I started my blog at Google's Blogspot (or Blogger) as I always use Google for search, I have a Google g-mail account and I'm a fan of YouTube which is owned by Google (Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion).
However, now that I've been on here a while and I've learnt a lot more about blogs and e-mail ... I'm actually quite disappointed with the results.
Blogger (or Blogspot ... which the hell is it?!) is veeeery easy to use and looks very polished but it has a very low amount of support.
Take statistics for example. Anyone who writes a blog wants to know if people are reading it. I did this in Google by adding a third-party page view counter, which you can see in the top right there. However, this counts a view each time I come to the site to post. It also doesn't show any other info like which posts are more popular and when people visited.
Because of this, I started to shop around. I had used Wordpress as an author as the Hot Pyjama Productions blog I used to contribute to is hosted on Wordpress. As it happens, Wordpress has a wealth of built-in tools for measuring statistics, a lot more customisable themes and layouts and a lot of extra nifty features like an option to respond to a comment via e-mail so you don't even have to head to the site to reply to viewer's comments.
So, with the click on a button, I imported by Blogspot/Blogger blog into Wordpress and I'm away!
You will find all my new posts on www.nzraw.co.nz and you can also find a range of New Zealand blogs on my other website.
Bye bye blogger.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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