creating my own boat Blog or Website??

[carrswood]

evening all
For a bit of fun - if I wanted to create a website about our boat and to record some of the fun things we get up to when onboard; which website "creator/builder/editor" should I use?? Nice and simple, adding photos, stories etc

Or do I creat a blog site. For those in the kno i look forward to reading your thoughts

Have a good evening

ps - its still raining and blowing dogs off chains down here in Hamble!

 

[tom_sail]

I use wordpress.com, it not a website more a blog but can be designed like a website.

Feel free to have a browse..www.awesomeorb.com

 

[kunyang]

www.blogger.com is free and easy to use

 

[hunter_europa]

I also use Wordpress which is free and easy to use. You can even download an app for your phone etc which works really well.

 

[Halcyon Yachts]

I have just started using Blogger:

http://halcyonyachts.blogspot.co.uk/

It's very straightforward and user friendly!

Pete

 

[jonic]

Another vote for Bloger

http://jryachts.blogspot.co.uk/

Easy to use and I was able to customize a basic template to match in with my main website

Once you get the hang of it, it's quite versatile.

It would be ideal for what you are planning and it's free

 

[BobPrell]

How about a wiki?

Just to be different try a wiki.

Here's one about a boat.

http://roama.wikispaces.com/ mostly pictures

http://roama.wikispaces.com/930-to-Brisbane mostly text

It also works as a host for pictures for this forum.

 

[snooks]

We use blogger http://yachtpixie.blogspot.com and we used the blogpress app on our iPhones to update it on our trip. Posts could be half written and saved and don't take long to upload

 

[Fantasie 19]

www.blogger.com is free and easy to use

+1

Love it for the simple interface.. once you get used to it you can do quite clever things though.....

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

+1

I've used pretty much all of 'em....

Blogger is the easiest to use of all, and quite versatile.

http://mishapsandmemories.blogspot.com

 

[Lakesailor]

I started with www.Blogger.com but I am a crap diarist so sort of stopped updating.

http://lakesailorslog.blogspot.co.uk/​

 

[oldvarnish]

There's www.sailblogs.com

I don't know if other sites offer this, but with sailblogs you can post to your blog without having to open a web page. You do it via an email address.
This means that you can easily post to your blog if you have a slow connection such as a satellite phone.
I guess you could also save expensive data costs if you were abroad and using a phone - it being cheaper to send an email than load a website.
I kept a blog going quite easily on this site from mid Atlantic.

If you're always in mobile phone range, or write from home, I imagine any of the others mentioned would do the job.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Yep, Blogger does that.

Its also publishes an RSS feed (which in fairness others do to, but not Sailblogs I think), so that you can automatically have posts flagged in other places like Facebook

 

[jdc]

so do mailasail

There's www.sailblogs.com

I don't know if other sites offer this, but with sailblogs you can post to your blog without having to open a web page. You do it via an email address...

Mailasail (http://blog.mailasail.com) do the same. Comes free with the rest of their services, and seems to work. A feature is that their site apparently recognises position reports and displays them on a world map.

 

[micha571]

We also use Wordpress and have designed more like a website than a blog:

www.teamswashbuckler.com

 

[V1701]

If it's more web site than blog you could have a look at Moonfruit. I've made 4 free sites with it, all to sell boats...

 

[John_Silver]

+1 for Blogger updated one the hoof by BlogPress i-phone app. http://allatseawithstargazer.blogsp...d-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=5
Have fun

 

[Fantasie 19]

Nice blog... pls'd to become your first follower...

 

[jonic]

Forgot to mention I did SWMBO'S book page with blogger too.

 

[Roberto]

I used blogger and found it very easy, but at a certain point it kept on insisting over and over again to change to Chrome, i.e. our blogger site could not be accessed/updated for as long I used Internet Explorer instead of Chrome

I migrated to Chrome and our blogger mini-site became easy to maintain, but I really do not like this type of half-hidden forced persuasion :angry: