Mashable Survey: Top Five Blogging Platforms
Mashable recently conducted a survey, asking their readers which blogging platform they preferred. The following are their results.
5. Livejournal
Below are the comments I left on the post:
The drawback with Blogger is the fact that one does not really “own” one’s blog. However, one can write about a variety of topics, including adult subject matter. It is easy to customize the templates to get your own “look.” Blogger is the easiest, in my opinion, for those whose HTML/design skills are none to novice.
My affiliate blog (http://www.wealthyhealthywise.info/blog) is a Word Press blog, and I like being able to choose to show a “post snippet” rather than the whole post, so readers can see more posts at once. I find it difficult to control the look of my Word Press blog, however. There will probably be many experienced Word Press users that will laugh at me for this, but it is my feeling on the matter.
It is probably a good thing that I have to be choosy about what I put in the sidebars because of the limited number of “slots” for displaying items. I did tend to overkill when I had my Blogger blog. This is a dead blog, but people can look at it if they like to see what I mean. (http://killmyjob.blogspot.com)
I really did not care for Livejournal or TypePad (which didn’t make the list, but in my opinion is very similar to Livejournal) when I tried them. I have never tried Posterous or Tumblr, the other two on the list, and thus cannot comment on their user-friendliness, which for me is the most important thing in a blog platform. I possess only very basic HTML and web design skills. Someday maybe, a class to improve these. Till then, I’ll stick to what’s easy!
I did not include this in my comment, but one thing I prefer with Wordpress as opposed to Blogger is the ability to direct the link to open in a new page. With Blogger, it always opens in the same page, which can be irritating. Here is a little trick for those of you new to web surfing. Mouse over or highlight the link you want to surf to, right click, and select “copy link location.” Then paste the link into a new browser tab or window and, voila! You keep open the page you were looking at, and open the new page as well.
By the way, I had actually been using the Internet for a number of years before I figured this out, so don’t feel bad if you find yourself saying “duh! Why didn’t I think of that before?” I know that’s what I said!
If you have any thoughts on your favorite blogging platform, feel free to share them with Mashable–or me!
To your success,
Jobkiller
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