Best blog address?

Cameron

I've used my blog (blog.cameronswinton.com) only occasionally but plan to start using it more - my question is regarding the best address/domain to use for the blog. Please ignore the lack of content and design I have there currently - it's under construction. Ideally I'd probably prefer to use "www.cameronswinton.com/blog" but with my CNAME for my domain pointing to smugmug I can't do that. So, I've been using the "blog" subdomain which works well. A while ago I registered the domain "cameronswinton.me" and have considered using that to host my blog as it's more interesting and personal than the blog subdomain. My concern is that using a different domain extension would result in confusion. The lack of awareness regarding domain extensions other than .com is also a concern. Thoughts?
Note - my site serves as both my personal/artistic portfolio and my business site. As my full-time job is, well, more than full-time :huh , photography is often more of a hobby than anything. I mention this as I intend to use my blog for more than just entries related to the commercial side of my photography.

Thoughts? :dunno

BradfordBenn

I would ask why not just update your CNAME to get your domain "back"? Might be the easiest way to do it. Then host your domain and blog elsewhere with a point back to Smugmug from your main domain where appropriate.

Cameron

BradfordBenn wrote:

I would ask why not just update your CNAME to get your domain "back"? Might be the easiest way to do it. Then host your domain and blog elsewhere with a point back to Smugmug from your main domain where appropriate.

I'm not quite sure I understand what you're suggesting... I may not have been very clear about my current domain setup -- I WANT to keep my main domain (cameronswinton.com) as my smugmug domain. This requires I have my CNAME pointed to smugmug. As far as I know I can't host subfolders (ie cameronswinton.com/blog) on a different server than the one where the CNAME is pointing. With a subdomain (blog.cameronswinton.com) I can create an A Record to direct the blog subdomain to a different server where my blog is hosted (what I'm doing now without any problems).

My question was simply what people thought about using use cameronswinton.me vs blog.cameronswinton.com for my personal/photo blog (given that I'll continue to use cameronswinton.com for my smugmug gallery)

BradfordBenn

Sorry, I misunderstood the question. I think that the subdomain approach of blog.cameronswinton.com would be easier for most people to associate to your domain.