Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Filler or Fuller? Posting every day
Sitting down to queue up this week's posts, I find myself wondering: what is the "ideal" posting schedule?
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The Experiment: Mobile Apps
Yesterday, I was out and about all day, so I had to rely completely on my mobile apps to keep up with the experiment.
I can't say I was too impressed with Bloggers.
It stayed true to the simplified format that won me over before, but the app is too simple. As far as I could tell, all you can do from it is read posts and write posts. I'd not a bad app, exactly, but I didn't feel like I was really using a mobile extension of Blogger. It was more for like, I don't, emergency blogging? Like you're out and about and simply have to post this photo or this comment - much more like Twitter for your blog, in my opinion. I wanted my stats, mostly (oh vanity) but aside from that, the four large icons that are my only choices just didn't seem like enough.
This round goes to Word Press, Blogger. Sorry.
[edit to add: I'm using an iPhone 4, if anyone was curious.]
I can't say I was too impressed with Bloggers.
It stayed true to the simplified format that won me over before, but the app is too simple. As far as I could tell, all you can do from it is read posts and write posts. I'd not a bad app, exactly, but I didn't feel like I was really using a mobile extension of Blogger. It was more for like, I don't, emergency blogging? Like you're out and about and simply have to post this photo or this comment - much more like Twitter for your blog, in my opinion. I wanted my stats, mostly (oh vanity) but aside from that, the four large icons that are my only choices just didn't seem like enough.
This round goes to Word Press, Blogger. Sorry.
[edit to add: I'm using an iPhone 4, if anyone was curious.]
Monday, December 2, 2013
The Experiment: Adding Photos
Fortunately, that little bout of silliness gave me something a little more serious to write about. It's not much, and it's not as relevant to a web serial, but it might come up,and it is part of my experiences, so why not.
Adding photos in blogger was SUPER easy. Formatting them within my post was also, super, super easy. I'm not too surprised by this, given that this is a blogging platform, so a lot of people probably use it to post photo heavy content, but seriously, so easy. Sizing, picture location relative to text, and each other, the uploading itself, all beyond easy peasy. Peasey? Who knows?
At any rate, should your web serial ever need to include pictures (say, a character sketch, an important symbol, a map), it's no problem on blogger. In fact, it's so easy, I may find myself throwing random David Tennant bones out there occasionally, just to inspire me. :)
Adding photos in blogger was SUPER easy. Formatting them within my post was also, super, super easy. I'm not too surprised by this, given that this is a blogging platform, so a lot of people probably use it to post photo heavy content, but seriously, so easy. Sizing, picture location relative to text, and each other, the uploading itself, all beyond easy peasy. Peasey? Who knows?
At any rate, should your web serial ever need to include pictures (say, a character sketch, an important symbol, a map), it's no problem on blogger. In fact, it's so easy, I may find myself throwing random David Tennant bones out there occasionally, just to inspire me. :)
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The Experiment: This round goes to Word Press
A completely just for fun, silly thing.
Word Press has a little box in the upper left hand corner that tells me this is my fifth, sixth, seventh post, and I just looked up and realized I'd hit 11. So, I dropped some gratuitous Doctor Who.
Rather than going back and editing my 10th and 11th posts here (because while the two mirror each other somewhat, both blogs are not perfect matches) I'll just give you a double doctor whammy in this one off, no other point to it post.
Happy (belated) 10th and 11th posts everyone!
-R
Word Press has a little box in the upper left hand corner that tells me this is my fifth, sixth, seventh post, and I just looked up and realized I'd hit 11. So, I dropped some gratuitous Doctor Who.
Rather than going back and editing my 10th and 11th posts here (because while the two mirror each other somewhat, both blogs are not perfect matches) I'll just give you a double doctor whammy in this one off, no other point to it post.
Happy (belated) 10th and 11th posts everyone!
-R
The Experiment: Building a Buffer
This entry is a little less about blogger vs word press and a little more about using blogs for web serials
making myself slow down sometimes
using blogs for web serials.
using blogs for web serials.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
The Experiment: Drafting and Scheduling
I almost forgot to even make this post, since it was sooo easy to do here on blogger. Also pretty intuitive on word press, but blogger just seems so much more streamlined. Honestly, there's probably equal amounts going on on both pages, but I just seem to "get" blogger better. We'll see how that goes over time.
[Edited to add]
Yup, even saves my draft pretty darned well.
Honestly, the more I'm using both of them, and less afraid I am of word press, the more they seem pretty much the same. I'm sure I'll find more differences as I get into the gritty complicated bits, but for now, I think it's just a matter of preference. Both are fair easy to use, both are fairly customizable, so it's whichever one you grok, I guess.
[Edited to add]
Yup, even saves my draft pretty darned well.
Honestly, the more I'm using both of them, and less afraid I am of word press, the more they seem pretty much the same. I'm sure I'll find more differences as I get into the gritty complicated bits, but for now, I think it's just a matter of preference. Both are fair easy to use, both are fairly customizable, so it's whichever one you grok, I guess.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
The Experiment
Part of what I want to do with this blog is experiment with Blogger vs. Word Press. I've heard good things about both, and want to just dabble around and see what I do and don't like about each.
The idea is to more or less have both blogs mirror each other, which the only real differences being where I explore each platform. So the "Writes" content will be the same, but anything tagged as "The Experiment" will be all about my experience with the platform directly. Less about writing, more about publishing.
So, for anyone curious about my adventures in self-publishing, follow along here and at http://raevenlywrites.wordpress.com/
I'll try to talk mostly about blogger here, and mostly about word press there, but I won't flat avoid mentioning them on each other because sometimes direct comparisons are what I'm doing, but I'll keep it to a minimum.
-R
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First thoughts
The idea is to more or less have both blogs mirror each other, which the only real differences being where I explore each platform. So the "Writes" content will be the same, but anything tagged as "The Experiment" will be all about my experience with the platform directly. Less about writing, more about publishing.
So, for anyone curious about my adventures in self-publishing, follow along here and at http://raevenlywrites.wordpress.com/
I'll try to talk mostly about blogger here, and mostly about word press there, but I won't flat avoid mentioning them on each other because sometimes direct comparisons are what I'm doing, but I'll keep it to a minimum.
-R
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First thoughts
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