Yes it is a good idea and plus you can even make some money out of it! You don’t need any knowledge of HTML or any other script but just a little logic. It will take some amount of your time but it will work. The idea behind all this is to make blogging much easier.
All you need is this software , WordPress MU 2.6 .
you really don’t need to put a lot of tine in it or lot of hardwork.
WordPress mu 2.6 will give you a look like how a professional blogging platform looks without any knowledge of css or Dhtml
It is the most easiest thing on earth needed to make a blogging platform with nearly all feature which are used in the wordpress.com blogs. Run as many as blogs you want for free!
After downloading the software now get a reliable web host or a free web host or just google ” free web hosts “
Upload the software the and extract it in a “sub directory”. After that select the sub directory and then set the file permissions to “755″ and then inside the wordpress mu 2.6 folder selcet the wp content folder and set the permissions to ” 755 “
After that is done now open any of the page like yourwebsite.com/yoursubdirectory/wp-signup.php
then you will see a page opening there asking you some details
But before please create a mysql database named wordpress and make a user of the database and assign him all the privledges.
Now when you open the page page you will see some details being asked so fill them all up with the correct information like your name , your mail , your database name which is “wordpress”
the user you created for the database and the password. There will be something below it on the page so let it it remain as it is (the “localhost” thing)
In the page type selection please select you will setup up page types like yourdomain.com/yoursubdirectory/userblog and not userblog.yourdomain.com
this is because if you dont have a paid host you wont be able to access the dns of your domain which is required for this and it is very complicated so leave it. ( I will tell you solution later)
After doing that you have a user created as admin and the password is generated for you.
That’s all ! You have your own blogging platform !
If you want some more themes for your users than upload them to the wp-conent folder in the sub directory of your domain where you setup the blogging platform and do the same if you want some plugins too!
Now if you want to earn the open the source files of your themes and add your ads code to the themes header, footer or wherever and that’s it. NOw whoever blogs on your platform will blog and have fun and you will earn money with the ad on his blog!
If you want to see an Example please go to blog.etiole.com
If you need any help please feel free to contact me and i will setup one for you!