Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

You could try to compare a flashlight and light bulb when you need light in a place that doesn't have light fixtures, and the flashlight wins hands down.

That's exactly my point. One of them is designed to be used on Blogger.com and the other gives you the ability to DL and host it yourself. Like the flashlight and the lightbulb they both provide the same results but are designed to be used differently.

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

Again, I'm really more interested in the applications to both. You're saying they're different and WordPress is harder to use because it asks you the description of an image, and gives you the opportunity to show it at half size if it's a really big one.

You brought up the user interface and I responded with specifics.

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

I guess that answers my question. You use Blogger if you want ultra simplified so you don't have to learn the concepts involved...

What concepts do you need to learn about blogging that you couldn't know or learn about on Blogger?

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

..and you use WordPress if you like seeing how things work, or having themes. So thanks for helping me understand that.

I'd like seeing how things work. Can you explain to me how WordPress shows how things work? And the themes rational isn't even really applicable because on Blogger you can use whatever template you want and you don't have to pay to edit yours like on WordPress.com nor do you need to know any code other than basic HTML and CSS.

Many of the themes that you think make it a better blogging platform have been ported to Blogger and can be used on Blogger and you can take many website templates and port them into blogger in minutes.

smashing-template.blogspot.com/

geckoandfly.com/blogger-templates-beta/

www.bloggertemplates.org

And there are hundreds more available here are some examples:

findtemplates.blogspot.com/

blogandweb.com/category/plantillas-blogger/

customtemplates.blogspot.com/search/label/blogger%20xml%20template

www.bloggerbuster.com/search/label/Blogger%20Templates

Don't get me wrong I have nothing against WP or WP hosting I just don't see the point in comparing WP and Blogger since they aren't really the same thing. And their differences are even greater when you're comparing Blogger to hosting your own WP install like Learning wants to do.

I think it's fair to make the comparison between Blogger and WordPress.com, where they host your blog, but I agree comparing Blogger to hosting the WordPress application on your own server doesn't completely make sense.

You can compare the pros and cons of each option such as Blogger is free and if you host WordPress on your own server you have more access to things. You can't really compare everything though, feature for feature, because they aren't meant to be exactly the same thing.

Some comparisons might be reasonable to make, but others not so reasonable.

I've used them both, I'd prefer blogger on the hosting because it's faster (especially if you have multiple blogs) with setting it up. I read an article in some magazine before about Blogger being most preferred over other blogging hosts 'cause it's easier to use, but WP is what I prefer for hosting it with my web host.

I started with a blog on blogger, and learned a bunch about what I wanted things to look like, and then discovered that I was spending more time writing html than I was writing posts.. Not what I wanted to do... So, google for blogging software turns up this open source thingy called WordPress... We looked at the free hosted stuff and realized that if we bought our own domain, and hosted it, we could do the whole thing really cheap, and would have total control over look, feel, monetization, etc. We liked that thought, and so we started the political blog with its own domain, www.loliticz.com and used a hosted domain package at lunarpages. We've changed the look of the blog a couple of times, inserted a bunch of things that we like better, and have been running the software for about 6 months or so. Got great SEO plugins, hidden link plugins for affiliate programs, etc.
So, apples to apples, Blogger worked and still does, WordPress works and still does. free vs paid, total control vs partial control. You have to decide what the use is, and how you will be promoting your site.

my $.02... :-)

Blogger is great for setting up niche blogs.

Wordpress is the way to go for me It is good, powerful and easy admin!

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

I started out using Blogger, so I can speak from experience and say ignorance is one reason. That's usually an ugly word, but if you go back to what it means, I didn't know about WordPress at the time I started a BlogSpot blog. Textbook definition case of ignorance. Then a good friend gave me some hosting space and a WP installation, even helped me import all my posts and comments, so I could try WP out. And there's just no going back.

But I know a lot of people are more with it than I am. I've been a computer programmer forever, but only playing with this web stuff a few years now. So maybe people who know about WordPress and choose Blogger instead can tell me why? Cause I see nothing but trouble.

