Multimedia blog/website host ideas

[halfmanhalfbrisket]

Happy new year all..

I'm looking at setting up an online portfolio for some of my music work.. I also do some music related writing, so I was thinking of setting up of a form of blog and include SoundCloud/Vimeo/YouTube players for music and video posts..
I'm not at all expecting it to be massive and get loads of hits, it's more of an appendix for my CV where I can have things in one place to view.. like a MySpace page used to be like but not as clunky..

So, does anyone have any experience with this type of thing? I've looked at things like Blogger but it'd be interesting to see your thoughts on alternatives

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[markmh]

hi, yes i do.

currently i write/edit 3 blogs, two business and one personal. I use both wordpress and joomla. if its just a blog type online presence your looking for i would suggest wordpress as its probably the easiest. If its a full on website i would suggest joomla.

if you go with wordpress you can either host it yourself (you will need a hosting package) or you can let wordpress host it for you.

If your new to it all its easier to let wordpress host it for you meaning your blog address will be www.yourname.wordpress.com.

for examples of wordpress blogs you can go to www.malthouseengineering.com/blog for one of the work ones i do or for something which is similar to what your talking about you can go to mine which is http://markmhayward.co.uk which is, like yours might be a cv type blog for me.

i have set up other in the past with the aim of generating income, some have been successful, some havent but if your just looking for a cv style one, with the free software out there it will be a relatively simple thing to set up.

if needed i can provide more suggestions on the setup, as im sure others on here can as well.

 

[halfmanhalfbrisket]

That's great markmh, thanks very much.. I'll have a look around and report back

 

[Toble]

if its just a blog type online presence your looking for i would suggest wordpress as its probably the easiest. If its a full on website i would suggest joomla.

I wish I'd started the company site I run using Joomla instead of hacking it together using Wordpress. It has now become a real nightmare to admin. Things are spread over Pages and Posts, a punbb forum, an external WP blog and some home-written photo gallery stuff. Still, its better than using Thingamablog, which one of my sites still runs a heavily hacker version of.

 

[markmh]

if its just a blog type online presence your looking for i would suggest wordpress as its probably the easiest. If its a full on website i would suggest joomla.

I wish I'd started the company site I run using Joomla instead of hacking it together using Wordpress. It has now become a real nightmare to admin. Things are spread over Pages and Posts, a punbb forum, an external WP blog and some home-written photo gallery stuff. Still, its better than using Thingamablog, which one of my sites still runs a heavily hacker version of.

tell me about it, i have tried a few times to get a wordpress site up and running with the functionality i want but just cant, for a blogging based site its excellent but for a full on site joomla beats it easily, the extensions make it far more flexible and the html coding i find alot easier to edit compared to the php of wordpress. In fact i would say joomlas turned website editing/creating into a pleasure when compared to things like frontpage. I now run both, a joomla site linked to a wordpress blog - best of both worlds.

 

[wizzard]

Yes because wordpress was never designed to be a CMS, that's why the devs leave it to third parties to try and hack things together