Medium is a manageable website platform with a specialty in blog formatting. It is great for creating your own personal blog, while simultaneously viewing others' sites all around the world.

Weebly is a Web Publishing Service with a straightforward database. The site allows users to pick a template and drag and drop text and images.

WordPress is an open-source content management system providing two different web formatting services designed for a range of website developers. WordPress.com contains pre-made templates to assist beginner users creating simple blogs or websites. WordPress.org allows more advanced developers to have free range on the design and templates of their websites.

The Lab’s web publishing & hosting service is available for students, faculty and staff to develop digital projects, scholarship, and textbooks. Examples include interactive websites, public-facing student writing, open-access scholarly publications, and open education resources. The Lab can provide approximately 3GB of shared web hosting for three (3) years. We can install and host web publishing applications that use a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

The lab recommends reclaim hosting, which has affordable rates for web hosting and a host of applications for scholarship.