[viiagrag]

ok, here is the deal. My friend wants to start a blog about electronics (he is doing a degree in electronics). I recommended he finds a blogging website and start there. He said no, he wants to put adsense on it and make money. I tell him that in the beginning his blog isn't going to have many visitors and he may well lose money due to hosting costs, at which point he looks at me funny like he doesn't know what hosting costs are... Anyway I tell him then it might be worth looking on the internet for blogging software since some has probably been already written. He says he wants to write it himself, only thing I can think to tell him then is to check out dreamweaver which I know nothing about but think its some kind of website creation software... or something.

The thing is that today he came up to me and said he had decided to write his website in php and he wants me to help him install linux on his computer "because i've heard it's better for that kind of stuff". I'm gonna help him install ubuntu anyway, but... i'm pretty sure that installing linux is not going to give you magical programming skills and using a blogging website or blogging software would be much better. The thing is I know nothing about blogging or creating websites myself so I'm not really sure whether it really is as stupid as I think it is. What should my advice to him be?