Friday, August 31, 2007

Why Blogger?

I would suggest Blogger over WordPress for anyone who doesn’t have their own web host and/or wants an easy and quick blog.

Blogger is good because:
  • Blogger works for anyone who doesn’t have a lot of programming, moving files, installs, bits and bolts of how things work experience.
  • You want an easy setup with the most features of a blog hosted by the blog provider and the lots of options for adding plugins and html code easily.
  • You want to have your own domain name, but want to use a blog hosted by the blog provider.
    • In other words, if you want to buy a domain name like say,www.blogmaadi.com but dont want to have your own web hosting service where you can add and maintain your own data and blogs, since redirecting is free in Blogger- this scores a point.
  • You want to have commercial usage on your blog.(Ad's)
  • Blogger has the most features, the most choices and the ability to add html code easily including use of javascript. That means when you find something you like you can add it to your blog posts very easily.
In short, Blogger is easy, attractive and is a flexible blogging platform.

The one thing that seems to keep a lot of people from recommending Blogger is that it does not allow you to back up your posts. Therefore, if anything happened to Blogger, you could lose your data. Also, you can’t move the data to another blog if you wanted to. And looking at the hacks to backup your data, there really isn’t a good way to do it.

Also, if you start with Blogger, you can later choose to go to WordPress.
However, you can’t go the other way because Blogger doesn’t have an import or export function.

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