I am a newbie. Obviously. Anyone out there interested in clearing this up for me (and possibly others who read the comments).

Thanks.

Barb

I am a newbie. Obviously. Anyone out there interested in clearing this up for me (and possibly others who read the comments).

Thanks.

Barb

@Jermayn – I just installed in the root, not sure I had to do anything special?

@Jermayn – I just installed in the root, not sure I had to do anything special?

Ok dumb question time.
How do you get the blog from not using the extra folder name like Chris has? When I use WordPress I need to put it in a folder like for example: http://www.chrisg.com/blog

Thanks

Ok dumb question time.
How do you get the blog from not using the extra folder name like Chris has? When I use WordPress I need to put it in a folder like for example: http://www.chrisg.com/blog

Thanks

@Roger – Be careful with fully hosted services, or at least get regular full backups including posts and comments. I have heard of cases recently where even on wordpress.com people have lost all their work when the account has been terminated with no warning and no option for redress. I don’t want to “out” the blogger but there is a discussion thread doing the rounds on one blog email list and it seems no TOS violations, nothing illegal or unethical, just using wordpress.com for business was enough to get the blog pulled.

@Adam – Yes it would be good for someone with time and skills to actually test it

@Rajesh – I agree there is a lot to be said in favour of hosted blogs but the risk of losing everything and the lack of control puts me off right now. WP.com has made great strides but not enough to persuade me YET away from self-hosted.

@Seshu – Always check these things against your own goals, what is good for one blogger might not match your own needs

@Steve – As you can see I have a similar approach, my blog(s) and sales site are seperate and are as seperate in my head too

@Anne-Marie – I agree your blog is representative as the brand you, part of the reason I went with chrisg.com (and chrisg.org by the same token). The further you get from wanting it to represent you I guess the more seperate you need them. I have never written about sex or anything else that might be a time bomb career wise so I can only guess

@shaners – interstitial? With you right up to that point, I don’t think I could ever use an intersitial

@raj – It’s interesting the affect on adsense, I hadn’t considered adsense as a factor but I know many people do, hmmm …

@Roger – Be careful with fully hosted services, or at least get regular full backups including posts and comments. I have heard of cases recently where even on wordpress.com people have lost all their work when the account has been terminated with no warning and no option for redress. I don’t want to “out” the blogger but there is a discussion thread doing the rounds on one blog email list and it seems no TOS violations, nothing illegal or unethical, just using wordpress.com for business was enough to get the blog pulled.

@Adam – Yes it would be good for someone with time and skills to actually test it

@Rajesh – I agree there is a lot to be said in favour of hosted blogs but the risk of losing everything and the lack of control puts me off right now. WP.com has made great strides but not enough to persuade me YET away from self-hosted.

@Seshu – Always check these things against your own goals, what is good for one blogger might not match your own needs

@Steve – As you can see I have a similar approach, my blog(s) and sales site are seperate and are as seperate in my head too

@Anne-Marie – I agree your blog is representative as the brand you, part of the reason I went with chrisg.com (and chrisg.org by the same token). The further you get from wanting it to represent you I guess the more seperate you need them. I have never written about sex or anything else that might be a time bomb career wise so I can only guess

@shaners – interstitial? With you right up to that point, I don’t think I could ever use an intersitial

@raj – It’s interesting the affect on adsense, I hadn’t considered adsense as a factor but I know many people do, hmmm …

So I vote for subdirectory now, having tried subdomains. On the other hand, if you are setting up a portal, then subdomains work very nicely. As well, if all your subdomains are very popular, then most of what I’ve said above is moot.

So I vote for subdirectory now, having tried subdomains. On the other hand, if you are setting up a portal, then subdomains work very nicely. As well, if all your subdomains are very popular, then most of what I’ve said above is moot.

Maybe have the blog on a separate host from the parent site? I think in this way using the blog to brand the home site might be a bit easier with Se’s?
Or just screw the SE’s altogethor and buy a whack of traffic for the blog. Use an interstitial to promote blog. Or when someone exits the parent site have an exit page. I donno theres quite a few options….
just .o2$
Cheers and Beers From canada.
Shane

Maybe have the blog on a separate host from the parent site? I think in this way using the blog to brand the home site might be a bit easier with Se’s?
Or just screw the SE’s altogethor and buy a whack of traffic for the blog. Use an interstitial to promote blog. Or when someone exits the parent site have an exit page. I donno theres quite a few options….
just .o2$
Cheers and Beers From canada.
Shane