Easy publishing tools for online journalists
Put your site online, without much money or tech effort, using these blog and content management tools
To help you learn some of these skills and start experimenting with online journalism, we’ve assembled a list of sites and programs that will help you quickly and easily begin using multimedia and the internet to advance your reporting and your storytelling. All of these applications are low-cost. Most are free, though some ask you to pay to access advanced functionality. All are free of spyware and adware, as far as we know (though it is always good to do an Internet search on anything you download and install to be sure). And each should make the work of creating great journalism online at least a little easier.
Free Domain Hosting, one free email and one free domain
If you bring in readers we will BUY you a domain for free and set it up based. If you make us $45 we will spend $45 on you. We will take care of the setup, hosting and cms costs and give it to you for free. On top of that we will split your profits 50/50. Why we would we do this?
Want your own site? But don't want to earch $45 dollars. You can pay us to setup your account for a one time fee of $100 dollars that includes one years worth of hosting, bandwidth, one domain and one email address. After that just pay us $30 / year. You can still make that back by earning revenue from your sites. To be honest, by using our system and SEO techniques and as little as one short article per week you will make at least $5 / month. Some of our users are making $300/year on doing what they enjoy. Start Today!!
Another advantage of owning and hosting your site at Publishing Writing is you have the ability to ad pages to your site. This is very helpful if you are starting up your own business and want to create your very own online site with no technical hassles.
Free Domain Hosting
Already own a domain, point your domain to us and you can use our free services and start to collect revenue from online advertising. Just redirect your domain or sub.domain to 142.59.92.231 and email cooper88@telus.net with your domain information. You must first setup an account. If you are an existing member, please tell us your user name. Check out our current users.
Free Blog and Content Management Systems
When it comes to quickly and easily putting the results of your reporting on the web, nothing is easier and more straightforward than using paid hosted blog. Blog software is great for easy publishing, and it is flexible enough that you can use it to create all kinds of sites, not just the web journals for which it was originally designed. Any of these sites will allow you to get your journalism on the Internet quickly and easily, but each strikes a different balance between ease-of-use and power of features.
Putting Pictures on the Web For Free
PublishingWriting.net lets you upload pictures, tag them (assign categories that you define), place them in groups called sets, and then serve them out to your blog or web site from publishingwriting.net.
Free Discussion forums
Keep in mind, though, that there are only so many people in these communities answering questions, and it is usually something they do in their spare time. Make sure to search through the other posts to see if your question has already been answered, and don't be discouraged if no one gets back to your first attempt at seeking help.
Creating Free RSS Feeds
You could even keep updating the feed after you publish the article, if people remain interested. And for power users, Del.icio.us has a great page of third party tools and developer resources to help you push the site's limits.