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[wguttrid]

Hello was wondering what is the better option in starting a blog. Been looking into both wordpress.com and blogger.com to start a blog.

Any thoughts on which one is the better of the two related to ease of use and options both for a begginer and down the road?

[copywriter]

Hi,

I'm moving this to the appropriate forum. Branding > Blogs. I'm sure someone will be able to give you an opinion on these two.

Thanks,
Karon

[torka]

Uhm, actually, I'd do neither.

I'd register my own domain, get a real hosting account, go to www.wordpress.org, download the latest version of the software and install it myself on my own domain (or use the control panel "one click install" of the WordPress software if my hosting company offered it).

That way, I'd have total control over the look / feel, features and content of the blog without worrying about having my content deleted or finding myself suddenly locked out of my account for having violated some blog hosting company's terms of service (or for no reason at all -- read the TOS of both WordPress.com and Blogger.com and you'll see they both reserve the right to shut down your account at any time they feel like it).

Not to mention owning the domain the blog lives on means I have the option to do other things -- expand beyond simply a blog, for instance, without having to start all over again from scratch -- when the market and technology move on to the "next big thing".

My

--Torka

[desmarkt]

I am agree with torka.

I would buy a domain and hosting. Then all your job will be for your own site, not for wordpress or blogspot subdomain.
It isn't expensive, more or less for 40€/year (or less) your will be able to enjoy your own blog.

If your think that you are not prepared to install yourself wordpress (it's really easy, like torka told you) in your hosting, there are hostings with "fantastico", fantastico would install wordpress or others cms easyly.

[Nueromancer]

Of the 2 wordpress is much better the only good thing about blogger is that you can but analytics and ad sesnse on blogger

if you just want to experiment id say wordpress.com is the one to play with but as torka sugests hosting your own is easy i relay must convert mine over to a propper hosted one when i get the time

[nethy]

Is it possible to export/import or something similar when tranfering from hosted @ wordpress/blogger to 'properly hosted' in order to take your history with you?

[Randy]

I would assume so Nethy. Even if one cannot get to the database via phpMyAdmin or something similar you could still write a script to dump each table with its strcture and data intact. I just don't know if a wordpress hosted blog allows you to upload any files or not. I've never used their service.

[nethy]

You would be uploading to a paid host so that shouldn't be aproblem

Writing my own scripts todo the job would be.

[mini]

Good advice Torka. Thanks. I have never really thought like that before.