Lately I been pondering whether to move my blog to a paid site like Squarespace. I first heard about it on Leo Laporte live webcast and became interesting how you can create a website without knowing any coding. So I took up their 14 day trial and this is what I've come up with so far. http://booyabobby.squarespace.com/ It not bad but I think it can be better once I master their tools.
I just don't know whether to stay or not. It got the same features as Blogger but with better tools. Blogger new template design is seriously lacking. Can't use your own background image. Fucking lame. Squarespace I can customize the layout without the need of coding of any sort. If I do need to then I can insert the code easily. There a slight learning curve with CSS injection and what not. One thing I like about Blogger is I can pick a template and then copy and paste the code into Blogger. To make changes, I would need to dig thru the code to make adjustments and re-add all the widgets again. One thing Blogger has over Squarespace is the templates you can find on the interwebs. With Squarespace, you only get about 30 templates. You can make changes to those templates any way you like. If you had something to the website, It will not show up to the public until you tell it to. Now that cool.
I have thought about hosting my own site. One problem is that I don't know what host to go with. some say Go Daddy but I've been hearing bad things about them. I did some searching and came up with Just Host, Bluehost, or Inmotion. Then upload the wordpress software to the hosting. With that, when wordpress updates it software and you have to manually install the update again. Just seems like a pain to just blog. Squarespace updates it software so you don't need to. It is slightly on the expensive side. I was gonna go with the advance package for $20. I got a 10% code that will drop it to $18 for life of the account.
Not sure what to do here. That is why I'm asking you the readers. What should I do? Answer below please. If you guys n gals got any ideas, I love to read them.
I would not think it was worth the cost for the better tools for a blog. Maybe a site making some money.
ReplyDeleteI'd say you host your own site with wordpress if you REALLY want to move.After the initial leg-up,i'm guessing it will be a smooth ride-I'd consider wordpress if I were to host my own.If not,stay with blogger-it lets you customize,MUCH..that too free of cost.And blogger now has a new feature-your widgets don't get deleted when you add a new template =)
ReplyDeleteI like Blogger because it's easy. I bought my own url through Google but it's still a Blogger blog. Just my two cents.
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