I am not a fan of Wordpress but I would recommend it for its range of tools and blog management utilities. Wordpress wins with its suite of pre-installed templates, blog tracking tools, category function -- to name a few. I never had server problems with Wordpress before (I had two blogs with Wordpress). Reliable and good, I can say Wordpress is just that.
Blogger, on the other hand, is somewhat generally nominated as the inferior platform. I loved having Wordpress, but I'm loving it more being here on Blogger. I don't understand why templates seem to be an issue. I easily managed to customize my own template with Blogger. Everything around here seems so simple. True to its claim of being a "push-button" publisher, a few clicks indeed allowed me to set my blogs up in seconds. Another complaint about Blogger is also the perception that it is a platform for spams. I guess that's the price of being so simple and user-oriented. With functions and utilities that even K-12 students could easily figure out, Blogger opens itself up to abusive or non-serious use. Maybe it's just me. But I think Blogger just stands by Google's implied maxim of offering "freeware for ALL" -- the kind of orientation that makes Google engulf a lion's share of the Internet.
Wikipedia excerpts about Wordpress and Blogger are presented below:
WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg.
The latest release of WordPress is version 2.2, released on 16 May 2007. Distributed under the GNU General Public License, WordPress is free software.Features
- Generates standards-compliant XML, XHTML, and CSS
- Integrated link management
- Search engine-friendly permalink structure
- Extensible plugin support
- Nested categories and multiple categories for articles
- TrackBack and Pingback
- Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text
- Static Pages
- Multiple Authors
Blogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.Features
Blogs can either be hosted internally by Blogger (on the blogspot.com Internet domain), externally on a user's own domain, or on the user's own server (through FTP or SFTP).Redesign
As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account are located on Google servers. The service is now claimed to be more reliable, due to the quality of the servers.
Along with the migration to Google servers, several new features were introduced, including label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, reading permissions (to create private blogs) and new Web feed options. Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files.Integration
- The Google Toolbar has a feature called "BlogThis!" which allows toolbar users with Blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs.
- "Blogger for Word" is a free add-in for Microsoft Word. This add-in allows users to save a Microsoft Word Document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline. As of January 2007, Google says "Blogger for Word is not currently compatible with the new version of Blogger", and they state no decision has been made about supporting it with the new Blogger. ( http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42497&topic=8931)
- Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a simple way of generating revenue from running a blog.
- Blogger offers multiple author support, making it possible to establish group blogs.
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