Comments on: Why Have a WordPress.com Blog? Why Not? http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Sat, 25 May 2013 23:02:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: What Do I Do With My New WordPress.com Blog « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-922981 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:33:53 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-922981 [...] Why Have a WordPress.com Blog? Why Not? [...]

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]]> By: serrebi http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-967 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:30:07 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-967 Wooo, google is your friend.

It’s fine, for the most part. I use W.blogger to blog mostly, because I’m lazy, that is, when I feel like blogging, lol. I am not like most of the blind community. If I can use it in anyway posible, it’s accessible to me. On that note, I will say that it is a very easy interface for any blind person to use. I have several blind friends with blogs based off wordpress.
If you need any accessibility testing done, heh, my msn is serrebitranceaddict@hotmail.com and my yahoo, which half the time I’m on , is djserrebi .

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-523 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:34:09 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-523 Serrebi, I’ve been really wanting to know but haven’t had the time to take the interface for a “blind” spin. So how does the new interface with Ajax work for the visually impaired, if you don’t mind my blunt question?

That is something that has worried me from the beginning. I’m a major proponent of accessibility and worked overtime to ensure my main site is top notch when it comes to that, but I have no control over the accessibility issues with WordPress. So I’d love an “expert” opinion!

]]> By: serrebi http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-521 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:24:50 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-521 Frankly I was really excited to find a wordpress host for free. I love the wordpress interface, and now I can blog without worrying about the bandwith, unless I get slashdotted. :P I’m blind, and a good interface is important, that is why b2[22blog], and now wordpress is my fav blogging platform.

]]> By: Ph.uck.D » Let my people go! http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-508 Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:41:32 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-508 [...] ah well, let me go work on some content before i become another one of those wordpress on wordpress bloggers. heh! [...]

]]> By: AnotherFanaticGamer http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-498 Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:38:53 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-498 I was looking for an elite online blog platform. WordPress.com looked sexy since I looked at it for the first time.
Even if it’s still buggy, I love it.
I’m bloggin about playstation 3 and I get lots of daily visits. I’m proud of my wp blog :) .
I’m proud of the “.wordpress.com” keywords. That’s why I use it, when I could buy my own domain.

The only thing I would change on wordpress is to allow us to use javascript, or at least to insert Adsense support. Bye Lorelle :)

]]> By: John http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-490 Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:00:18 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/why-have-a-wordpresscom-blog-why-not/#comment-490 Actually, I had heard alot about WordPress. I had evaluated it along with Blogger, Typepad and Yahoo 360. Frankly, I was intimidated a bit with having to load software onto a remote host. Visions of having to do programming of the site and work on the site rather than just write stuff turned me off to the idea of WordPress. So when I heard about WordPress.com I threw my name in and lo and behold I got an invite! So I started using it and found that I liked it better than the others. And it wasn’t that it was free; I genuinely like the software.

As I was blogging here though, I found that I was yearning to personalize the look of my blog, be able to break up my posts, have the flexibility to do more with photos, and just be able to have the full WordPress feature set. So that led me to taking the dive and actually moving to my own hosted WordPress account (version 1.5 @ the host provider HostMySite.com). The installation was indeed a snap, one click and I was in. However, as I feared, I do have to customize my site and am learning how to do that (it looked really nice in Firefox but the margins were way off in IE).

The moral of my WordPress.com story is that WordPress.com led me to my own WordPress.org hosted site; that wouldn’t have happened without WordPress.com. I’ll happily blog at WordPress.com until I get my WordPress.org site spiffy in IE and Firefox. I guess after that time I’ll just use my WordPress.com site as another place to post on a secondary basis or maybe as a mirror to my main blog. I’m not sure really.

WordPress.com is a good service though with the usual bumps any alpha-ish thing has. It’s fine for someone like me who is starting out and it’s a great way for people to see that WordPress is worth moving to your own hosted site with.

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