I was even telling a friend about it last night. She was contemplating going with Blogger. Ha! I said. Forget Blogger. Everything you want to do you can do it with more flexibility and distinction in WordPress. Blogger is nice and easy and doesn’t give you too many options, so there’s not an overwhelming amount of information… Basically, it’s perfect for what it does. Families who want to keep their distant relatives and friends updated on how cute their kids are, and hobbies and other interests… I speak from experience. I have both kinds of blogs. Started out on WordPress and thought I’d get a Blogger one for fun. The Blogger one has only served to frustrate me. Things that I can do easily (well, easily now that I’ve figured out how to do them) on WordPress are very tricky in Blogger. Even moving the page settings around in the sidebar in Blogger has proved challenging for me. I click and drag, but it doesn’t always go where I want it to, and then I’m left with something I wanted in the sidebar up in the header, or in the footer. I don’t know why…
And WordPress has these incredible widgets. I download and use for a while to make sure I like it, and then donate. Because money is important. Sad, but true. (Although the person who developed my theme is no longer supporting it. Not sure how I feel about that.) Among my favorite widgets are the WP to Twitter, which (as expected) tweets whenever I’ve made a new post. So I feel extra productive–I’ve written a post and updated my Twitter account. My new favorite is Shashin, which uses Picasa to get all your photos right where you want them to be. And here I was uploading them one at a time to my media library… Foolish girl.
And my absolute favorite? The favicon. I never even knew that’s what they were called. Where have I been? I always wanted one, and there are so many resources out there… I can make my own at favicon.cc or download one at any number of sites, or generate one with from an image or photo at Favicon from Pics. I just used a small image from my background and had it converted at Dynamic Drive. They had the best graphics for what I wanted. But since I’ve found the photo option, I may just do that instead. So many decisions… See what I mean? Perhaps too many decisions with WordPress… But still. I would never recommend Blogger instead.