I think its just about the users personal preference. Wordpress is by far better though.

That's b'coz I intensely dislike their "no ad" campaign

What's wrong 'bout ads and monetization??

In Wordpress you can't organize your archive by days the same way you can on Blogger (at least not without doing some PHP editing).

I went on the WordPress forum and there are lots of other people with this problem. I simply want my blog archive to be organized by day/month/year, not month/year.

Check out my Blogger Blog. Look at my "Video Archive" to the right. The number next to each link is the number of videos stored for that day. Seems pretty simple right? Well you can't do it in WordPress. Not even a **** plugin for it!

Kyle what you want to do is not only possible in WordPress, but it's also easy.

Look in your themes folder (wp-content/themes/your-theme). Open the theme your using and look for the file sidebar.php. If your sidebar is already showing the monthly archives there should be a line of code that looks like this:

<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>

Change it to:

<?php wp_get_archives('type=daily&show_post_count=true') ; ?>

and your posts will be displayed the way you show in your diagram. You might need to adjust your css a little to get things to display exactly as you want.

You don't need to know php in order to make changes to WordPress. The lines of code above are WordPress template tags. They exist so you don't need to understand the php.

Here's a page from the WordPress Codex on Template Tags and here's a page specifically on the wp_get_archives() tag.

Not everything needs to be turned into a plugin and not everything is going to be done for you, but if you take a few minutes to read through the codex, which are the help files you'll find there's a lot you can do relatively simply. You can't do everything so easily, but many things you can.

Because blogger is firstly owned by google...
then blogger has more easy to use and free version of blogger has lot modification can be used specially the adding of widget and adsense.
blogger has the free to add extra scripts with the use of widget.
and basically my favorite part of blogger is html view where i can freely design my own blog...

I prefer Blogger, it is free, user friendly and easy to customize

Blogger is good for people that are new to blogging and don't have any programming experience. You can have a blog up and running in the matter of minutes. It is frustrating that they do not offer 3 column templates. With a little experience you can edit Blogger's templates in to a 3 column blog.

Imo Wordpress is far superior to Blogger and I use it on all my blogs. One major drawing point is that I just prefer the Wordpress admin interface far more than Blogger.

I reckon Blogspot is sublime! The way it's advanced now with all the hacks, templates, and tips available, means you can create a blog that looks and operates like a website you'd pay ££££ to run. No adds, no pop-ups, customise to your hearts content....
Gone are the blogs of old (this is me and my family and we're going to post pages and pages of our daily lives that will be of no interest to anyone but ourselves etc tec). We now have useful, interesting, and great looking blogs, and no one does it better that blogspot in my opinion.

i started wit bloggers and have 2 blog in blogspot.....was curious abt wordpress as so many were saying so many things abt it and trashing blogspot....went on to register my 3 blog on it...registration was breeze but when it come to customising ur blog i felt where have i come.
its so complicated and plus i also come to know u cant add ur ads codes here...
i mean wat is this man....plus for just changing template in wordpress i had to keep checking various other options and man its very complicated....

using blogspot was **** easy....it has the google touch in it.
simple and straight forward u dont need to pull ur hairs in order to post something.

now planning a third blog wit blogspot and wil sum wit it soon..

I actually started using blogger because I was too lazy to write a comment system for my website.
Later, I got into the blog thing and was just too lazy to switch platforms.
Maybe this summer, I'll spend some time on the sailboat with a cooler of beer and a laptop and get Apache Roller integrated into the site.

Needs to be done anyway, no sense spreading traffic over two domains. Gotta pay that VPS host

all my traffic that comes re-directed from blogger is quality stuff.

When they come from blogger, they check out an average of 8 pages on my website. This far exceeds the avg pageviews of my other sources. Granted I'm only getting about 10 hits a day from blogger, but still.

I used Blogger before the Google merger and it was pretty basic. I began using Livejournal and became obsessed. LJ has soooooooo many customization options, great "community" features and is very easy to change templates and such in. I don't think I'll ever leave it.