[blogger and wordpress] head to head
Don’t know about you but I quite like my WordPress design – the heading is very Nourishing Obscurity. Here is a head to head comparison with Blogger, as I see it.
Posts
Font and variance: Blogger allows choice of font and colour and justify function, WordPress doesn’t.
Indented paragraphs: WordPress has the clear edge [on this template].
Inserting links: Both are good.
Consistency of text [spaces, gaps and so on]: Both are woeful.
Templates
Blogger allows choice and has far more back up by irregulars e.g. gecko and fly. WordPress allows only a limited number of set choices.
Blogger allows infinite widgets, WordPress have only two or three you can choose from what you’d want to use.
Blogger allows Bloglinking.com [which opens all links in a new window]. WordPress does not and so every site you visit changes your main window each time. On a slow computer, this is hell.
There’s no usable three column WordPress. Blogger has several from irregular sources.
Navigation
Blogger is far better, when it’s working. WordPress forces you into threads you don’t wish to enter and when you try to circumvent that through Favourites, it makes you sign in all the time.
Summary
My particular Blogger template allows infinite choice and for this I love it. WordPress is a set two column for beginners and has only strictly limited choices – their choices, not mine and not ones I’d care to use. I like to arrange my site my way but with WordPress, it has to be their way.
Reliability wise, WordPress has the edge, of course. Blogger is woeful – truly the worst host ever in the internet.
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I’d have to give Blogger the big edge. Of course I still don’t know why YOU can’t post on it
Ruthie and I both can.
Maybe because you’re in the States – I see some Brits are having some troubles but I see others posting. It’s a great worry because if everyone’s posting, then the problem is on my computer.
It isn’t just my main site – all sites with blogger of mine are down. Everything else works – comments, template changes and so on – just posting won’t go ahead.
Hi im on blogger. Since i changed to the new version i havent had any problems. Some of your computers security settings can stop blogger working properly, go to blogger help and there is all sorts of info about it. Blogger on the whole rocks, very easy to use and versatile.
Hang on a second. Are you sure you’ve explored all of WordPress? There certainly are three header templates (six so far), and should you want to shell out (although you might well ask why you’d want to when blogger gives it free) you can mess with the CSS to your hearts content.
As for fonts, well at least the restrictions mean WordPress bloggers can’t usecomic sans!