Elbows Music Blog Community

plus you don't have that nasty "blogspot" in your URL - a word which still to me suggests what happens when you blow your nose on the ground...  as in "hey look at that Minnesota farmer, he just left a blogspot on the ground"...

Blogspot - If your basic want is simple "electronic publication" than blogspot should be enough. Maybe a little inadequacy with template features... but that's about it.



Wordpress - If you want to go beyond "e-publication", a virtual version of magazine, then wordpress is the only way to go. (eg. integration, better control how to fish information from your database, far more control of page presentation, plugins, networkings with other blogs, etc.)



The problem: majority of mp3 bloggers are on blogspot. So there isn't many case study that will help you point to novel use of wordpress for mp3 blogging.  Most people who moves to wordpress also very much using wordpress as shinier version of blogspot.com instead of start exploring what new blogging trick is possible on wordpress.  The biggest mp3 blog using wordpress have only begin exploring wordpress feature, and mostly on "design" and presentation tweak... not yet on database-blog networking tweak.



The biggest promise for wordpress is in the later parts... but we need pHp guru in the group.

the 'blogspot in the url' and the 'blogger search bar on the top' are like tattoos, they eventually become invisible and you forget they're there

Posted by: acidbirdthe 'blogspot in the url' and the 'blogger search bar on the top' are like tattoos, they eventually become invisible and you forget they're there

They still bug me. I know a lot of successful blogs on blogger, but I'm still turned off to new blogs that are *.blogspot.com

Posted by: squashedSo,



the main challange for wordpress users...

start introducing nifty new blogging tricks and share it with other people.

Once you go Wordpress, you'll never go back. There is so much you can do and so much help to do it. Plug-ins, themes, etc.

http://blogging.wordpress.com/

http://theblogjoint.com/2006/08/29/top-wordpress-plugins/

http://scribez.wordpress.com/2006/09/16/new-ten-best-free-wordpress-templates/

http://silentbits.com/2006/09/12/top-wordpress-themes/

http://del.icio.us/popular/wordpress/

As someone who just made the switch, I will say that messing with coding is easier in Blogger. HOWEVER, I am less than an amateur with that stuff. It seems WP is more customizable and the features are more robust after the first week of working with it. The plug-ins, as Brandon mentioned, are pretty fun, too.



Squashed, maybe you can help me with a few tweaks I wanna make but not sure how to do within the templates. If you're so kind, can you email me? somuchsilence@gmail.com. Thanks.

I guess we need a "real" how to for sure.

Count me in too.

Switching to WP was the best (blogging) decision I ever did make.

Squashed has been quite helpful with me via email, so thanks to him. Though I may not be done with you yet.



As for Word Press, what about photo hosting? Blogger was pretty simple because it pretty much did it for you. With WP, is it easier to host images on your own server or use photobucket or some such service? I've found that if I'm hosting them myself, I'm quickly learning how to size/manipulate images, which is a good thing.



Anyway, just curious what anyone else does with that. Because on Blogger you never had to worry about cleaning up those photo files. Seems like you might have to if you put them on your own server space.



Thanks,



Kevin

Posted by: *Sixeyesi've been looking at wordpress templates again and am considering making the change once again. But, i'm very nervous about switching sixeyes, it's been over two years online and i've done around 2,800 posts... it just feels like i'll be starting from scratch. another problem is that i can't get sixeyes.com, unless i want to fork over a hugely unreasonable amount of cash. should i just start with a brand new name, or will that make things tougher search engine wise. if only there was a 'Switching from Blogspot to Wordpress For Dummies' book.

Is there a variant of your name that you could use? like, sixeyesblog.com, or sixeyes.net? 

You should be able to import your posts into Wordpress. Also, you could keep your blogspot, just have it automatically forward people to your new site with a meta tag.

 

Posted by: *Sixeyesi've been looking at wordpress templates again and am considering making the change once again. But, i'm very nervous about switching sixeyes, it's been over two years online and i've done around 2,800 posts... it just feels like i'll be starting from scratch. another problem is that i can't get sixeyes.com, unless i want to fork over a hugely unreasonable amount of cash. should i just start with a brand new name, or will that make things tougher search engine wise. if only there was a 'Switching from Blogspot to Wordpress For Dummies' book.

 if you're worried about your old content... i dont know about word press, but with Movable Type you can import entries from other blogging platforms...