What's the best blogging program/software/website?
By michan
@michan (212)
Philippines
February 25, 2007 6:52am CST
A couple of months ago, I moved my blog to WordPress. I've been using Blogger for three years and suddenly I just thought that I hated it already with all its downtimes and everything. At least with wordpress, I can have control over everything.
What for you is the best blog program/software? Wordpress? Blogger? LiveJournal? MySpace? What? :D
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9 responses
@ccatherine (416)
• Portugal
25 Feb 07
I prefer Wordpress, is a wonderful tool and since I own a domain it's great to manage everything. With wordpress we've more control and it's easier to modify things. That doesn't happen with blogger, I used to blog with it but since I changed to wordpress my life was simplified.
@miscellaneous (47)
• Philippines
5 Mar 07
Wordpress is my choice. I have started toying around with Wordpress a couple of weeks back and have learned to love the software. Today, I have finished porting a fourth website into Wordpress (this sites were previously static sites using plain HTML).
As mentioned in other posts, it is best to use Wordpress if you have your own domain name and you host your site (meaning not hosted at Wordpress.org). For ease of installation, I use Fantastico that comes with most Unix/Linux web hosting plans.
The beauty of Wordpress lies on its power (very structured PHP + MySQL) and its very big community support (themes, plugins).
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@miscellaneous (47)
• Philippines
10 Mar 07
Just a simple note to show my gratitute to you for marking my response as best. By the way, I got the chance to have a look at your blog site (miii) and find it to be informative, cute and simply put: it rocks! Thanks.
@michan (212)
• Philippines
11 Apr 07
my webhost also offers fantastico which has automatic installation of wordpress, and that was how i got into it in the first place. I love how it's easy and has a lot of available themes and plugins.
about my blog, i try to write down my school notes there because i check on it more than i read my school readings. it also helps the people who know me know what I'm talking about when i spout random stuff.
@pitstop (13805)
• Australia
27 Feb 07
I still prefer blogger because I'm more comfortable with it. I've tried wordpress, but didnt get used to it. This is just a personal choice and I am aware that blogger has several drawbacks. I've never had too much downtime with blogger though.
Maybe I'll try wordpress sometime.
@ezybusiness (38)
• Australia
17 Apr 07
I think Wordpress is the best platform because it allows you the most freedom when it comes to design, plugins etc. It also has the largest collection of free themes and plugins and aa hue development community.
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@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
25 Feb 07
Well I'm still with Blogger. It's too much hassle to switch. It was hassle just upgrading to New Blogger.
As for downtimes, I've only noticed one, but I have only been blogging for about 3 months.
@rocky1928 (148)
• India
26 Feb 07
I feel that blogger is d best place to blog coz it provides u variety of templates n a very easy way to create a blog.....Thers no difficulty 4 a beginner...
