Choosing a Blogging Platform

This blog was developed on Blogger.com. I have another blog that I have also started on Wordpress.com, and it’s been interesting to see the comparisons between the two. Blogger is so much easier to use, and I really like the fact that I can access the HTML, which makes customizing the program so much easier (which is why I have three columns on this page instead of two). You can’t play around with Wordpress.com (the hosted version) like that, and I miss that flexibility. Blogger is also a little more user-friendly and intuitive. However, I feel like Wordpress does a better job of directing people to my blog—that blog gets more hits from Wordpress.com than this blog gets from Blogger.com. I wish there was a way to combine the benefits of both without the drawbacks. But just knowing something like that is interesting, given that I knew so much less about blogging a few months ago than I do now. I think part of the reason that I love my job is that I get paid to learn new things.