I have been playing around with the Circulation blog in Blogger and WordPress. I am debating which would be a better format... I plan to upgrade, get a domain and upload the blog so I can really customize it, so what you see here is not what Circulation will look like in the long-term. However, I am curious to see if anyone has comments or recommendations about using Blogger and/or WordPress for their blogs.
I've been doing research and it seems that both have positive attributes... What to do? What to choose?
Do a good deed today and share your knowledge with a young and eager blogger... If you have suggestions and/or recommendations, please share!
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I had this question when I started my blog, having more WordPress experience than Blogger. I created a FriendFeed discussion about the topic and a former professor of mine had useful things to say about both. Here's the link:
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/wordpress-or-blogger
My vote goes to WordPress. I find myself learning more about blogging because it isn't as user friendly as Blogger, which isn't a bad thing. I also bought my own domain and the WordPress format transferred nicely.
Having used Blogger for 4 years, and just starting out on WordPress (self-hosted), I'm learning a lot about the two platforms.
Blogger is a great place to start out. But, the more and more I read, Blogger is seen as unprofessional in many people's eyes. It is possible to redirect your Blogger feed to a domain, but details of how to accomplish this are very difficult to understand and accomplish.
WordPress, on the the other hand, is open source and fairly progressive. Files are highly editable and customizable. There are two versions: the wordpress.com hosted site or the wordpress.org self-hosted site. Both WordPress flavors utilize PHP and SQL.
Blogger is one page. It's slow on the uptake for many new services such as widgets. WordPress sites can contain many pages, and quick on the widget uptake due to the open-source. Both have an easy to learn interface for submitting blog posts. However, for coding novices it's easier to set up a Blogger site than a WordPress site.
Since I'm looking further in the future, I made the switch to hosting my own blog using the WordPress software. As Scott commented, I'm learning a lot about blogging throughout the change-over process. But in the end, I hope to change over the blog to more information study-type posts rather than personal drivel. I figure that I can do the design legwork now, and work on the content throughout the next few months when time is a bit more limited. The important thing to remember is that Content is King. It doesn't matter where you host your blog if the content sucks because you still will attract very few readers.
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