[Hidden-tech] Blogger vs. Wordpress

Diane Clancy diane at dianeclancy.com
Mon Jun 11 10:02:13 EDT 2007 

Ron has a good point. **my last paragraph is most 
important point** But I also want to point out 
that there are tons of free widgets (add-ons) for 
WordPress.  There are lots of professional 
templates (called themes) with WordPress.  You 
can also tweak or change the CSS to your hearts 
content.  I know that many WordPress people have 
their blogs integrated with their sites - 
seamless - I don't know if they created them all 
in WordPress or something else.

You can have other pages with WordPress also - 
not just a blog.  You can have static pages too. 
WordPress has had this page concept for at least 
while - I don't know how long.  Again, you don't 
need design experience to make those pages - 
very, very easy.  I have not always gotten the 
help I needed from expensive paid software. 
WordPress people have been very generous in my 
experience with helping figure things out.

I am a subscriber to several TypePad blogs and I 
don't get the comments - just the posts.  With 
WordPress I can usually get the comments too. 
So, Ron, I wish I were getting the comments from 
my TypePad subscriptions.  They seem pretty 
equivalent to me.

What I particularly like about WordPress is that 
is **OPEN SOURCE**.  I love that hundreds if not 
thousands of people are working to make it better 
and to keep it free.  I love the whole open 
source (also known as free) software. It's a 
power to the people thing.  It is quite a strong 
movement!

Diane Clancy

At 6:51 AM -0400 6/11/07, Ron Miller wrote:
>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: <mailto:ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com>ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com
>blog: <http://byronmiller.typepad.com>http://byronmiller.typepad.com
>web: <http://www.ronsmiller.com>http://www.ronsmiller.com
>
>
>
>
>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:
>>
>>>    ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
>>>    ** You too can help the group
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>>>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
>>>
>>>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: <mailto:ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com>ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com
>>>
>>>blog: <http://byronmiller.typepad.com>http://byronmiller.typepad.com
>>>
>>>web: <http://www.ronsmiller.com>http://www.ronsmiller.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Jun 8, 2007, at 5:59 PM, DAVID F. FARKAS wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
>>>>
>>>>** You too can help the group
>>>>
>>>>** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>>>>
>>>>** If you did, we all thank you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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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