Posted on Thursday, July 05th, 2007 by pelf and filed in Blogging Challenges & Tips
Psst…

A few PayPerPost posties recently got together and started a new blog — Bloggers R Us — and boy, it reminds me sooo much of my favourite toy chain store, Toys R Us!! :D Go check it out, who knows, you might learn a thing or two about blog marketing, CSS, blogging tools, etc.

I’m using WordPress and I love every second of it. In fact, one of the reasons I’ve migrated from a Blogger blog to a WordPress.com blog was because I loved the categories functionality. And a few months down the road, I moved from a free WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted blog eventhough I knew next-to-nothing about hosting my own blog because I loved the flexibility in switching my blog themes :D

Some of the features I looked for when selecting a blogging platform are as follow:

  1. Provides blog themes for free or for a low fee.
  2. FREE customer support services.
  3. Ability to handle add-ons like extensions or plugins.
  4. Categories and tags management.
  5. Trackbacks and pings.
  6. Post preview and editing.
  7. Multiple authors/contributors.
  8. Comment control (on, off, moderated, comment spam protection).
  9. Blog backups.

Blogging TipsSo what blogging platform are you using, and what made you choose it? If you’re thinking of self-hosting your blog, what are the features that you will take into consideration before making a decision?

Excerpt taken from Lorelle vanFossen’s recently published book, Blogging Tips: What bloggers won’t tell you about blogging.

  1. Silly Pat says:

    Pelf! Stop reading my mind! :P

  2. Rob O. says:

    I’m a long-time Blogger user. I sometimes get a bit envious of all the gizmos, whizbangsm and plug-ins that WordPress bloggers have at their disposal, but I’m pretty happy with our (Classic) Blogger-based blog that’s hosted on my own domain & webspace.

    And I’m hopeful that I’ve tweaked & tuned enough on our 2Dolphins so that it doesn’t seem so much like just any other Blogger blog.

  3. pelf says:

    Pat: Aww… Can’t help it! :D

    Rob: Your Dolphins site looks good! You did a great job :)