I have now been blogging mostly unsuccessfully for over a year!
During that time I've had a lot of fun playing with blogging options
and platforms. Currently I have around 97 or so posts, which isn't too
shabby considering my writing skillz. Sadly I lot of that number
involve video postings and far too much whining about my aforementioned
lack of writing skillz.
Blogging Platforms: WordPress
The Good:Wordpress was a good place to start blogging since
it my former web hosts took care of setting it up and it seemed to have
a lot of active support. Once I learned to turn off the buggy WSIWYG
editor I could blog easily. The admin was fully functional with
sections for links editing links and comments, and I feel intuitive.
One of the greatest assets of wordpress is the wide variety of
pluggins, I loved my pluggins, since they helped fill in missing
features. I particularly liked the plugins, wpPolls,
wp-Ajax-Edit-Comments, Akismet Spam filtering, Google analytics and All
in One SEO.
The Bad: The main problem with it was it's use of PHP and
mySQL for its code. I don't know much about PHP other than it's syntax
looks like the bastard child of C and Pearl, and as such isn't the most
fun to work in. This made extending Wordpress much more work than was
worth while. So when it came time to switch hosts I decided I'd rather
go the .Net rout. Another problem was even though I love the pluggins,
there was no standard place for plugin authors to place admin options,
so you'd have to search through the main menu to figure out where the
developer had decided to stick it.
Blogging Platforms: SubText
After perusing the available .Net blogging platforms, I settled on
subtext since it seemed easy to port my current content from Wordpress.
It more or less went smoothly and now I have a pretty nice skin created
from my old Wordpress theme with some features added form the Redbook
theme.
The Good
Subtext is written in .Net so its much easier for me to work with.
It was also very easy to set up by myself and I could import my old
blog via blogML. Creating my Skin was much more intuitive because I
could edit the UserControls for my specific skin along moving/editing
any tags I wish. For Wordpress I was mostly stuck with css and image
changes
The Bad: The admin has fewer features, and while subtext's
rich text editor is nicer, I'd still rather turn it off and just write
my posts in html. (although if the editor gave me syntax highlighting
life would be good) It would also be nice if Subtext had a save and
continue writing option since then I could save my work more
conveniently
Conclusion: I hope to continue bloggin in the new year, and
maybe I'll even get a few more comments. Soon my theme will be
perfected and life will be good.
Statistics
- Most popular post: My Kanon Review
- Number of Unique visits: 650
- Most Popular browser: Firefox
- Site Most Referred from: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
- Most common Keywords: Hyperbally followed by Anime Demotivators
- Total Number of Posts: 97