Time for Change!
For a long time, I was proud of the fact that I was using Blogger as a blogging platform. I thought it was challenging and fun to invent ways to hack and get around many of the challenges associated with hosting my own Blogger blog and using the non-xml old style version. I associated it with driving a vintage car. There was something cool about not moving to the latest and greatest, but instead sticking with retro for retro's sake. Blogger is the ratty old Chevy that, with some love can be made into something that will turn heads and function pretty well, but not without a lot of work.
Additionally, I was able to convince myself that WordPress or another CMS was too robust for what I needed and had doubts about integrating the rest of my site into a CMS.
That's all changed. Shortly (how dare I commit to a specific date), I will be making the move to WordPress. There is too much support, too many features (for both you ans I) and too many good things going for it to not make the move. To boot, everyone else is using it. True, it's terrible to be a follower, but there is strength in numbers, and strength in knowledge. Nine of ten design firms I speak with prefer WordPress. While you need to know XHTML and CSS to do web work...its seeming like knowing WordPress doesn't hurt either.
Blogger, so long. WordPress, here I come.
*Sorry for using "I" ten times above. This blog isn't just for me. It's for others as well. "I" promise to not let that become a habit. :)
Labels: Blogging, Web Development