MrCzWorld is a true blog by definition of what most
people consider a ’blog’; it is not however the limit of what you can do with one.
This project is more elemental in respect to ease of use and accessibility,
updating and maintenance. I operate another, one that started as a simple blog
and very quickly morphed into a webpage before ever being viewed by the public.
There is an easy explanation for this, storage space, and how much storage you
require depends a great deal on what you plan to use the blog for. In the case
of MrCzWorld it would (and will) remain largely text based, meaning I won’t
require extra storage for large image files and video. My webpage on the other
hand required a great deal of space and more importantly, management of that
storage that I had no ambition to deal with.
A blog like ‘this one’, that is one that could be
used in a classroom (on a school budget), would by necessity be limited to what
could be both useful and affordable. When you plan to pull out almost all of
the stops as I have done with rememberthispoint.com it becomes inherently more
complex and expensive. So, when planning on using a media vehicle like a blog
you must give real consideration to future use, anything free will most assuredly
become one of three things quickly: 1. You will run out of space 2. and/or you will be
required to rent or buy storage 3.over capacitate and have to move into a more ‘professional
set-up’ which could cause an enormous amount of work. Plan ahead, domain names
are difficult to come by (good, unused ones that is), and if you are a school
teacher operating a bunch of small free blogs could turn against you quickly.
It is better to run one good encompassing webpage or blog than a half dozen
poorly maintained and rarely updated smaller ones, you will lose your audience. -BC
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