the trouble. Like WordPress, Drupal is also available for free.