My dear friend from WP community posts on his blog:

As of this writing, January 2004, I have been hanging out in the blogosphere for about four months. I had heard lots about blogging, and of course had visited a number of them out of casual interest. Eventually, I decided that it was time for me to take the plunge, so I embarked on a search for a blogging tool.

My first experience was at Blogger.com. At that time, Blogger had just been bought out by Google, and the application, while still being supported to an extent, was in limbo in terms of its future. I’m certain that the Google/Blogger team will come up with a completely new tool set, but I decided to try out Blogger anyway. I didn’t want to cough up any money, being so new to the blogging game, so I steered away from Blog*Spot.

Setting up with Blogger was amazingly easy. You do have to have your own domain for Blogger, but I already was set up that way. After signing up for an account, I was soon looking at the blog GUI. I did have a couple of brain farts during the set up, but once I got past my own gaffs, I was ready to start “Wow-ing” the world with my words of wisdom and humour.

Blogger made it easy to post and edit content. Their online help and other documentation were good, and the Blogger community is well established. You will find a lot of help and suggestions and a big pile of templates to use for your site. The template design was the one area that I had a bit of difficulty with, being unfamiliar with template tags and the like.

Overall, Blogger was a positive experience for me, and gave me the confidence to look around for other applications that had more functionality. As I was working on Blogger, I decided to install Greymatter, which powers a number of great sites. Greymatter is a bit complex to install, especially for newbies, but if you take your time, read the install documentation thoroughly, you can be up and running quickly. I had a basic site up in about an hour. Greymatter also has a well-developed community that supports bloggers at all levels. The biggest issue I had was the template design; it was overwhelming and complex. I had quite a bit of trouble with the archives as well, and it was quite frustrating.

I kept on with Blogger while dabbling a bit in Greymatter. One day I was googling for other blogging engines, and I came upon WordPress quite by accident. Once I checked it out, and saw that it was an evolution of the b2 blog tool kit, I figured that it was worth a try. I was literally shocked at the installation – it was so quick, and the problem that I did have was caused because I didn’t take the proper time to read the installation instructions.

The one thing that set me at ease with WordPress was the tone of the feedback I got during the install process. The dialog was very informal, and nothing like you would normally expect from any application. It was as though you had a buddy standing there with you slapping you on the back as you succeeded with each step in the process.

I felt as though I had hit a home run with WordPress. It has a vibrant community, and I have since become involved in helping directly with the documentation process. The developers celebrated the New Year by releasing version 1.0, which has been a success. Yep, there have been some bugs, but between the developers themselves and those users who have the talent, the list of problems shrinks each day. WordPress also now offers nightly builds, for those who like to be on the cutting edge of the program’s functions and capabilities.

Overall, I’d say that all my blogging experience has been very positive. Blogger got me started, Greymatter gave me confidence that I could install a more complex tool, and WordPress proved to be easy to install and easy to use. It is the best of both worlds.

That’s why I WordPress.

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