It is spread around because I am a moderator on three forums. I like GW because it has a huge audience, but I don't like their way of banning people arbitrarily. I feel like I'm walking on pins and needles here. I was banned from a plumbing site once because I had an opinion about a toilet that differed from the guy's major sponsor. I have a little of that fear here.

Websites are easy for me. I maintain the one for the compost tea maker that you are probably familiar with and another one for a local summer swim team that my daughters used to swim on. I don't know much about blogs.

I don't mind repeating because I get feedback from more of a variety of people that way. Do you have a link to a blog that you like the format of? I don't know that I've ever been to a blog. Then again I didn't know I was using RSS in iGoogle until someone pointed it out.

What's new? The only things that might be new are what I have changed my mind on recently. The first thing that comes to mind is my opinion on compost. I used to think it was highly important. Then I changed my mind on that to believe it was unimportant and a huge waste of money. More recently I have gone back to it being important but not for the usual reasons. I think it is important to have it on the surface of the soil to absorb both ammonia gas from decomposing protein and humidity.

What am I up to? I don't talk about that. You can probably find me on Twitter but not on Facebook. I have accounts on both but the privacy settings on Facebook are better.

Okay I have seen blogs. I hate the format. I was hoping you had some other format in mind.

What type of formats do you like? Maybe you can show me something and I can give you another suggestion?

The reason I suggested a blog is because it's one of the easiest ways to get articles online in a site you control without having to pay for hosting.

All three of those were on blogger.com. As I mentioned wordpress has a few more features if you don't care about advertising or are willing to pay a small monthly fee for hosting. Here's an example of a more complicated Wordpress theme to give you an idea. Here's one more.

Some people think you need to post every day but that's not true. Just start putting up articles whenever you can and categorize them in a way that makes it easy for people to find. The only downside is I believe you only have a single level of categories, no subcategories, but there are ways to work around that.

I'm not an expert but if there's any thing I can do to help just ask.

Several of us started a new lawn forum over the winter. I like the forum format but we needed a place to post articles, too. So we created a home page for that. I'm a moderator on another forum where the owner has started a blog as one of the forums. I've never looked at it because he called it a blog. Plus, I tend to argue with the guy about organic gardening so that's not cool. It would just raise my blood pressure to read his blog.