I am sure most of you guys are aware of the different blogging tools available online. Blogger is probably the only free blogging tool available and can afford to stay that way because of google. But I also found that Blogger is also the most basic blogging tool that there is. Even after the new beta, there is really nothing great you can do. If you look at the interface, it is the same old compose box except for the added tags. Even the settings and options hasn’t changed much. Even your templates look the same even though you can add a couple of widgets to the sidebar now when you had to tweak the template to do the same. But there is still a long way to go. One of the disadvantages of blogger is that there are no expandable posts. The whole blog post, no matter how long it is, will be shown on the page. Well ofcourse, you can add these expandable posts but it would require a lot of complicated tweaking. The new blogger template is not as easy to understand as the old one. The themes to choose from are very limited too. And I themes I found on other sites were not very pleasing either. There is only so much you could do here. I’m probably loading everything against blogger here but you would realize how cramped it is when you want to go beyond the default stuff blogger gives you.
Coming to WordPress, there are two flavours. One is WordPress.com and the other is WordPress.org. WordPress.com is similar to blogger, it is free and it gives you a .wordpress.com blog but as good as it looks, wordpress.com sucks because there is only so much you can do there. It is very restrictive, you cant put anything related to Javascript on the site. So you cant paste your google analytics code or other stuff here. Then there are the upgrades that you have to pay for. There are several templates available for you to play around with but if you want to make changes to it, you will have to cough up $15 for it. It is not a good thing to do really, especially when you cant even paste Javascript related code. But if you compare feature to feature, the default wordpress is far superior to blogger. The writing tools are amazing, inserting an image is easy peasy. Expandable post can be done with the click of a button. Youtube links can be added easily with [youtube="link"] tag. You can add widgets to the sidebars and there are some really good ones to play around with. But still no javascript related code is allowed. Your site statistics wont be as cool as the one from blogger. But wordpress has an inbuilt stats page, that will suffice I am sure 
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Well if you want all the goodness of WordPress and more legroom, you need to get the wordpress blogging script that is available on wordpress.org site. Ofcourse, you will need your own hosting space and domain name. But it is the stuff made for bloggers. There are a million themes for you to play around with, there are umpteen number of plugins for every customization you need. It is just what you need to make your blog look professional like you mean business.
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