Wordpress

I should add that I’m not that technical, so a solution that is easy to use would be more appropriate of the two.

The website will work in a similar way to gumtree’s classified ads. If this is possible would I also be able to add a charging mechanism for the ads using Joomla or Wordpress.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks.

I would recommend to not to think of Joomla as for this to maintain you need to be high-tech. It would be very-inconvenient to you as it is bit complex.

Again I would not recommend to use WordPress ( though I am a great fan of it ) as its free version ( *.wordpress.com ) would not allow you to place your ads and you would not be able to earn. For hosting Ads you will have to go for self-hosted version of Wordpress which will bring a lot of trouble beside hosting free and domain registration fee.

For you best bet is "Blogger", so go to www.blogger.com where you will get everything you want with no limitation and no tension.

But if this project matters a lot to you and you wanna go far ahead with this, also willing to pay something initially, wanna have your brand name ( site name of your choice ) etc. then you should go with self hosted wordpress blog.

Any way Blogger is the best bet for you right now.

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