Comments on: Choosing the Best Location for Your New Blog

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:55:14 +0000

@Ajith: Yes, hosting may play a part in this decision. ie. If its not more expensive to give a blog its own domain, then that is one less reason to host it on a preexisting domain…

@Jen: I am glad this article helped. Actually, I said that this was the obvious solution for us, to add the blog on this site. But we did think about adding it to a domain that we have “SpicedBlue.com”. I am glad that we decided against it.

@Ben: Wow, you wouldn’t use WP for a website? I’ve built several WP-driven websites. And I find that it is a robust CMS because of the API. I have yet to find a website which couldn’t be easily built on WP.

Of course, a custom CMS may be more suitable for your purposes. I wrote my own little CMS a while back which was great, except WP is better because of the community and the variety of plugins that you can addon to extend the functionality.

@Kurt: Yes, I find that some people often use the subdirectory instead of the subdomain because the linking structure is more natural. And also, when linking between the two, Google often separates a subdomain from the main domain.

@Nihar: Well, I see you just changed your blog. Complete overhaul.

As for changing the location, it is pretty simple. For the most part, you’d just need to update your settings. But why would you want to do that? Are you planning something new for the ‘main area’ of your website?

By: Nihar

Nihar — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:56:25 +0000

my website is in the root. When i started my blog, i didn’t think to put that under /blog/

How hard it is to change now?

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:48:23 +0000

I think if its a new blog to be integrated with a website, the best is to have a subdomain. I feel a subdomain look more professional then a directory. Just my views.

Else if its a blog which is to be separate from the website, its better to buy a new domain… or another domain somehow similar to the website one and host it on the new domain.

By: Ben Barden - Blog Tips

Ben Barden - Blog Tips — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:30:22 +0000

I have several blogs, some using WordPress, some using Injader (my home-grown open source CMS). I find that WordPress is good for blogs, but Injader works better for websites. You can use WordPress for a website, but I wouldn’t use it for anything but the most basic site. Just my preference

By: Jen Patton

Jen Patton — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:36:11 +0000

I only have blogs at this time- no websites but getting ready to start looking into one. My business partner and I were talking the other day trying to answer just this question as we want to have a blog to go along with it.

We want to have a blog or two that complements but the theme not necessarily matches it so this answers our questions to a “T”. Thanks

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:50:16 +0000

In my case dollarshower is already a sub domain of one of my old websites. The reason was that I could host unlimited domains in my hosting plan only via this method.

As you said, it made sense for you to integrate it to your website that provide the overal business profile and a bunch of services as well.