A closer look at megaweblog.com
This article was about wordpress.com but it fits megaweblog.com perfect.
The bare bones explanation is that MEGAWEBLOG.COM offers the a newer, beta version of WordPress that you don’t need to install on your own server. Instead, you just sign up and immediately get a subdomain on Megaweblog.com (like http://john.megaweblog.com). You can login and start blogging right away — it’s ease of use is beautiful for the novice blogger. It supports categories (and subcategories), trackbacks, and all the other trappings that I view as being necessary for any blogging tool. It has a WYSIWYG interface with a rich text editor, as well as the ability to edit the HTML directly. It also allows you to upload pictures and then drag and drop them into your posts. In short, it’s super easy to use, and changing the presentation of your blog takes about two clicks (click on Presentation, and then choose the theme you want).
The shortcomings is you cannot customize the themes yet (you can’t even specify the font color – supposedly changes to this are in the works, as mentioned above it is still in beta). You also cannot add additional themes or plugins as you can with the full version of WordPress (which requires installation on your on webhost w/a mysql database).
So what you get is a blogging platform that is VERY easy to use, and very slick, but rather limiting for expert bloggers.
For newbie bloggers, megaweblog.com could be the blogging tool you’ve been waiting for. And it’s FREE! If you don’t care about customizing your templates, it sure beats the pants off of Blogger, even in it’s beta form. More experienced bloggers should check it out, if only to be able to be part of the creation of the next version of WordPress — there is a Forum where you can submit ‘bugs and hugs’ as well as any suggestions of what you think WordPress.com needs to be a more fully functional and customizable blogging tool, and suggestions are often implemented at a rapid rate.
January 11th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Hey administrator. Can you delete our first blog that we tried? I think we called it sweden.megaweblog.com. We won’t be using it so you can take it off the server!
We love blogging and we are getting comments from our friends. Actually some we haven’t had contact with for some time!
Mir
January 11th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
One more Q. What is your recommendation on RSS feed? What do you use? Should I just download a free one from say gatornews or something like that?
Mir
January 11th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Will delete the old one.
I use
http://www.rssreader.com/ but any free one is ok.