Blogger vs. WordPress?
WordPress wins.
Right. So, as with any fantastical theater production, much has to happen behind the scenes before any successfull measure of anything. My God, succesfull / sucessfull / successful is a difficult word to spell. (FYI, it is composite of a double ‘c’, double ‘s’ and lone ‘l’.)
Recently, Blogger sent a really lovely ‘fuck you’ to those who use FTP something or other to publish to their own site. I don’t know much of anything about anything, let alone the sociopath to which we politely refer as ‘technology’, but I do know that what Blogger did was really rather mean and bullying.
FTP publishing, in Mahanese is simple: I used to use the software provided by Blogger – there, I would write up my little entries, press a virtual button, and Blogger would then take this entry and ‘push / publish’ it on to my onefemalecanuck.com immediately. Easy. Until they decided to delete this ‘push / publish’ heaven sent, because only .5% of their users utilize it. ‘No Blogger Left Behind’ is not Blogger’s motto, it would seem.
Over the years, I have heard from every single one of my eight friends that WordPress is the way to go; that it is much more user friendly and intuitive. Also, they don’t tend to ‘fuck you’ any writer, no matter how teeny tiny their world may be.
And so, I have moved here, and am typing this within the interface that is provided by WordPress. Already, I like it more because it’s prettier.
I owe this transition to T, who very patiently answered all of my panicked (one ‘c’ and an additional ‘k’) rambly questions and concerns. I am certain it helps our friendship a great deal that she has two very young daughters, and so the communications tricks she uses with them, she also uses with me. For those of you unfamiliar with T, or would like to contact her re her exceptional website creations, please note that you may find her here. (Thank you. Love you. Owe you.)
I think it also means your rss feed has changed? (something I only figured out when I saw posts showing up in Facebook but not GReader).
For those of us who take you in any dose you provide us…v. important.
Michelle! I remember you mentioning that you moved to WordPress as well because it was a much smoother ride? I am playing around inside of it at the moment and I LOVE it so far. It’s so much easier to navigate and figure out. Yay WordPress.
Ok. What in the what is an RSS Feed? SWA-HILI it is to me this thing.
xoxoxoxo
p.s. I understand why / when I can use Twitter. I am excited – it happened while I was in Vancouver. Will explain soon!! xox
Hey – no one’s avatar is showing….can either of you two see the avatars??
I think they show up if you have a wordpress.com account and post here via those credentials? I am not entirely sure. I do (!) have WP, but it is the standalone version, hence I am not as cool. RSS is a creature I know nothing of how it works, only that it does, and it is fickle.
Oh, you must know I am DYING to hear of the function you have found for Twitterworld. (!!)