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Tennessee_Nomad's avatar
Jan 02, 2014

New Blog/photo camping site

I am thinking of doing a website of some sort for the upcoming camping season. Any comments/opinions on a free web hosting site to use? Yeah, I know the free ones have ads but I'm not looking for something professional. Just something to log our travels and post photos. I don't know whether to use something like wordpress.com or wix.com. Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated. I've worked with Dreamweaver a fair bit and know some html, css, and php, but I'm looking for something that's web based, that I can do from my laptop or tablet. Not take too much time away from "camping". Thanks...

-Doug
  • Blogger (also called Blogspot) is simple to set up, easy to add photos to, has a decent editor, and is free. you can post immediately or set an advanced date for your post to appear. There are also free mobile apps that will let you write and post to your Blogger site if not at a computer.

    Store your photos on a free photo site as photo storage is limited but it will take you two years of posts before you come to that limit. Blogger is set up to take the url of a photo location and display it in your article - and you can put as many as you want.

    Take a look at my site linked in my signature. It is on Blogspot.
  • I went with WP and it's a pain to set up. Try one of the free ones. The amount of time for a daily blog post in our nursery business was way too much. If you plan to use it after your trips you will probably be more inclined to keep at it at least for a season. It's a nice way to share with family and friends, if they want to read it they can if not they won't be offending you. It's less personal than emails but you can use a lot more content in your blog pages.
    If you do decide to go with one add it to your signature here at rv.net. I enjoy reading other folks adventures. Good luck.

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