Choosing a Blogging System

Starting a blog was on my todo list for long time. Few days ago, I felt an urge to tackle it. I initially subscribed to wordpress, as many would do, after a quick search in google . But then I wised up..

I searched a little harder and figured that for reasons very well explained on the "how to Blog" blog, I better put my own system up. This way, if I ever want to change the blog or my server host, I can do it without redirections.

But which blogging software shall I use? Many systems, opinions, and blogging related forums. I found what I needed at opensourcecms.com. Opensourcecms.com has a list of many of the available open source cms's and lets you test drive them with admin rights. Users vote and give feedback.

After checking the features, reading the feedback and trying out each system, I decided to go for the Serendipity blog cms. It looks clean, it's easy to setup, has hundreds of useful plugins, and seems to have many happy users. I hope I'll be one of them.

If you are trying to find a good open source blog system, give Serendipity a try at the opensourcecms demo site. If you do, the username is "admin" and password is "demo".