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Please note that this site is now out of date and has been replaced by Google Workspace: a Practical Guide. If you came here from a link, please update the link accordingly. If you have any questions, please email itsupport@york.ac.uk FAO the DISC team.
The Blogger blogging service http://www.blogger.com/ can be used with your York credentials right now. You can use blogs to create simple diary or news-like web sites. Blogs can be used as public marketing, for departmental news or for personal reflection.
Note: Although integrated with your York Google account, it is not fully integrated with York Google Apps. This means that you can't limit access of your blog to "Just People at the University of York" or your department.
Once you've created your blog, Blogger offers easy to use tools to add content, images and change the layout and colours both using your browser and on mobile.
Getting Started
Setting up a blog is fairly intuitive, but If you would like any guidance in understanding how you could make blogs work for you, or in setting your blog up the way you'd like, get in touch with Tom Smith tom.smith@york.ac.uk
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Visit the Google Blogger support pages
Some examples of Blogger blogs currently in use at York include:
You can search for blogs that might be of interest to you using Google's Blog Search Engine.
But Why Not Wordpress?
Having looked at Wordpress, in depth, both as a local install and as SoftwareAsAService we found it lacking in certain areas.
Integration with our authentication system was non-trivial.
Having reliable backup, testing, development and restoring options was an overly large investment of effort.
The end-user experience necessarily offers less usability / functionality / plugins / design options than a self-hosted alternative.
Maintenance, particular caching and spam protection, would be ongoing challenges.
You are of course free to use the Wordpress.com service or install the free open-source Wordpress on your own hosting provider.
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