2009 16/09

Poll: What Is Your Experience With Blogging Platforms?

By Erica
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Filed in: Blogging, Wordpress

As a web developer, I find it interesting to see where people choose to blog, and how many of them end up switching from their original blogging platform.

I’m a WordPress.org (Self Hosted) girl myself, but I started out with Blogspot (Blogger.) While I never hosted my own site on a WordPress.com account, I have clients who use it.

Every blogging platform has it’s pros and cons, ups and downs. But, each serves a purpose and I find that most people are quite dedicated to whichever platform they happen to be using.

What about you? What is your experience with blogging platforms? Have you made changes since you started blogging?

In The Beginning…

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Still Happy, or Time for a Change?

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Where Are You Now?

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I’d love to hear your comments as well!

EricaMueller

Huzzer, Thanks for the comment. I'm in complete agreement... if you're serious about blogging, get started right with Wordpress.org and save yourself the hassle of switching later on. For personal blogs, Blogger or Wordpress.com are sufficient. I've recently switched my personal blog to Posterous so I can update from anywhere, and I LOVE it! However, I wouldn't recommend it for anything but quick updates...
Huzzer Magazine

For me, everybody should jump into WordPress.org if there are serious in creating blog with huge followers and be the influencer in the internet.

Howevr, for those who is still searching for the directions in blogging, blogspot can be a good testing site as the cost of set it up is free and pretty flexible for a basic blog
Renae

I started blogging at http://homeschooljournal.net which is a Multi-user WordPress platform like WordPress.com. It is actually a lot less restrictive than WordPress.com, but I wanted to learn more about hosting, so I switched. Otherwise, I'd probably still be actively participating there.

I have a small Blogger blog, too, but I prefer WordPress.
EricaMueller

For people wanting to do it all themselves, I think Blogger makes sense. But, you're right... for us developers who want to play with things and really bring a site to its full potential, Blogger is just too basic.

Wordpress is so much more fun! :-)

Thanks for the insight, Nancy!
Nancy@ifevolutionworks.com

I'm a web designer also. I found blogger a little too basic for me. I've got myself as well as my blogging clients using wordpress as well.