People who blogs only for a personal diary, journal or travel blog etc. would choose any Blogging platform they would only think about the CMS when they are little experienced with the platform they are using, that's good. But for so called newbie tech bloggers, they just worry about their CMS, most of them don't even think about the content.
We are describing the usability of a CMS by various levels of blogger. We will also tell you the advantages of using Blogger other than using any CMS out in the industry.
Blogger - One of the oldest and best Blogging platform, trusted by Millions. Even we use Blogger as a content managing system (CMS), Blogger have a interesting history. It was first developed by a small team of Pyra Labs, after a great success period, Blogger came into eyes of Google and it's when Google acquired it and make it better than ever.
WordPress - Another blogging platform used by Millions, but not by everyone who start blogging recently, people won't just get into it to learn the basics of Blogging, from Labnol to ShoutmeLoud most of the popular blogs use this as their medium of Blogging, but i will state the dark side of it to you in the next section.
If you are new to Blogging then it's useless to go for WordPress, it does provide features similar to blogger but you have to pay for your hosting services, which is a nightmare to new Blogging Techies. Think what you just signed up at WordPress to start a new blog and you see that you have to host your files at a file hosting service to start up your blog and design it. It's next to impossible to add functionality to your WordPress blog without hosting your files and the next problem is that limited bandwidth you get from your hosting services and it's not too important because less established bloggers start blog to earn money and they just want to increase their expenses by using a hosting service.
We are describing the usability of a CMS by various levels of blogger. We will also tell you the advantages of using Blogger other than using any CMS out in the industry.
Blogger - One of the oldest and best Blogging platform, trusted by Millions. Even we use Blogger as a content managing system (CMS), Blogger have a interesting history. It was first developed by a small team of Pyra Labs, after a great success period, Blogger came into eyes of Google and it's when Google acquired it and make it better than ever.
WordPress - Another blogging platform used by Millions, but not by everyone who start blogging recently, people won't just get into it to learn the basics of Blogging, from Labnol to ShoutmeLoud most of the popular blogs use this as their medium of Blogging, but i will state the dark side of it to you in the next section.
Disadvantages of WordPress
What's good with Blogger
What's good in Blogger ? Everything !. Blogger is undoubtedly a great platform for new bloggers, the majority of cook blog, travel blog and personal blog is more than that of tech, where tech savvy person likes to use WordPress as they can save for the hosting service bills
bloggers who are new love to use Blogger, even Labnol was on Blogger at first but as it started earning good money it shifted on WordPress, you can still see labnol at the Blogspot address @ http://labnol.blogspot.com . 9Lesson the most famous blog for programming is also on Blogger, think why wouldn't Srinivas Tamada choosed WordPress ? Just to avoid complication and limited bandwidth.
The ultimate CDN of Google will never let your Blogger blog be down and you never need to worry about the bandwidths, all you have to work on is your Template design and Content, which is the most important element of a blog, Blogger gives you full accessibility to add or remove gadgets, features and functions from your Blog.
You can just calculate the majority of Blogger user by searching a term online and seeing what amount of result do you get is from Blogspot blogs compared to WordPress blogs, i rarely see any WordPress blogs when i search for something.
People are satisfied with what Blogger and Google provide us, from email to Blogger platform they are the best and we can't even imagine the internet without Google.
Okay, writing this article doesn't mean that we are forcing you to stay on or use Blogger or WordPress, we have just presented our thoughts for WordPress and Blogger, the article is neutral and doesn't reflect any disability of any of the mentioned service.
The ultimate CDN of Google will never let your Blogger blog be down and you never need to worry about the bandwidths, all you have to work on is your Template design and Content, which is the most important element of a blog, Blogger gives you full accessibility to add or remove gadgets, features and functions from your Blog.
You can just calculate the majority of Blogger user by searching a term online and seeing what amount of result do you get is from Blogspot blogs compared to WordPress blogs, i rarely see any WordPress blogs when i search for something.
People are satisfied with what Blogger and Google provide us, from email to Blogger platform they are the best and we can't even imagine the internet without Google.
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Deepak Kamat, is a blogger and web designer, usually writes about new Web Design techniques and fixes for Blogger. He is a student and loves writing, but mostly articles and CSS. You can visit him his blog http://stramaxon.blogspot.com
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