blog options

I took a look through various blog options. I’ve used wordpress in the past and liked it, but I wanted to see what else was out there.

I read that Penzu had a travel blog setting, but it’s so geared toward private diary-style writing that you don’t even have a blog web address. You have to choose to generate a link for any post you want to share. Definitely not geared toward building a platform.

Medium is a blog site geared toward story telling and sharing, while Svbtle is the sleek, clean, minimalist option. Surfing the net, I saw they were compared to an “us” vs. “I” approach.

Medium is a bit overwhelming imho, and reminded me a lot of Facebook or Ello. But I already have a place where I waste all my time, and I’m afraid Medium would be, for me, another sinkhole. I might get better information spending time on Medium instead of Facebook, but I wouldn’t be in the know about my friends, so, shrug. I’ll stick with what I’m used to in that regard, and skirt the Medium community for now.

Svbtle, which I’m having a hard time spelling even though it should be a simple letter substitution, is what I decided to go with. The main down side is that it costs money. Allegedly it gives you the first two weeks free then charges your card $6/mo until you tell it to stop, but you have to enter card information to get started. I had some trouble getting my first post to publish – you have to save then publish or else it doesn’t work. I also found this helpful to get started:

http://andybrandt531.com/2014/10/svbtle-hints-tricks-review/

especially the tip about how Svbtle has no autosave (noted) and no customer service (got it). Seems like a you-leave-me-alone-I-leave-you-alone approach. I’m down with that. The other thing I realized, being used to wordpress, is that Svbtle does not have any tags or sort or search options that I can find. But you can use simple html for formatting.

Next post will start the travel blogging leg of our journey.

Jobe

Travel Mama