[Hidden-tech] Blogger vs. Wordpress

[Ron Miller]

When I started blogging in 2003, there were basically two options;  
Typepad and Blogger. I started using Blogger (before Google bought  
them), but I didn't like the Blogger look and feel, so I switched to  
Typepad. It has/had more professional looking templates and a level  
of control I wasn't getting from Blogger. I get daily stats for  
instance, which I didn't get at the time from Blogger.

If I were starting today, I would strongly consider WordPress, but I  
think for $5.00 a month, you get a lot from Typepad including paid,  
professional help. WordPress provides a community of help, but you  
don't know if someone will respond to your query and you don't know  
if the answer you get is right. I've always gotten prompt,  
professional responses from Typepad

Typepad also provides a gallery of free widgets, add-ons that are  
dead simple to add to your page. They also have a variety of  
professional looking templates and they give you complete control  
over your blog from configuration and monetization all in a graphical  
environment. If you are a web designer, you can design your own CSS  
and they recently added a page concept that makes it easy to create a  
web site from your blog (with separate pages on different topics)  
without web page design experience.

Wordpress is great, but the last time I looked at it, I strongly  
disliked that  it required users to subscribe to the blog and  
comments separately.

If you want free, I would probably go with Wordpress, but you get a  
lot for your money for $5 a month from Typepad.

Ron


Ron Miller
Freelance Technology Writing Since 1988
Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine

email: ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com
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On Jun 10, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Diane Clancy wrote:

> But TypePad is paid ... so why pay when you are atarting and can  
> get for free?
>
> Diane
>
> At 11:36 AM -0400 6/10/07, Ron Miller wrote:
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>> Not to muddy the waters further for you, but I wouldn't count out  
>> Typepad, which is what I use for my blog.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>> Ron Miller
>> Freelance Technology Writing Since 1988
>> Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine
>>
>> email: ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com
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>> On Jun 8, 2007, at 5:59 PM, DAVID F. FARKAS wrote:
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>>> ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
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>>> Hi tech wizards...
>>>
>>> Time for me to set up a few blogs to my business. One may be the  
>>> basis of most of the content on one new site.
>>>
>>> The two ways I know about are Blogger and Wordpress. Blogger  
>>> seems to be pretty transparent and easy to set up. Wordpress, I  
>>> assume, has a learning curve and it needs to be setup on my  
>>> host's server.
>>>
>>> I'd love some input from experienced web wizards and bloggers on  
>>> pros, cons, best for a particular purpose, etc.
>>>
>>> Thanx so much.
>>> David
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