Blogs, webhosts and IWeb 09

Hello All,
I have a website hosted on Host Papa. I use a domain name (.com) that I pay for and I use iWeb 09. I've been using that for about a year now and all is good.
Now I have registered a second .com name and I want to build a second website. On this second website I want to have a blog. If I use iWeb 09 and my current host is it true that every time I add a new entry to my blog I have to update the entire site? Is it easier to use a MM account? Can I have my Host Papa site and another site on MM?
Which method is better or faster?
Thanks,
Mike

Michael Ryan. wrote:
If I make my second site on iWeb 09 can I then put a link on that site for my blog on another site (so you would just click on it and it would take you to the other site like WordPress)?
Mike ~ Yes, see this Apple doc: _Creating hyperlinks_. Also, Posterous has a special blog widget you can probably add to your iWeb site via iWeb's +HTML Snippet+ window — see HERE.
Michael Ryan. wrote:
What is the best or some of the best free blog sites?
I don't know about being "the best", but for simplicity Posterous is hard to beat and if you want more features such as TABS, there's WordPress.
Michael Ryan. wrote:
I also want to put a podcast link on my blog site as well...how easy or hard is that to do?
I think a podcast link is just a URL, so I suppose it's as easy as setting up a hyperlink — _this article_ shows examples of podcast URLs.

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