What is Weblog "Blog" Software?

Weblog software (also called blog software or blogware) is software designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of weblogs. As specialized content management systems, weblog applications support the authoring, editing, and publishing of blog posts and comments, with special functions for image management, web syndication, and moderation of posts and comments.

Many weblog applications can be downloaded and installed on user systems. Some of these are provided under free-software and open-source licenses, allowing them to be used, modified, and redistributed freely. Others are proprietary software which must be licensed for a fee, although free-of-charge versions may also be available.

Can I Blog with InfoQuest?

Sure you can and you have more than one choice.

One option is WordPress

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee.

How to Install WordPress

InfoQuest WN-200S web hosting customers can install WordPress directly from the Application Vault in their customer control panel. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything.

Another option is Sitebuilder

Sitebuilder is a browser-based website creation and editing application, included with all InfoQuest web hosting accounts,  that provides an effortless way to create, modify and update websites without any technical HTML know-how.

5 Easy Steps from the Web

Quickly create and publish websites in five simple steps.

• Start - First, you select the type of the site you would like to create.
• Design - In the next step, you can select from hundreds of quality templates using the new and improved template selection interface.  Plus, you can customize the site design by selecting colors, headers, and logos. 
• Pages - Next, you can define the site structure and select various page sets. There are drag and drop capabilities for modules and pages so you can define your site hierarchy. 
• Edit - During the edit step, you create content using the newly improved WYSIWYG editor.  In addition, you have the capability to drag and drop modules into the page content directly.
• Publish - Finally, you can instantaneously publish your site directly to your InfoQuest hosting account using automatic publishing settings.

Why InfoQuest? What Makes InfoQuest so Different?

Something thats not readily apparent before you select a web hosting provider is the type of service you receive.  At InfoQuest, we take pride in providing prompt courteous service to all of our customers.  

Whether you have a starter level hosting package like the WN-100S, have 150 hosted Exchange mailboxes, or have an entire rack of equipment co-located at InfoQuest --our sales, support, and billing team are just a phone call, email or chat away.  

We're a hosting company that's geared toward providing great customer support and we've been doing it with the same team in place since 1994.  You'll learn to know us by name.  When you call for help or to ask a question you'll get sound answers and honest advice.  You'll find comfort knowing that were here to help.

In addition to friendly down home support, we've also made great investments in the infrastructure and systems we use to deliver a world class hosting solution.  With solutions from web hosting to complex virtualization for disaster recovery, our team has been working in the data center now for over 25 years and we know how to get the job done.

Try us and you'll see why the majority of our business is word of mouth.  Customers telling customers...letting each other know the value they've found with hosting solutions from InfoQuest.

About InfoQuest

Since 1994, more than 10,000 customers worldwide have used InfoQuest Hosted Internet Business Solutions to communicate on-line, manage computers, and safeguard mission critical information. From the beginning, InfoQuest has proven to be a nimble, responsive, resilient company. Characteristics that provide our customers with innovative business solutions, dependable support and a trusted business partner. Today, just as in 1994, we're committed to the philosophy of growth as a company through the service of one customer at a time.

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