I ended up deciding to use WordPress as a content management system and combine our website and blog into one pretty unit. Hopefully the new site will launch by late February.
It seems like this solution is going to work well for us, and it got me to thinking about Mix Tapes & Scribbles (I consider this sort of learning/experimenting a major perk of my job). I've been waiting for a Blogger iPhone app, but I think I've come to terms with the fact that it's never going to exist. WordPress not only has an app for convenient, manage-and-moderate-anywhere control, it would let me return to self-hosting as opposed to redirecting my domain to Blogger.
Disadvantages include having to maintain my own platform again (I did this before with Movable Type) and being tempted to get overambitious with customizations. Also, Google rules the data mining and indexing world, so having them host the blog does very well for search engine results.
In the end, switching to WordPress could give me a much more attractive, easier to manage home for Mix Tapes & Scribbles, but just like the Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux argument, there are no clear answers.
So I turn to you, Dear Readers, and ask: have you had any experience with Blogger, WordPress, or even switched between the two? Have you used the WordPress app on your iPhone/iPod/iPad? What do you have to share with me?
Blogger always kinda sucked, but its gotten worse recently with spam. Wordpress is much better for both blogging and website, IMO. GRIA uses Wordpress for our website and it works well. I'm usually a huge fan of anything Google, but Blogger is a glaring exception to that rule.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I see the GRIA site has drop-down menus, too -- another customization that's slightly beyond Blogger at this point.
ReplyDeleteFYI for non-Baltimoreans, here's the GRIA website: http://www.griaonline.org/