BB who set up the Women Serving Women Veterans website and I met today because she had a number of questions about how to make things happen on the blog. We'd met at the Juneteenth Celebration when I video taped her and a couple of other folks with exhibits there. She also confirmed my earlier conclusions that Blogspot was a lot easier than Word Press as a platform for a blog, though you can probably do more with Word Press if you have better computing skills. Someone had told her to use Word Press. (I had suggested Blogspot.) She said she spent 2 1/2 days trying to set things up in Word Press, and had gotten a lot more done in 2 1/2 hours on Blogspot. Probably some of what she did for Word Press helped get her ready for Blogspot.
So one thing we did was go into the Word Press site she'd set up and put up a post to redirect visitors to the Blogspot site. That was the first time I'd actually been in a Word Press blog and it certainly has a cleaner look than Blogspot and with what I've done on Blogspot, I could figure things out fairly easily in Word Press. At least for the simple things we did.
Anyway, so, can anyone figure out, from the musk oxen picture, where we met?
The way home we had an interesting layer of clouds over Anchorage.
WP.com vs Blogger--
ReplyDeleteI disagree, of course, having experimented with Blogger, LiveJournal, and various WordPress websites and then settled on WordPress.com (as well as the educator setup based on WordPress, http://edublogs.com). This was because the WordPress is far easier to set up and control discussions and links/trackbacks, if that is what is wanted (no need for the hoops that Blogger requires). Blogger also has a lot of splogs (bogus sites) and scrapers (stolen content).
WordPress still needs some better designing behind the scenes to be even more accessible for the hard of seeing. It does, however, have some nice software not needing an author's touch to get noticed on the Internet. Plus, there are some really cool users :mrgreen: to help out.
But your idea of setting up both platforms and then [strike]playing around [strike] experimenting is really the only way to judge.
I recommend anyone new to blogging read Lorelle VanFossen's blog and her book for newbies which isn't just for WordPress but all bloggers.
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/
[OK, attempt number 4 at this]
Thanks for the comments. When I started this, about two years ago, as I poked around all the stuff I read said you needed some coding ability to make things look like you want them to.
ReplyDeleteIt looked a lot more 'familiar' yesterday. I don't know if it's just that there are basic functionalities that are similar in both, or whether WordPress just got much easier over that time.
In any case, there's no doubt that WordPress sites look better than blogger sites.
Again, thanks.
Middleway cafe!
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