Date: 8/27/26 10:48 am From: Zoey Greenberg <zoeytalon...> Subject: Re: Birding blog question
Hi Don,
Unlike you, I am notably challenged in the IT/tech department, and even so
have been able to run a bird blog for RRF off of Wordpress fairly easy. It’s
user-friendly in my opinion. However, RRF has a subscription so there are a
lot of creation tools at my disposal that may not be available otherwise.
Squarespace and Wix are also worth checking out. I’ve played around with
both. If I recall, Wix is the cheapest / free.
Here is an article written on Medium (another platform for getting your
words out) that compares the three platforms with pros and cons etc.
Hope this is a little helpful!
Zoey
On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 11:31 Don Kiel <
<00000ff91fe3ef40-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As a semi-retirement project (still working a bit!) I would like to start
> a not-for-profit online birding blog where I could write, share photos, and
> especially present some of the data I have recorded for over 15 years on
> birds in our area of Gray Woods - sort of a citizen science presentation
> platform with a healthy dose of (hopefully) interesting graphics and
> pattern analysis. I don't want to spend a lot of money on this, but I know
> good platform software and registrations would have an initial cost along
> with renewals. I'm pretty decent with IT and graphics in general but
> haven't done a blog before. It's been suggested to me that WordPress might
> be a good choice. I'd like to ask the group for any advice you can offer.
> Thanks very much!
>
> Don Kiel
> <skyco26...>
>
