Thinking of Moving from Blogger

I see that Roy of IrishTaxi.net has moved from blogspot over to a wordpress blog. This seems to be a transition that most serious bloggers have to make in the end.

Blogspot is great for starting off. It has nice features for a free service such as the ability to point your own dot com address to it. Apart from that it is easy to use, provided you don't try to do too much messing around with the design side of things. But WordPress does have many advantages over it.

One is the selection of plug-ins that give greater usability to Wordpress. It's also much easier to back up a Wordpress blog. There is a wider and better selection of Wordpress themes also and as well as that I find that Wordpress themes are easy to customize. I find this myself. I may have only basic html skills but I'm able to do some editing of Wordpress themes with limited competency. Blogger themes are much more difficult to edit.

Once you move away from blogger you also need to find a good web hosting service. At the end of the day you'll probably have to pay for that.

I'm still window shopping at this stage. I'm in the early days of thinking about it but it does seem to be the best way to go in the end.