Comments on: What Blog Platform Do You Use Most?

By: Tezindenver

Tezindenver — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:01:53 +0000

Would be nice if I could select more than one option in your poll, Darren. I use blogger and typepad. Not thrilled with either because I get frustrated with the limitations. From all the comments here, I guess I’ll have to try the self-hosted Wordpress.

By: Todd Wallinger

Todd Wallinger — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:18:35 +0000

Lara, I understand what you’re saying and yes, my template is still recognizable as Blogger-esque by those who, like you, have done 12 years of homework. But to the 99.99% of my potential readers who haven’t, they won’t know.

Besides, I’m not trying to hide my Blogger-ness, as if it’s something to be ashamed of. It isn’t. I’m just trying to have it not be so in-your-face.

And I don’t get that “B” favicon in my browser.

By: Lara Kulpa

Lara Kulpa — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:04:41 +0000

Todd, not to burst your bubble, but I’ve done 12 years of “homework” and I’m here to tell you that your blog is so very, very clearly a blogger blog. While I’ve seen blogger blogs that true, don’t look that way at first glance, you’ve got a few telltale signs like that double bordered box around your text based header for starters… VERY Blogger-esque.

That and the token “B” favicon that appears in my browser? Yep. Yer on Blogger.

That being said – if you think for one second that even getting rid of those two things will “hide your Blogger-ness” from advertisers or the search engines, you really should probably crack open another book and start doing MORE homework.

By: Todd Wallinger

Todd Wallinger — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:57:24 +0000

I just started on Blogger and so far it meets all my needs and is incredibly easy to manage. And if you do a little homework, you can format it any way you want. You wouldn’t even know my blog was on Blogger.

Check it out here: http://www.backstagebabble.com.

By: Melayu Boleh

Melayu Boleh — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:32:34 +0000

I use wordpress.org for most of my site network.
Really enjoy using wordpress as it has open support from many sources.

By: gaus surahman

gaus surahman — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:04:39 +0000

I love doing things with my theme: theming, adding more functionalities, moving elements around, etc. Wordpress is I believe the mighty software for blogging. It’s all well-equipped fot it. It is it. Period. And yes, I started using Wordpress with great love for some time. Then along the way I have to satisfy my specific needs. I switched to Drupal and I am just fulfilled. I am not afraid of being the minority around the Wordpress majority here, as I always found love, no matter what the software is :) For the poll sake, +1 for Drupal.

By: jobsyndicates

jobsyndicates — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:28:34 +0000

Joomla has much better features then others, more than blogging. It is a framework. vote for joomla.

By: sky

sky — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:17:44 +0000

I saw this first hand, but really I stumbled into it unintentionally. I put up a bumbling video of myself thanking everyone for allowing me to have over 6400+ visits in my first full month blogging. The video wasn’t great quality or presentation, but people realized it was very genuine and I received several comments and e-mails. Again, I wasn’t out to really benefit like this, but I realized a side benefit from my regular reader’s really connecting with the video. Thanks again for sharing this; it helped me so much in having a great start!

By: العاب شمس الدين

العاب شمس الدين — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:50:58 +0000

In fact i am using more than one blog platform as i have several blogs running at the moment . I am using blogger , Joomla an wordpress . I’d rather use Wordpress (self-host ) if i could afford it . Anyway i am planning to migrate my blog soon . Looking ahead it wouldn’t be wise to have your blog platform changed after all the hard work you’ve put into it .

By: Lee Ka Hoong

Lee Ka Hoong — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:47:43 +0000

I used Wordpress self-hosted since the first time I started my blog, until today..never changed. It’s the best blog platform for me so far, familiar user, strongly recommended!

Regards,
Lee

By: Alison Kerr, Earthonaut

Alison Kerr, Earthonaut — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:09:47 +0000

I answered Blogger, but that answer will be changing soon – I’m in the process of moving to Wordpress.org and self-hosting.

I just need the time to sit down and think through the moving process – make sure I know what I’m doing! I’d been planning to move anyway, but the 31DBB forum folks convinced me to move sooner rather than later.

I love what I can do with Wordpress already after just playing with it, but I’m pretty glad that I “cut my teeth” on Blogger first because otherwise I’d probably never have started writing.

By: The Word Seeker

The Word Seeker — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:14:52 +0000

I voted for other. I use window’s live space. The reason is because I think it is clean and inviting. I used both wordpress and blogger, I stop using them because it did not become inviting. My blog is personal and window’s live is personal. So I think both combine is great.

By: Sherman Haywood Cox II

Sherman Haywood Cox II — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:08:39 +0000

About a couple years ago…I switched 4 blogs over from wordpress to drupal. Since then I have switched one of my blogs back to wordpress (after seeing those really nice magazine themes)…However…I use so drupal views so much that I can’t switch my main blog back…

so I guess I am bout half and half…at any rate, any new blog will be wordpress…

By: Yudhistira

Yudhistira — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:18:46 +0000

Is anyone using Joomla …??

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:55:36 +0000

I prefer using blogger

By: Ginkgo100

Ginkgo100 — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:45:28 +0000

I AM COME TO EAT CROW. Earlier in this discussion I said, “Creating a custom layout is, for me at least, a little easier with the blogger tags than PHP.” THIS WAS BEFORE I GOT IN VERY DEEP. I now say: To Hell With Blogger! Or rather, to hell with creating a highly customized Blogger layout. Most of what I said about Blogger is still true, but I am finding it just too ridiculously hard to develop a custom layout that looks the way I want it to.

Want to know what I mean? Check out my test blog (mypuzzletest.blogspot.com) and look at the right sidebar. I can’t get any of the blogrolls to look right because the Blogger widgets have their own CSS which I can’t access or change. The closest I’ve come are the last three, but even those look nothing like what I have in mind. I could just hard-code it all instead of using Blogger widgets, but then what’s the point of using Blogger?

Back to the drawing board — on another platform.

By: Naomi Trower

Naomi Trower — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:09:13 +0000

Wow! Self-hosted wordpress is winning by a landslide! That’s good to know. I started out with a free wordpress blog just to see if I would like it since I love to write. I desired to be an author in the past. (Still may be in the cards one day) I ended up on the 1st page of google. Then I wanted more functionality so I switched over to self hosted and have loved it ever since. I have had wordpress designers reach out to me to help me with designs due to their love of my content. Now I have a 2 blogs..a fitness one and a business one. Wordpress self hosted all the way! I LOVE IT! :)

By: Alex Brooks

Alex Brooks — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:55:44 +0000

I use self hosted wordpress, it’s so easy to customize and I like to be in control of my blog and it’s hosting etc.

By: Azam

Azam — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:04:37 +0000

I thought blogspot will have more user.
I’ve been using Wordpress (Self Hosted) as I see that it have more themes and plugin compared to any other platform.
It will be much easier to find help if you have any problem with it when there are a lot of people using it.
Anyway, very interesting survey.

By: Julien

Julien — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:24:54 +0000

I recently tried drupal for a community-website I’d like to launch.
I had worked for a few years on Wordpress for my main blog.
After a few days of hard labor under Drupal… I completely ditched the CMS and went back to Wordpress and try to use it as a CMS.

I’m just to used to it… ! But I do love it :)
So it’s Wordpress all the way, blog… or not!