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I have started blogging 3 months ago and now have 5 blogs earning small money. I want to switch to my own domain name for new projects. I have a few questions:
1) Is it good enough to get a domain name and continue to use blogger, but using it to upload to my own domain? I think it can be done but not sure. What are the disadvantages if I do it this way?
2) I am only familiar with Blogger which is easy to use. If I want to learn simple web page construction, what should I use? I do not like Frontpage templates. Is it hard to pick up, things like Dreamweaver? Is there anywhere I can contruct "clean" and tidy websites? I would like to make webpages with 2 frames (left & right sidebars) with the content in the middle. Which easy to use programs allow me to construct it?
3) Does the Open Directory or DMOZ just accepts normal sites and not blogs? Is it imporatnt to be listed there?
Thanks a lot!
Is there anywhere I can contruct "clean" and tidy websites?
notepad.exe is quite good for this task. I'm not kidding. Learn to construct clean tidy html by hand and you'll be well on the road to good SEO.
I would like to make webpages with 2 frames (left & right sidebars) with the content in the middle. Which easy to use programs allow me to construct it?
I would suggest you DON'T start coding pages using frames. Read up on CSS - try searching for 'two column css' and 'three column css' to find out how to get the layouts you talk about.
Frames have many disadvantages and few advantages - and are simply old-fashioned IMHO.
Some related questions.
1) How does Blogger.com compare to Wordpress? Which is better and easier to use? I have no experince with Wordpress. And if I want to use my own domain name, can wordpress,com do this? I also found out that there is wordpress.org. Getting confused which is which.
You can install Wordpress on your own webspace by downloading it from Wordpress.org. Just follow the attached instructions - its extremely easy and short. I've never done it, but you can do the same with blogger.com's software to my knowledge and I believe it is an easy install as well.
For myself, I generally keep my blogs on blogger.com. It's just generally easier for me to manage and it serves as an external one-way link to my webpage.
For getting into web development and what not, I'd strongly suggest you start hand coding HTML and learning CSS. Once you've got a pretty good handle on that, take a look at the basics of PHP. I'm not very good at PHP at all, but I can modify open-source software quite a bit to make it work exactly how I want it to.
