Thursday, July 27th, 2006...2:17 pm by Leroy Brown
Which blogging platform is best?
There are quite a few blogging platforms to choose from today. How do you as a new blogger know which one is best? Here I’ll cover what I consider to be the “big three” – Blogger, Wordpress, and Movable Type. There are pros and cons to each one, and I’ll try to cover the important ones here.
- Blogger -the easiest if you’re brand new. You don’t have to buy a domain, set up hosting, or know any funny PHP or CGl. Simply sign up and you’re blogging within 5 minutes. Sounds great! Then are some drawbacks to it though. You don’t have the level of control that you would have on your own domain, and there’s no built-in support for categories. Blogger could even shut your blog down without notice- and all your hard work would be lost.
- Movable Type-the top choice to control multiple blogs from one spot. The free version allows unlimited blogs under one login, so you can sure save some headaches if you run several blogs. The bad part? Movable Type is rather difficult to set up. You need a domain, hosting, and the knowledge of a CGl-bin. Rebuilds take forever on a large blog, and plugins are difficult to use. There is also a poor theme system in the current version, so changing the look and feel of your Movable Type blog is not intuitive.
- Wordpress – My current favorite, and probably the fastest growing platform. PHP based, Wordpress has no lengthy rebuilds -all your pages are generated on the fly. This does mean, however, that pages load a touch more slowly than a Movable Type page. The plugin system is simple, and the theme system is nothing short of brilliant.
As you can tells no one platform is perfect, and each has its flaws. which blogging platform do you use and why?
7 Comments
August 4th, 2006 at 5:20 am
[...] Decide on your blogging platform. Make this decision wisely – it’s quite difficult to switch an established blog to a new platform, and it can mess with your internal links something fierce. [...]
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
There is so many blog platforms but I find wordpress is the best except that its ease of use is not there. Blogger is too limited .. I personally like Moguling.com
October 6th, 2008 at 10:37 am
[...] there is many blog platform you can use, free or with fee but mostly free. blogger, wordpress and typepad is popular among blogger, so i suggest you to use any of this three. if you wanna be more customizable then wordpress and typepad is for you. but blogger is not bad though. so you need ot find what the best platform for you, if you looking just to blog but dont want to have own hosting or domain you can just use blogspot.com or wordpress.com, but if you wanna have own hosting i highly recommended wordpress, because it probably the best platform for self-hosting blog. read more about choosing platform, What follows is my attempt to flesh out some of the factors a new bloggers might like to consider in deciding on a blog platform. It is probably impacted by own experience of blogging over the last three years and the preferences I’ve accumulated in this time. I invite readers to add to this post in comments below with their own ideas and experiences so we can have a more balanced and useful collection of tips for readers considering such a choice – problogger.net Blogger, in my experience, has always been the best blog platform for the tech-challenged. However, their new version makes customizing templates and rearranging widgets easier than ever before. Their XML templates allow for dragging and dropping of widgets, which means you don’t have to know HTML (even a little bit) to make your blog look the way you want it – performancing There are quite a few blogging platforms to choose from today. How do you as a new blogger know which one is best? Here I’ll cover what I consider to be the “big three” – Blogger, Wordpress, and Movable Type. There are pros and cons to each one, and I’ll try to cover the important ones here – bloggingblog [...]
October 17th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
[...] Type, por otra parte, provee un excelente soporte, dado que es un servicio pago. LeRoy Brown de Blogging Blog también [...]
November 20th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
[...] Which blogging platform is best? at Blogging BlogThere are quite a few blogging platforms to choose from today. How do you as a new blogger know which [...]
January 31st, 2009 at 2:05 am
[...] d’altra parte, fornisce un eccellente supporto, visto che si tratta di un servizio a pagamento. LeRoy Brown di Blogging Blog fa anche notare che: “Movable Type è la scelta migliore per controllare vari blog in un solo [...]
June 20th, 2009 at 6:55 am
i tried all of them and i can say that each has its ups and downs..but overall, i like blogger.
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