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Blogger Or WordPress For Your Weblog?
By Stephen Grisham Sr.
that you blog with them. This is false.
You have the rights to your content, but Google keeps the
rights for their intellectual property. Their terms of service
(TOS) explains this in detail.
If your content does not remain within
their terms of service, then Google has the right to close
down or limit your account. Both allow you to host your own
blog on another server. While you may have more liberty
concerning your content, you must still adhere to the
guidelines or Terms of Service set forth by your hosting
company (unless, of course, you own your server).
Installation simplicity: Blogger tends to
be simpler to configure. If your website hosting service
doesn't offer Fantastico, the installation of WordPress may be
baffling for those unfamiliar with the server control
mechanisms and FTP.
Google is the winner when it comes to
customization. It's easier to edit template layouts, styles,
and colors with Blogger. With WordPress, in order to make
changes to a template that does not quite suit you as is, you
will have to learn PHP and HTML.
Quite a few templates are included with
each platform, and a vast number of templates have been
developed by third-parties -- a number that continues to grow
by leaps and bounds.
Other widely-used blog software types
include Xanga, Drupal (major learning curve), Joomla, and much
more.
You can get blog hosting for no cost at
sites like WordPress.com, Blogger, MySpace, TypePad, and so
on.
The bottom line is that it really depends
on your technical know-how and how much control you want to
have over your site. Select WordPress if you can find a
suitable "canned" template, or if you know HTML and/ or PHP or
are willing to try to learn PHP. If your goal is to instantly
write on your blog, and you don't have a lot of money, then
select Google.
Stephen Grisham, Sr. is a copy writer for
InfoServe Media, LLC. If You are looking for web designers,
Houston is the place to go. If you already have a website,
InfoServe Media also offers expert website maintenance.
Courtesy by
www.infosecrets.mobi
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