it all started with a comment cassy left on my blog.
being naturally as curious as I am, and having wondered several times over the sudden growth of wordpress user and why everyone suddenly switched to wordpress.. my curiosity started eating at me.. & before I even knew it, I'm on wordpress's website (yes, i do have a dormant wordpress account, if you are wondering. i did say i'm curious right), & this time, I went all the way to try out wordpress. importing my blog posts over from blogger to wordpress.. struggling with all the not that intuitive and rather professional functions. getting really fascinated and happy seeing my own photos on the customizable header of my new wordpress blog. really hating the lack of designs and customization allowed for other parts of the blog ESPECIALLY, my twitter badge & twitter stream!!! URGHH. if I ever hate wordpress, that is gonna be the biggest reason why. not that they don't have that function, but rather, i refuse to have to pay $14.95 (i believe it should be in usd) per year just to host a domain so that I can install plug-ins and therefore install my twitter plug-ins. URGH.
not to mention, it's tough to upload photos to your post. the function is totally not intuitive. bad Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Bad transfer and bad affordance (finally putting the knowledge gained from the more or less boring cnm lecture to use =D)
wordpress is definitely a good publishing platform no doubt, but not for amateurs! it would have served the functions of someone more professional, or even a startup company looking for a good and affordable website publishing platform.
yeah, but for now. it's not exactly my favourite idiot proof publishing platform.
oh yeah, for those who are interested, check out my wordpress site: https://peirongzz.wordpress.com
judge for yourself & do tel me about it so i can make up my mind.
2 comments:
Well, Wordpress.com is rather inflexible for the free user, although it still does offer quite a bit.
Without paying anything, you are stuck with their templates. It also doesn't allow you to insert arbitrary Flash content (specific content like Youtube videos are allowed though) or Javascript. Depending on how much you are into customizing your blog, this could be extremely annoying or just a little inconvenience.
On the other hand, Wordpress.com allows for multi-page blogs, and has a central interface for managing many aspects of the blog (like media, comments and users) conveniently. Yes, it might take some time to learn about the options and features available, but some are quite useful.
TL;DR version: Use Blogger if you want to customize your blog a lot. Use Wordpress.com if you want to take advantage of its management features.
You also mentioned about paying for a domain name to host your own Wordpress.org (note the difference) blog, which doesn't have all the drawbacks of a Wordpress.com blog and the added feature of plugins. Actually, there are many free hosting services that also provide a subdomain name that you can use, but you would need to learn about web server management.
great advice! i'm currently trying out wordpress to see if the other benefits of wordpress are more attractive than blogspot's flexible customization. blogspot after all does have its many benefits & is aesthetically more appealing. only time can tell. for now, its still wordpress vs blogspot! :)
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