Bored with the lack of variation Blogger provides, I have been wanting to switch over to WordPress for a little over a month now. The Edelman Digital Bootcamp on Saturday confirmed it, or so I thought.
But, wait! Six Apart recently created a TypePad service that it says has "the largest set of blog themes on any hosted blogging platform."
Take a look at the myriad of design options. I like Ragged Watercolor!
Which blogging service do you recommend? I'd love your input. Take the poll & let me know.
Monday, March 3, 2008
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I'm really liking Wordpress for my class blog as opposed to Blogger, which I used when I traveled to France a couple of summers ago. Wordpress has more options, but has taken me longer to figure out. And there's no simple Twitter update widget :(
Don't know anything about Typepad, but I think you'd like Wordpress!
Where it's more work, I've always been a roll your own kinda guy. The problem with the services is that you are relying on them to stay up, for backups, etc. They make it harder for you to change hosts when the time comes.
My blog is on a shared hosting account and I am running Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) as the blogging platform (the software used for the blog).
Feel free to shoot me an email (sean@seanreiser.com) if you have any questions.
I've become a real WordPress girl ... I like it & all the plug-ins.
But man, those are some awesome wild templates for TypePad! For TypePad I like red stripes & squares blue ....
Whatever you choose, can't wait to see it :)
Hmmm... all good points. While I do love the designs in TypePad, I'm leaning back toward WordPress. I'm going to play around with it over spring break.
Amy -- Thanks for pointing that out about Twitter. I love having the updates right on my blog.
The one tangible difference MT has with WP is how the posts are displayed. When you look at a WP post, the post content is pulled from the database, and finally sent to your web browser. A large number of connections and content in the database can make this seem slow to your users. MT by contrast stores the posts in both the database and text files. Visitors only get the file version. Back in MT 2.63 an author had to remember to check a box to update the file. Very annoying.
MT = efficient for visitors; inefficient for authors.
WP = inefficient for authors; efficient for visitors.
If you expect to have thousands of visitors / minute (called the Slashdot Effect or Digg Effect) look at pages, then MT might be the better approach. There are also WP cache plug-ins which operates similarly.
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