# Can someone suggest a simple, accessible blogging site?

Category: Let's talk

## Post 1 by Skyla (move over school!) on Sunday, 13-May-2012 15:22:45

I'm considering blogging about my training experience when I go to get my next guide dog, and am trying to decide which blog site to use. The ones I see most often are blogger and blogspot. Any thoughts on the accessibility front? I'm by no means very techy, so a relatively simple interface would be ideal. Like I don't need a site that'll allow me to blog using morse code using my toaster.
Thanks in advance!

## Post 2 by season (the invisible soul) on Sunday, 13-May-2012 19:12:02

Blogger and blogspot are one of the most accessible and strate forward blogs around. you can also try wordpress which is wordpress.com and livejournal www.livejournal.com

## Post 3 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Monday, 14-May-2012 3:02:06

I really wouldn't advise people use Livejournal nowadays. It used to be good, but these days it keeps getting cyberattacked by the Russians or somebody so is not always up. I would have a look over on
www.dreamwidth.org
Some folks say that site is like Livejournal before the changes. That's unfortunately the only one I have any experience with as an actual user.

## Post 4 by Skyla (move over school!) on Monday, 14-May-2012 4:46:16

Hmmm, thanks for the feedback. Although I didn't know the Russians were all up in livejournal's grill, I know it's declined in popularity over the last few years. I'm definitely going to check out blogger and blogspot. I only hope that my blogging won't be in vain, and that people would genuinely be interested in reading a training blog. I know I'm currently trying to scour the internet for training blogs, myself.

## Post 5 by season (the invisible soul) on Monday, 14-May-2012 6:59:42

I've not use Livejournal for years. I know it used to be quite popular within the blind community, definitely seems to be so within the zone community.

## Post 6 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Monday, 14-May-2012 11:55:10

If you want to use Blogger, set up your email so it will let you send posts by email.
Then you can use your email software to write your blog post, works great especially for a journal type situation. And it's device-independent so if you email from your phone, PDA or computer, it'll work.
I imagine if you follow through with this, you could end up helping a lot of people, since the blogosphere doesn't have much on this sort of situation.

## Post 7 by Skyla (move over school!) on Monday, 14-May-2012 12:55:13

Oh wow, you can send posts by e-mail? that seems really handy. Is setting that up really complicated?

## Post 8 by Siriusly Severus (The ESTJ 1w9 3w4 6w7 The Taskmaste) on Thursday, 23-Aug-2012 2:30:22

yeah, I use blogspot. too and blogger is the same thing by the way, there's been hacking issues with the wordpress stuff too, something about an unsafe platform and too much controls for everyone. so. yeah, blogger is probably the best one.

## Post 9 by Master Alex Matthew SARcastic (Account disabled) on Saturday, 25-Aug-2012 6:57:42

I don't know any blog sites but I use Facebook and consider it my Blog site :)

## Post 10 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Sunday, 26-Aug-2012 21:14:02

Yeah, I don't like the way Wordpress is laid out, either. It has a lot of clutter, and you can't navigate by headings the way you can with Blogger. I've been wanting to set up a blog for awhile myself, I just didn't know how accessible Blogger was, but this email thing sounds nice. Do you have to use something like Outlook to make it work?

## Post 11 by booklover256 (Veteran Zoner) on Thursday, 06-Sep-2012 15:00:04

I blogged my whole training experience on livejournal. I think the web site is brianna2393.livejournal.com if you are looking to read some.

## Post 12 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 06-Sep-2012 16:44:24

Blogger has an iPhone app also now, and it works for managing and writing your posts.
I imagine the Androids have it also.