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Publishing yourself online - a blogger's quest for perfection

 
 
Char Aina
19:35 / 22.11.06
what do y'all feel is the best online publishing tool?

wordpress?
blogger?
moveable type?
xanga?
sometning else?

what makes the one you like so good?
are there horses for courses, or do you think it is all personal preference?


personally i use blogger, and have done for years now.
i use it because i was invited to a group blog a while back that used it, and i chose to expand the account to include several other blogs.

my reason for using it still is inertia, clearly.
i like the way it gives you a user friendly interface, and i like that it is infinitely customisable and easily so.

i like it as i currently use it, but i'm begining to wonder if there might be something else that suits other needs better. i wonder, and i ponder, and i ask....
is movable type something that i could customise so that it looked like my own site? is it worth paying for the premium version of xanga? does wordpress have the potential to look less like wordpress than it does on almost every wordpress-built site i have seen? what are the admin controls available? do they all support multi-blogs as well as each other? are they all user friendly? do any of them have unethical backing?

so many questions without answers!
why am i asking myself?
i should ask you!

tell me all about the publishing software you love and hate, and why.
 
 
Disco is My Class War
10:46 / 23.11.06
Word Press is excellent and so much better than Blogger, it's unbelievable. You can get a free blog on wordpress.com or blogsome.com -- I use the latter, and it's pretty good. You can upload your own images, it's pretty straight forward, and there are heaps of themes to choose from. It's reliable.

The awesome thing about Wordpress (and blogsome) is the enormous number of plug-ins available. People are really generous with Word Press hacks and they're mostly pretty easy to install. I'm also running Word Press on a site with its own domain name for a group blog. We've installed plug-ins for everything from killing comment spam, to a javascript contact form, to RSS feeds in sidebars. There's just a lot more you can do with not much coding skill. (It may be that Blogger also has heaps of hacks and plug-ins available, it's a while since I used it. But somehow I doubt it.) Blogsome also has a large community of theme and plug-in writers, and people are very generous with giving you bits of code to make things work better.
 
  
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