Joe Hayes {dot} Org

A few years ago, only those with html knowledge of some sort had a website. With the advent of personal weblogs, also known as blogs, it seems like everyones’ got a site. Whether it’s of the freely hosted kind or on its own domain, blogging has become the fad fueling the hype around “Web 2.0″.

Recently I setup a free blog host using Wordpress Mu and free forum host using CyberAlien’s Script. Perhaps the most important (for both usability and search engine benefits) features is subdomain support. You don’t want your users to be stuck with a url like www.example.com/forums/?mforum=user do you? In addition to simply being ‘prettier’, there are other reasons as to why you’d want something like user.example.com instead.