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
I literally just signed up with both mere moments ago, and these are my first impressions. My "Holy Crap! I'm a blogger now!" moments.
This one isn't as fresh as my word press response. I made myself write that one first since knee jerk, I liked blogger better.
- Instant gratification- YES! From "I want to start a blog" to "I have a blog, and I'm looking at my first post and it's mine and it's beautiful and I love it!" in no time flat (probably why I liked it best on first glance).
- "Where do I go from here?" Not as apparent right off the bat, but I kinda like not feeling fenced in. Even though word press has a dashboard with lots of stuff to explore, I wasn't as turned on by it because I don't want to look at other people's blogs right now, I want to play with my shiny new toy
- Stop showing me how to tag people. I've used G+ before, I'm familiar with the platform (personal gripe, might have been helpful to someone else)
- "How do I get readers?" No obvious promote pages (word press took me to one directly after my first post) but I guess that's what the tag people bit is about?
So, thems my first thoughts. Now its time for coffee
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Edited to add: I am now going to try to edit this post, just to compare ease of editing functions. Word Press was a cluttered nightmare. It looked nothing like the generate content page, had A LOT of extra distractions, and no obvious "push this to apply your edits" button (well, it did, but it was juxtaposed with the "trash this" link and that made me scared to push it). So far, I like this platform much better. It's just like when I was originally generating the content, the update button is where the publish button was, nice and intuitive, and there's nothing else going on to distract me.
So, the final score - I like editing on blogger much better. My final say on first impressions is that blogger is a better platform for anyone intimidated by the idea of starting a blog. It's streamlined, more intuitive, and provided great instant gratification. Word Press will probably have a lot more for me to explore (or maybe it will just be easier for me to find more to explore? we'll see) but I like blogger better for the "I just want to make a simple blog!" experience.
-R
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Edited to add: I am now going to try to edit this post, just to compare ease of editing functions. Word Press was a cluttered nightmare. It looked nothing like the generate content page, had A LOT of extra distractions, and no obvious "push this to apply your edits" button (well, it did, but it was juxtaposed with the "trash this" link and that made me scared to push it). So far, I like this platform much better. It's just like when I was originally generating the content, the update button is where the publish button was, nice and intuitive, and there's nothing else going on to distract me.
So, the final score - I like editing on blogger much better. My final say on first impressions is that blogger is a better platform for anyone intimidated by the idea of starting a blog. It's streamlined, more intuitive, and provided great instant gratification. Word Press will probably have a lot more for me to explore (or maybe it will just be easier for me to find more to explore? we'll see) but I like blogger better for the "I just want to make a simple blog!" experience.
-R
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