Finding the right blogging solution
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to find the right blogging solution. Everyone seems to love Blogger which is fine, but I kept thinking that there’s something better. The problem is that there’s nothing PERFECT.
Blogger’s great, but it’s major drawback is that there’s no way to back up your blog like you would an SQL database. The best you can do is have each of your published entries emailed to you. I’m not thrilled to death with that solution. Also, if you use Safari on the Mac, you can’t see the text formatting menu when using the “Compose” tab, so it makes editing harder unless you use Firefox. Nothing against Firefox, I use it on Windows, I just happen to prefer Safari on the Mac.
I used MovableType for a while, but it suffers from not easily being able to upload and scale images.
You can use Blogger with a personal server, but the problem with that is you have to pay to use that server. I might try piggy-backing my blog using Blogger with worldofwarcast.com since I’m already paying for that.
I tried WordPress. It’s very, very nice but it suffers from a clunky dashboard, and if you use their servers to host your blog, you have to pay them to be able to edit the CSS for your template. However, they do have a VAST array of templates available. Using images on it is very clunky though. I had serious issues with how it used images. Blogger gave me no trouble with images at all.
I thought I could use iWeb, but you have to use a Mac and you can’t use web tools to publish.
So the best I could do is use the free version of Blogger right now, simply because everyone else in my little group uses it, and you can each log into your Blogger account and be linked when you post comments. It’s not the best solution, but it’s the best I could find right now.
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