I can see my blog entry how it would appear on my site, as I’m typing it. I can also go back an edit entries as well. The speed is fairly slow to be honest. It appears as if every character needs to get sent back to the server, so I can type a lot quicker than what the text appears on the screen. It hasn’t picked up on the categories features of wordpress correctly and it also appears as though I can’t add in tags easily.

It also doesn’t allows me to upload photos through iPhoto, and  would need to export the photo from iPhoto first before I could use it. This isn’t any different in how I would have to do it through the web browser, but considering that this is an application installed on my computer I would of expected it to have some advantage.

Well so far, I would rank Adobe Contribute about 1/10 and I would have no reason to use it in the future to write up a blog post on my site. (I’ll have to log in later to fix up the categories and tags)

This is the first blog post on the site – www.jason-v.com. Unlike typically first posts which are filled with ‘test post’, ‘testing’, ‘first post’, ‘hello world’ (by the way, thanks wordpress for inserting that one yourself), I’ve decided to fill it with content.

So two basic questions, answered:

Why wordpress?

I have heard of www.wordpress.com in the past and with a quick search on www.alexa.com I found that wordpress is ranked 20th. That is a huge achievement, and you have to be doing something right to get that far up. To give you a bit of an idea, here are the top 10 sites currently:

1. www.google.com
2. www.yahoo.com
3. www.facebook.com
4. www.youtube.com
5. www.live.com
6. www.msn.com
7. www.blogger.com
8. www.wikipedia.com
9. www.baidu.com
10. www.yahoo.co.jp

I’ve heard of the first 8, and im sure most people have to. Perhaps you’ve heard of all 10 before? Granted the 10th site is still Yahoo, just for Japan so lets say I’ve heard of 9.

So blogger.com is 7! Why not go with them?

You can! The choice is yours, but having a look at blogger.com it didn’t seem as friendly. It also wasn’t something which I could download and install on my own domain. This was the major reason for quickly skipping over, but if I didn’t want host the my self. Blogger, owned by the search engine giant Google might very well of been my choice.

WordPress also was something new, something I haven’t used before and for me that sounded appealing. In the next few months I will dive in, install plugins, add widgets and hopefully appear on search engines. With the help of you.

Why a domain?

Having a domain not only means I get full control from what content appears, where the site is hosted (Sydney, Australia if you are wondering) but it has more ‘impact’. If you had a buisness card, and wanted people to know about your name, your site, your brand… would you hand out something that says  myblog.atsomeotherdomain.com ?

Or would you like to say, ‘check out www.jason-v.com’?

There are hurdles in having your own domain though such as, registering a domain, obtaining hosting, keeping it up and running but I’m sure I can get over that. You can help me get over that, and I can help you.

So I’ll end this with “Welcome”.