Hi Teli and friends!
well, last night, up to 3 am, i have been 'playing' with Wordpress... When so many people recommend it, it should be go, no?
And I was indeed very pleased. It looks good, it feels good. AT LAST a large edit window (youhouououououou!).
And indeed loads of standard features that I like and can be implemented trouble free... I imported my two blogger-blogs trouble free, and away I went (have a problem importing updates from blogger to wordpress but guess support will have that sorted out...
some questions/remarks on what you said:
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The main concern with Blogger, at least for me, is when it boils down to content ownership/search engine rankings. I'd rather have my own domain name get the search engine rankings and not have my content subject to the whims of another.
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well i think the ranking goes for your blog and not to blogspot.com...
And you can have your own domain name in blogger (maybe you refer to the old blogger)..
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When you manage your own blog on your own site, you have the ability to back up your data and if you're abiding by the rules of your webhost, you're less likely to have your blog randomly deleted because someone reported it as a splog.
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undoubtedly you have more flexibility and data security then.. However, it is not like they will delete your blog on the first one that randomly hit the 'object' button. And I have to tell you that having a default/non-erasable button 'Flag Blog' is not very meaningful.. how many of those hits are needed before you are blocked..? HOWEVER.. Blogger states that it will have to take a few, and then they decide what action (I guess human intervention). At worse, the blog can be put on 'private' or 'removed from the search engines'. The blogger help file does not say anything about 'being deleted'...
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Also, there are some features that Blogger simply does not have such as pages, categories (I hear it does have "labels" now), internal tagging, no support for extension through plugins. Those are a few of things I can think of off the top of my head.
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Yep, there is plenty of stuff wordpress has, and again, the 'feel' is much better. it is much much much MUCH more userfriendly. Oh, yes, blogger has categories now.. and you can do the plugins, but you have to copy/paste the data (more difficult, but more flexibility)
Things i miss with Wordpress however, is the flexibility to fully customize my template (I can only do parts of it, with no html in it etc..), and to add html in the text on the side bars (to put my own stuff in there like a clustrmap, a polll,..), and to run ads. (which pay for whatever expenses i have to run the blog e.g. flickr account, etc..)
Anyways, there is no black and white. one thing is for sure, thanks to you and those bragging about wordpress
, I went there and gave it a try, and will probably stick to wordpress too! even if it was for a 4th blogsite!
(so you have to ask the friendly folks there for your 5$, as you referred me!!)
I would definitively recommend it to a newcomer too, rated above blogger..
thanks again,
Peter
(before a blogger newbie, now a blogger and wordpress newbie!
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