I get no less than 2 or 3 requests a week from friends asking what my recommendation is for them to setup their own personal website or blog to showcase their family photos or post entries to the web. I usually point them to a few sites like Pleth you have access to our developers to assist you in deploying Plugins and further extending your blog to add features like photo galleries, etc. Of course our developers charge an hourly fee for doing these updates, but at the end of the day this is a lot easier to justify than spending hours on a support forum or developers community looking for support and then still having to do your maintenance yourself.
These are just two of the things that I often bring up to my friends who ask me for suggestions prior to establishing their own personal website. I have nothing in the world against these free services, I think that they serve their purpose on the web and fill a void that was there a few years before they came upon the scene. At Pleth we typically service Small Business and Enterprise Level Development projects that consist of custom applications. With that being said that doesn’t mean that we don’t occasionally take on high level blog projects for political candidates, musicians, authors, etc., we even develop corporate blogs for our clients from time to time as add-ons to their existing web presence.
If you are serious about establishing a personal website or blog, please feel free to contact us regarding your project and we would be more than happy to discuss your project and give you a quote for developing your project.
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