Blogger vs. Wordpress

When I first learned that we were going to do a blog in this class, I was eager to learn how to do it, and I went to the Blogger website and watched all of the tutorials they had. So, when it came time to actually make our blogs, I had at least seen how Blogger worked and was marginally familiar with that site. I may have been biased because I had already watched the tutorials, but Blogger seemed very user friendly to me.

When I played around with Wordpress I found it very frustrating. Everything was different! And the way it worked didn't seem at all intuitive to me. I hadn't worked with Wordpress for five minutes before I made up my mind that I would definitely be using Blogger!

This is mostly an emotional decision as opposed to rational, but I'm a girl, so I am entitled! ;D  But let me try to back it up with some good hard evidence:

First of all, Blogger has these fabulous tutorials right on their dashboard (I love them!) and my blog is right there.

Wordpress, on the other hand, comes up looking like this:

All this stuff that seems irrelevant to me comes up, and to get to my blog I have to go to another tab. That doesn't seem like a huge deal, but it is just indicative of Wordpress' non-user friendliness.

With Blogger, everything I want to do to customize my blog has a link right there on the left. Changing the template, for example, is easy!



With Wordpress, on the other hand, I have to navigate to the dashboard and go to the appearance tab and go from there. 

All in all, I like everything about Blogger better than Wordpress. That is why you are reading this blog on Blogger!