I was invited to speak to a graduate class on getting started with blogging. I put this slide deck together to accompany my talk:
I covered some basics of how the web works as well as some basics of design before turning to how to sign up and set up a basic blog in WordPress.com and Wix. I’m fond of WordPress, for a lot of reasons. I use it to maintain this blog. But the hosted service (i.e., the dot-com vs the dot-org versions) is a slightly different beast. Wix has a more streamlined onboarding process which I enjoyed and definitely would appeal to people new to setting up websites. I’d still recommend WordPress over Wix, due to their marketshare and my familiarity with the platform and its history.