JoomlaWorks has fielded two very interesting solutions for blogging in Joomla - K2 and Superblogger.  K2 is free and can be used for a whole lot more than just blogging.  Superblogger is cheap - about $11 CDN - and is specifically designed for blogging.

So if you want to add a blog to your existing Joomla site or start a new blog-style Joomla site from scratch, which is the better option?

K2 is a pretty amazing new extension for Joomla developed by JoomlaWorks, a long-standing creator of top quality Joomla extensions, including the free and very popular Simple Image Gallery and AllVideos plugins.

We've been playing around with K2 here at SQC for the past couple of weeks and decided to give it a test run as our blogging platform.  The blog post you're reading right now was authored using K2. 

The traditional way of creating a blog in Joomla was to create a "blog" section and then multiple categories within that section covering various subjects that blog posts would be organized into.  To create a post, you'd create a new article, assign it to the blog section, and put it into a category.  And then write your content and upload and insert any photos.  Then you'd set the article to published, save it, and voila, a blog post.