custom blogs

If you don't have a knack for design or don't have the time for the set up of a blog you can always find someone who does. There are some people out there that will design your blog for you, but its for a price. The Design Girl Studio will customize a blogger site for $75 dollars and this includes a custom template, custom header, recoloring of text and links and a custom blog template. She also has many other services available like logo design, stationary, and print.
http://thedesigngirlstudio.blogspot.com/ Check out her stuff here.

Types of blogs

A business blog is very professional looking it usually contains the color scheme of the business so that it ties in with everything else.

A portfolio blog includes examples and images of what the person has created or done. It also tells what they can do and a little about themselves

Five tutorial blogs

• WpRecipes.com
• www.vectordiarys.com
• Indesignsecrets.com
• http://premiere-pro-tutorials.blogspot.com/
• http://webtutorialtool.blogspot.com/

free vs paid blogs

The advantages of a paid blog are:

• control of domain name
• control over design
• unlimited amount of space
• can different tools to site

The disadvantages of a paid blog are:

• you have to pay for the service
• more complicated to set up

The advantages of a free blog are:

• its free
• not much set up time
• easy to manage
• hosting is on the server not on you

The disadvantages of a free blog are:

• limited amount of templates
• tools are limited
• don't own the blog space
• limited space

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Blogger vs Wordpress

• Wordpress has more storage than blogger does. 
• In Blogger you can edit the templates but can make limited changes while with wordpress you can make as many changes as you want or you can choose form 100+ themes.
• In wordpress you are able to upgrade and get more storage and editing capabilities.
• You don't need to find a host for blogger but you do for wordpress.

Why we Blog...

I think that blogging is extremely beneficial not only for students but for businesses and freelancers. It keeps people updated with the work we do almost daily or however often people update.  It also allows each individual a chance to express their own personality in their blog. Blogging is just a great way to get your name out there and displays your work in a creative way so that anyone and everyone and see.

Class Home Page and Personal Home page

First Assigment is Multimedia Authoring

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