I have been blogging for some time, and most of the time, I used WordPress, like most of you, guys. While I always think that Wordpress is a great platform, I rediscovered recently Blogger (not the free hosted service, but the CMS you can host your own domains). I found that there has been lots of new features over the years, and that it might actually be an option to allow some of our projects. In this post, I will highlight these features.
You get an easy to use GUI (graphical user Interface) to customize the layout of the theme. You can customize the width of the Site Layout, background color, background image, the size of the font, font color, font type, number of boxes, location of placement sidebar (left, right), footer, etc. If you know the code to hack, you can customize your site even more.
Blogger offers to visitors to detailed statistics - at the time, daily, weekly, etc. in the dashboard. They show also country wise, wise OS, browser sage split public up visiting your blog. You can register your blog with Google Analytics blogger to get detailed, reports, statistics if you wish.
When you click on a Blogger user profile, you can see the list of Blogs followed by blogger. A blogger user can also see the list of Blogs (and post) they follow, from within the dashboard. Therefore, there is no need to go to Google Reader to read your favorite blogs. You can even display all your faithful with a Gadget to connect friend in your sidebar. This makes it easier for everyone to read other (possibly related) blogs and connect with other bloggers. Blogging, is all about connections!
WordPress calls these Widgets. In Blogger Gadgets 1161 (the last time that I checked) are available to show off the coast in your sidebar and even in the footer. Some innovative Gadgets include display Image, slideshow, list of events planned, games, and quote daily, daily images, Aquarium with fish, etc.
There is a sidebar Google translate Gadget that allows your blog visitors translate your blog, without leaving your blog.
You can not monetize your personal blog now. But you can do so after 1 or 2 years, as I have done. AdSense and Amazon affiliate network are fully integrated with Blogger and once you are accepted in each program, easy to monetize your site from Blogger.
Possible so that you can list blogs follow you in your sidebar. In fact, there is a sidebar Gadget that links to the last post published by all the blogs you follow and allows your readers to visit other blogs, if they like all job titles. Of course, others may come to your site like this too (many other blogs).
Blogger and WordPress.com allow users to upgrade to a domain custom (your own URL - yourname.com, instead yourname.blogspot.com). Of course, this must be done at the additional cost - about $10 per year. But for this money, blogger gives you a free Google Apps account. Among other things, you can use this account to create up to 10 addresses with your own domain like name1@yourdomain.com, name2@yourdomain.com, etc.
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