Comments on: And now…WordPress

By: Johann Caauwe

Johann Caauwe — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:24:32 +0000

Karen: iWeb was (and is) great for simplicity and ease of use. It’s a hard one to weigh the pros and cons. On the one hand, I liked the flexibility of iWeb. You can just drag things wherever you want. In fact, you could totally change the look of every single page. You don’t have to rely on the templates. But on the other hand, it can be very easy for things to get out of hand. If you make a change on one page of your iWeb site, there is no easy way to make that change across pages. The uniformity of CSS templates makes that more consistent, but you give up the flexibility. I have also found that iWeb sites tend to load more slowly. If you had a really simple blog, maybe iWeb will do the trick. But perhaps it’s not worth the price for MobileMe. I like MobileMe because I use it for much more than that (email, syncing calendars and contacts with the iPhone, BacktoMyMac). But I realized that for now, blogging was best done somewhere else. Now that said, I’m still using iWeb for my church’s web site (www.trinityelpaso.org). That works better, since it’s not as complicated. I love the simplicity of iWeb’s html snippets.

I like WordPress so far. Free hosting is good, though you will note that you won’t be able to put ads on a WordPress.com site. You can do that only if you host WordPress yourself (wordpress.org). You can do that for under $5 a month from some place like GoDaddy.

Hope that helps.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:57:19 +0000

I found you by searching “blogging with iWeb.” I have built what I think is a nice web site there, but I am not sure it will be satisfactory for blogging. I have the iLife suite and SnowLeopard, yet, I am not sure I want to sign up for MobileMe, as the web site and storage is all the use I will get out of it. I want folks to be able to comment on my blog, and I would like to enable Archives and Categories, as well as a couple Google ads in a side bar, plus easily copy the blog to LiveJournal and, possibly Facebook. I like your blog format, and noticed you had originally planned to use iWeb and ended up on WordPress. Did you find that iWeb did not serve you sufficiently? Thanks so much for any help.

By: Erin Riess

Erin Riess — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:56:54 +0000

I receive “A Shepherd’s Story” as an email.

By: Aunt Cheryl

Aunt Cheryl — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:06:28 +0000

I am technology challenged so I read (and enjoy) “A Shepherd’s Story as an e-mail.

By: Cindy R.

Cindy R. — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:37:36 +0000

Good to see you blogging again. I get all my RSS feeds on a My Yahoo page, but I can only read a sentence or two there and so I end up coming to your site to read the full post.

I’ve thought about switching to Google Reader, but don’t want to do the work of setting things up again. Maybe someday.

By: Jeremiah Gumm

Jeremiah Gumm — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:01:55 +0000

Welcome back to the blogosphere, Hans! I look forward to more top-notch, orthodox Lutheran material from your blog.

In response to your request…

- I read your post first in my Google newsreader
- Then I visited your blog through the link on my blog to make sure I had the right URL

Looks great and God’s blessings!

In Christ,
Jeremiah