Pick a Publishing Engine for Your Blog
Now this is where the real fun starts to happen. There are a million and one different content management systems or CMS scripts you can pick from. If you need a good resource on where to find the one that will work best for you I would highly suggest checking out OpenSourceCMS.com.
Here are some other good content management system resources to check out:
Now for the sake of keeping things simple - for today’s show we are going to go with my favorite WordPress. Now should you download WordPress from its Web site and install or install via your control panel’s easy “one-click” install? I would say do it the hard way. Navigate your favorite browser towards WordPress.org, hit the download link and pick up the .zip download file.
Here are a few other suggestions for blogging scripts you could use:
You want a blogging script that will be easy enough for you to manage and that has plenty of other users. The reason you want to use one of the more popular choices out there is because when you run into trouble, figuring out a problem is often easier to do in a group. There are a lot of WordPress resources out there so that would be why it would be my suggestion for the best script you could use.
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Thanks for the links and resources looks like a lot of good content to comb through.
I like that CMS Matrix site for comparing CMS scripts. I just compared Mambo, Joomla and Drupal. Sweet.