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Blog, personal webpage or what?

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GanChan

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I'm thinking about creating a casual little web "nook" for my creative writing past and present, and thoughts related to creative stuff in general. (I would want this to be a separate thing from my current marketing-writing website and blog.)

I created a Blogger blog and have started drafting individual rants, old bits of fiction, etc. as posts. But before I hit the "publish" button, I'm now wondering whether it would be worth it to put together a very basic homepage or mini-website instead (using Google Sites etc.) I could then attach the already-populated blog to it at some point. And tweet links to updates, etc.

What do you think? Use the site as a permanent portfolio collection, and the blog to throw the spotlight onto individual items? Or I guess the compromise strategy is to just add pages to the Blogger blog as needed to things out?

Any ideas welcome.
 
If you want a professional looking site and don't have knowledge about building a website, then you can check out Squarespace or similar service.
https://www.squarespace.com/

I have a self-built personal custom website with a purchased domain and hosting. It's definitely nice to have my little space on the Internet where I can showcase my work.
 
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AlliFlowers said:
I use Wix for my domain, and Google Sites for school. Either are more than adequate for blogging and sharing your writing. Both are easy to use.
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Looks like embedding a Blogger blog into the newest version of Google Sites is super-easy and requires no additional plug-ins or extensions, so I imagine I'll just go with that combo....
 
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I'm building a site in Google Sites right now,and i noticed that if I hit Publish, the site goes live as https://sites.google.com/[a bunch of other stuff] from Google Drive. So I guess my next step is to go over to someplace like Bluestar to purchase domain/hosting (unless I'm content with "sites.google.com" as my domain)? Then back to Sites to tie the new website to the new domain?

Pardon my ignorance. i rarely do this stuff.
 
GanChan said:
I'm building a site in Google Sites right now,and i noticed that if I hit Publish, the site goes live as https://sites.google.com/[a bunch of other stuff] from Google Drive. So I guess my next step is to go over to someplace like Bluestar to purchase domain/hosting (unless I'm content with "sites.google.com" as my domain)? Then back to Sites to tie the new website to the new domain?

Pardon my ignorance. i rarely do this stuff.
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When you do your site, on your home page in the upper left it starts with "Untitled Site." If you name it here, your site can at least be sites.google.com/GanChanBlog, or whatever you name it.
 
Could I pretty easily migrate the site from sites.google.com/... to a dedicated domain later? Just do a redirect through the new host?
 
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