Friday, February 5, 2010

i'm back

I was over at WordPress for a while, but I've moved back to Blogger, and here's why:

WordPress doesn't allow you to customize your blaugh with their free service; you have to pay for it. Which I wouldn't mind so greatly if the customization there was as easy as it is here. I know only enough about CSS to be dangerous. I don't want to have to spend forty-seven hours making my blaugh look the way I want it to look, and then have to learn another fucking programming language just to manage the damned thing.

WordPress has a shitload of bells and whistles. Too many. Stuff I just don't want or need. All I need is a simple place to write stuff down where my vast sea of fans can read it. When I want to add something to my blaugh, I don't want to have to download, reprogram, learn how to write code, etc. I just want to be able to go to the 'customize' page and stick it on there. Because I'm blaughing, not programming. I admire WordPress's open-source roots, but that alone isn't worth the headaches, for me.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Minerva. I came here from CrimeSpace as requested to help you get some hits on your blog. WordPress is the only system I've ever used, and I'm glad I do. I like all those bells and whistles (or some of them, anyway - I've yet to learn all of them), and I hope you're not scaring others away - it's really not that hard! I hope others will visit me and see for yourselves.
    Julie Lomoe's Musings Mysterioso
    http://julielomoe.wordpress.com
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  2. Hi Julie, thanks for visiting! Most people I know who use WordPress love it also. I suppose I'm just easily annoyed.
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