Are you not using Blogger for your website? Why?

By Jason Nungesser July 31, 2013

Are you not using Blogger for your website? Why?

Originally shared by David Kutcher

It's been a while since I shared this post (and flamed the Blogger vs #Wordpress war), but seemed to be the right time to re-share ;)

Don't write off #Blogger because the cool kids tell you that you need to use Wordpress; it's simply not true. Blogger has a lot of advantages too.

Comments

Claudia Heidelberger said…

"Blogger has a lot of advantages over Wordpress." I read over these advantages - still waiting for the "a lot" part because everything listed is a Wordpress feature too.

July 31, 2013 at 2:23 PM

Kevin Williams said…

I've never found a single Blogger feature that I thought was implemented well, and I've never seen an attractive Blogger site. Feature checklists don't mean much to me when what's there is done poorly.

July 31, 2013 at 2:57 PM

Alexander S. Kunz said…

I recently switched all my blogs/sites over to Wordpress. What a difference! Sorry, Blogger may have had it's cool, but that was a LONG time ago. When did Blogger itself receive any significant update? The comments feature was stripped in favour of Google+ comments. Hooray.

As a blogging tool, Blogger's days are not lettered, but numbered. There's a plethora of sites out there that rely on it so Google probably won't axe it like Reader or Latitude, but nevertheless, from my POV "it's dead, Jim."

July 31, 2013 at 4:14 PM

Alexander S. Kunz said…

Oh, and: "Reason 6: managed security" - someone tell the author about wordpress.COM hosted sites, please.

July 31, 2013 at 4:16 PM

Alexander S. Kunz said…

Gord Birch who's fighting? "No offence" and this tone? Well, sorry if I gave a realistic evaluation of the situation and it offended you. I've been blogging with Blogger for years (longer than I've been using WP, which I only started last year) and went through countless updates and customisations (which are rather limited without HTML/CSS knowledge, btw.). http://blog.alex-kunz.com is still online as a reference (check the archives, goes back to 2007), I think I can say that I have formed a somewhat educated opinion...

July 31, 2013 at 4:30 PM

Alexander S. Kunz said…

And what a surprise, the folks behind that post happen to sell Blogger customizations.

July 31, 2013 at 4:35 PM

Jannik Lindquist said…

A major reason for me to use Blogger is that the cool kids tell me not to

August 1, 2013 at 3:15 AM