I'm a big fan of wordpress, meself. It's surprisingly powerful - I've just used it to design a site rather than a blog, and if you get the template editing right it's really rather easy.

Not tried it yet. I like Blogger enough not to have any reason to change. I do know that a lot of Wordpress users are a bit pissed off at the moment over having Snap activated on their accounts without permission, rather than simply being told about Snap and given the option of activating it.

Seconded. I've never had any desire to move off Blogger. In fact, like in plenty of other departments it has to be said, techie snobs turn me off all around.

You only have to look at some of the really inventive deviations from the standard blogger templates to realise how versitile it is - thanks to CSS of course.

My recent re-jigg was made an awful lot simpler by the kick ass CSS editor within Visual Studio. It's the best I've ever seen however, truth be told, it would probably overkill just tweaking one's blog template!

I must get round to redesigning this site. Trouble is, doing my own site doesn't pay as well as doing other people's.

>>Trouble is, doing my own site doesn't pay as well as doing other people's.

But it can't hurt from a self-promotion POV. If you've got nothing better to be doing.

There's wordpress the software and wordpress.com (or .org, I never can remember which; one is the offical software site with forums, etc., and the other is the free blogging platform). I use wordpress on my personal blog, MT on one group blog, and blogger on the other.

The login is the worst thing about blogger. For no apparent reason, it won't let you login, when you were logged in fifteen minutes before. That, and the fact that it's a pain in the 4ss to hack (php-wise).

MT is godawful. I hate everything about it, not least the fact that it will not accept trackbacks from wordpress (expression engine is the same way).

I love wordpress -- the software. The free site kind of sucks, particularly since you're so restricted.

Thank God someone else thinks blogger is ok.I get tired of other bloggers saying 'you should try Wordpress' I have tried it and don't like it.I really hate MSN space , Yahoo, Live Journal and My Space blogs. I haven't seen too many Vox blogs so I haven't decided on them.

Also pretty happy with Blogger. Although I should redesign my blog a bit, maybe.

I get tired of other bloggers saying 'you should try Wordpress'

That's the internet for you. There's only one right way of doing things, apparently.

But it can't hurt from a self-promotion POV

I'd amplify that: it's essential, IMO. There's a growing number of people who, rather than advertise that they want work done or contact an agency, go round internetland to see what's interesting.

> The login is the worst thing about blogger. For no apparent reason, it won't let you login, when you were logged in fifteen minutes before.

Blogger lets me stay logged in all day. It must just hate you.


> I'd amplify that: it's essential, IMO.

Right, then. The redesign commences.

Actually, it started months ago, in my head. Need to write some actual, you know, code.