How to blog - Part III - Blog Software

written by dan on July 12th, 2007 @ 10:22 PM

All right! By now, you’re all set up with a domain that’s been parked at your host, and nothing can stop you now from blogging, right? Sorry. One more step to go. Right now, all you’ve got is an empty site. Your site is waiting for you to do something.

Just think. Clean, empty, beautiful slate. Nothing on the site to worry about. Guess what? No content means no visitors. No visitors means no business on the web. No visitors means no money. You need money to keep your site going. Time to fix that.

You need the right tools for the job. Once again, the n00b blogger is faced with some options. There are several choices for blogging software. Mephisto, Wordpress and Typo are all great. Which one is the best? You’ll find that the answer to this question is not clear-cut. The better question to ask is which one is best for you.

I went with Mephisto for several reasons.
  1. Open Source software – Not bloated, yet very customizable.
  2. Built-in tagging, searching, categorizing, RSS feeds and assets.
  3. Growing number of 3rd party plugins
  4. Created with Ruby on Rails
  5. A wiki running on Mephisto.
  6. Developer friendly code syntax highlighting
  7. Not every page has to be a blog – allows for structured sites.
  8. Pluggable liquid layouts
  9. Much more

If you’re following my footsteps, this should be as smooth as possible for you. There were a couple obstacles that got in my way and cost me a few hours of time. By following this tutorial, you should have no problem at all. I’ll assume you have ssh’d into your account on your host.

Enjoy, and happy blogging!

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