Investigating
Hello readers who WILL comment. I am investigating the possiblity of either going with Beta Blogger (which I haven't dared to try yet) or wordpress. Wordpress Trial with potential to be used can be found HERE. I have imported my posts (so it can be done, comments included) and stuffed around with a few categories. Oh and is there any way to get around customising my template more than just the header image without having to pay? What say you?
posted by Bec @ 9/26/2006 04:13:00 pm 
10 Comments:
As Geoff explained over at the wordpress test, you need your own host to edit the template of wordpress effectively. And no, to keep that web address and have a custom template requires you to pay.
I'll be setting up a beta blogger test account a bit later tonight to see just how different it is. Otherwise, good luck!
Host your own Wordpress somewhere (or get someone to *nudge*Geoff*nudge) and you can customise it as much as you like. You may have to pay a little for hosting to do that.
That said, I'm looking in to getting some hosting set up for a bunch of people who have blogs, so if you're keen let me know and it should end up costing not very much at all.
You have to move Bec, its the way... The only problem was I couldn't post on your new site.
Well, if you have a domain, I can host you. I have free hosting, and plenty of free bandwidth/space.
Heck, you can even use my blogging software if you want. It comes with forums and everything :P (But is still a work in progress. Always has been. Probably always will be :P)
Free hosting is worth exactly you pay for it.
Excuse my cynicism :P
I clearly missed a word in my last post.
"Free hosting is worth exactly what you pay for it."
That's better.
The beta of blogger is somewhat.... different.
It uses it's own proprietry coding system for the template. Which makes it a lot harder to understand completely. I'm currently going to be getting jas to host me some Wordpress :P
I think everyone has to make the switch at some point! I have found wordpress to be better, although like you I was frustrated with not being able to customise it much. You really notice this with stats - because you can't edit the html and add the coding on wordpress.com. Some templates offer a little more customisation (eg on mine I can customise widgets etc). If you have the money to spare, go with hosting... I would like to myself but haven't been able to justify the expense to induldge my writing.
I'm already well on the way to converting.
I've registered a domain for my blog and the friendly administrator over at [jasHosting]™ has sorted it all out for me.
Come and join the club. Everyone gets their own domain, wordpress install takes less than two minutes.
Mmm... my blog's not important enough to me for me to be bothered moving anymore. I'll probably move to Beta though, when I get the option.
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