Friday, February 8, 2008

Blog This!

As far as blogging programs go, they all kind of work on the same principle and mainly differ in the bells and whistles that they offer. I will say that doing an informal survey of the blogs I visit daily, most are Word Press, some are Blogger, and some are Type Pad. I had a LiveJournal account way back when, but I always saw that as more of a semi-closed community more than a public blog forum. None of the blogs I read use it.

WordPress seemed the most user-friendly to me for a number of reasons:
  • I am a fan of the Blog Roll and WordPress has a blog roll that is easy to set up and maintain.
  • More template options than Blogger.
  • Customizable CSS
  • Adding widgets is easy, they have a number of options that you can just drag and drop into your blog's layout. You can do the same thing in blogger, but you have to seek the widgets out. While I am wary of too many widgets, presenting a selection of them can help you make a judicious decision.
  • Video slideshow function seems easy to use although you will need to pay if you want to use more than a certain amount of bandwidth.

I'm probably the wrong person to ask about features though, because my favorite blogs are simple, widget free with basic short entries like this one.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

unless using the blog as a homepage, i'm not really into the widgets, as I don't visit the websites of the blogs i read, so all that work is lost on me!

Anonymous said...

I'm with you both. The widgets are cool for the owner of the blog, but as a visitor, I'm not going to pay attention to your bells and whistles. Give me pure content, maybe a video, but that's about it. Lorri, you're a girl after my own heart ... pure, simple, clean.