Link and Blog

Whether you’re a seasoned blogger or a beginner, one thing that is for sure is the desire to have a blogging platform that is easy to use, and preferably on your own domain. Did you know that there are demo test sites for a variety of blogging platforms? From one site you can test blogging platforms using demo’s for the following blogging platforms:

• Dotclear

• Eggblog

• Flatpress

• Globber

• Habari

• LifeType

• NibbleBlog

• Nucleus

• Open Blog

• Pritlog

• Serendipity

• Textpattern

• WordPress

• Zomplog

It makes it a much easier process to use a demo test site for a blogging platform before you start a new blog. Would you like to give a demo test site a try before you get started with a blogging platform? You’ll find this handy if you are considering a new blog and would like to use a demo to see how you like it first! So go ahead and take on a new blogging adventure and test some demo blogging platforms. Happy blogging!

If you haven’t already read about it – Ebay is discontinuing their blogging platform October 31, 2009. Several years ago I thought about establishing a blog on their platform since I was a fairly active seller at that time, but my thoughts were that I would rather spend the time and energy working on Link and Blog and my other blogs. As all bloggers know, it takes a great deal of time to work on blog templates, cpanel maintenance, adding blog gadgets and especially writing blog posts.

If you have an Ebay blog, you may want to quickly save what you can from the blog content, and consider using the content for your own blog, and especially on your own domain. Chalk up another reason to establish and use your own domain for blogging since a blogging platform providing sub-domains for free blogs may not always be forever. Ebay blogs retiring is one good example that it can happen!