At Octimum we believe honesty is best. For that reason, we often recommend the popular open source blogging platform - wordpress. If you are only in need of a small website, blog or a small community between you and your friends, often professional website design is not suitable.
Wordpress is a great platform for having a self hosted blog that includes all the features you would expect such as comments, online administration and much more. In fact, with the extensive wordpress plugin directory, if you can think of something you want to do, the chances are you can do it.
From wordpress.org:
[Wordpress] has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
The number one reason people shy away from wordpress is the fact that the setup can be a demanding task for someone who doesn't understand the basics of web development (ie FTP, webservers, domain names etc). For that reason, we are proud to offer an Install & Setup service to these customers. For a small fee we will set up your new wordpress blog or website on your hosting server - and if you dont have one, we will help you find one. We have three different packages available for this and you can find out about them below.