I have only used WordPress as a blog platform (I’m assuming that’s the right word – blogging terms are still frustratingly new to me!). But many of my blogging friends use Blogger. I’m sure there are other FREE blog formats out there, but those are the two I see used the most. I’m interested in Typepad, but it’s only a free trial and I’m still not sure I want to be dishing out any cash just to post my thoughts online – yet.
I’m curious to know people’s opinions about the particular blog format you use.
Mainly, things like:
- Do you consider it easy or challenging to edit your text? (Is it easy to format things like numbered lists, bullets, different sizes of text, etc.)
- When you add a picture or graphic and it doesn’t look the way you want it to (size, placement, the way the text fits around the pic, etc.) do you get frustrated or is all of that an easy, simple fix?
- Is it easy to understand the “behind the scenes” stuff about your blog?
You can email me your thoughts or put it in a comment. I’m just frustrated with WordPress and I consider myself pretty efficient with word processing in general. To me, WordPress (the free side of it anyways) doesn’t seem to be very accommodating in regards to formatting a post. I don’t know “code”, so maybe that’s my problem. Just curious if Blogger might be an easier format for me to understand.
Thanks!
In the Land of Ridd 
I’m pretty happy with blogger. It is easy to post, size and align photos. also you can schedule posts as well which I LOVE. It is also pretty easy to adjust your template however you wish and also there are a lot of free downloadable templates out there which are easy to import. (having said that the blog templates I tend to gravitate towards always seem to be wordpress ones!)
Also sizes of text there are about 4 options and also colours (easy to do) there are about 8 different basic fonts you can use.
with the pictures you can place them right, left or center (the center one is with no text around it just below and above text).
hope this is helpful.
Yeah, I just decided to create a test blog on Blogger & see how I like it. There are a lot more things you do with templates on Blogger, but WordPress has a lot more of their own templates to choose from as well. My biggest frustration is working with photos & the text. I might do the trial with Typepad as well, but it’s only 2 weeks & that’s a short time when I don’t have a bunch of time to sit & investigate things. Thx for your input!!
I’ve only used WordPress, so I can’t weigh in on this one, except to say that although I get confused & frustrated sometimes, I usually figure it out in the end. It’s annoying though, since I don’t have an infinite amount of time to play with it.
Vicki, just wanted to pop in again and say that I have recently discovered a programme that’s part of Windows (never knew I had it!) called Windows Live Writer – it is GREAT, with one click you can write your post and there are a LOT more style/design options as far as fonts etc are concerned. Worth checking to see if you have it. I think you can use it for other blogging platforms too – I just love that I don’t have to go into blogger etc – it is so much quicker and actually easier to navigate. if you have windows, you probably have it (don’t know if you are a mac user or pc though?)