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Blogspot or Wordpress?

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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby Andy » Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:18 pm

I think he's already convinced so no need to continue with the votes. Instead, try to accommodate his follow-up question.
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby nssasmaz » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:57 am

blog is free
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby Andy » Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:58 am

nssasmaz wrote:blog is free


Was that supposed to read "blogspot is free"? If so, your point is moot as both blogspot and wordpress are free.
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby icreativelabs » Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:20 pm

if you don't have your own hosting and domain, you can use blogspot. You can modified your blog like you want, and they have full support from google and adsense.

But if you have your own hosting and domain, just use wordpress cause it's really easy for modified and maintain, and you will find many interesting plugin and themes in outside. :thumbsup:
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby Andy » Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:01 pm

icreativelabs wrote:if you don't have your own hosting and domain, you can use blogspot.


You're making it sound like blogspot is the only one that offers hosting blogs, which is untrue. Wordpress also hosts blogs.

Hosted Wordpress: http://wordpress.com/
Wordpress for download: http://wordpress.org/
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby icreativelabs » Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:39 am

Andy wrote:
icreativelabs wrote:if you don't have your own hosting and domain, you can use blogspot.


You're making it sound like blogspot is the only one that offers hosting blogs, which is untrue. Wordpress also hosts blogs.

Hosted Wordpress: http://wordpress.com/
Wordpress for download: http://wordpress.org/


Upss I was wrong :twisted: but if you want to use free service and want to modified the script or adding something into your blog maybe you can choose blogspot.
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby Andy » Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:38 am

icreativelabs wrote:and want to modified the script


huh?

If that's supposed to mean that you can change the code base then no you cannot. Wordpress on the other hand has a plugin architecture which lets you do pretty much anything.

If that's supposed to mean that you can change the layout then you can do that with any blogging platform.
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby tranduyninh » Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:42 am

my vote is wordpress , thanks
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby ranadeep » Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:48 pm

Wordpress wins the battle everytime, I'd say too. Mainly because, if you want flexibility, you cannot get it in blogspot. However, I have observed for some time that more pages of blogspot blogs get indexed faster in search engines and probably because of the top navigation bar (which you don't really need to display in your blog) you tend to get a little traffic boost. This would be missing in WP blogs and you need to concentrate on the search engine and traffic part for quite some time and in right procedures to get similar results.

If it was me, only for blog/news/portfolio I'd start up with blogger, use it for probably 6-8 months, create a base and shift on to WP to add new features like webstore / e-shop. But if search engine or initial traffic is not so much an issue, it should be Wordpress all the way...
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby khanate » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:17 am

Thats an interesting point ranadeep. Blogspot sites DO seem to pop-up more frequently..

Alright, so what about WORDPRESS Vs. JOOMLA?
I've done a couple of commercial websites with Joomla and its pretty neat, but it can be a little "buggy" sometimes.

Anyone else used Joomla? What are your thoughts, comparing to WP?
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby sarahxbox2009 » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:22 am

Wordpress is more dynamic compared to blogspot. But as far as simplicity is concerned, I would recommend blogspot. It is user friendly and adding page element is not a problem in this aspect. :D
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby waheedakhtar » Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:54 am

wordpress is best
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby Andy » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:27 pm

waheedakhtar wrote:wordpress is best


We've already established that. Now, please.. Try to accommodate his follow-up question instead.
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby ricky » Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:29 pm

Definately Wordpress... there is such a big community and you can find a plugin to do practically anything you want.
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Re: Blogspot or Wordpress?

Postby Andy » Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:38 pm

:facepalm:

there's just no reaching out to these people, is there?
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