I've seen people do their blogs both ways - as part of their own website, and on larger sites like blogspot. What are the advantages/disadvantages of each??
I use blogger but have the blog show at my own domain. That allows the blog to blend with my site but I can use all the tools and the interface.
I've seen people do their blogs both ways - as part of their own website, and on larger sites like blogspot. What are the advantages/disadvantages of each??
A couple of short things from me: an advantage to Blogspot specifically is that so many others (at least on AbsoluteWrite, anyway) use it, and it's easy to log in to make comments on others' blogs - the comment then has a link to your "ID" which is your blog site.
You can do that using your own website/blog, but you have to manually add your URL when commenting on other blogs and such.
A huge DISadvantage of Blogspot is that it forces visitors who want to comment to set up an account on a 3rd-party, e.g., Google. I don't want to have to set up an account on Google, have YET ANOTHER password to remember, etc, just to comment on a blog!
I thought you could post anonymously. I already have an account, so it was never an issue. But, that does suck.
Maybe it depends on the blog - the two that I've tried to post comments to both required me to log in with a Google ID.
I don't accept anonymous comments on my blogs either, but there are better ways than requiring an account to achieve this.
I'm not sure I understand your point. It's still an extra login/password to have to try to remember, especially if you have no need for those other services.At least with Google, the login you user for Blogger would be the same one you use for Gmail, for Google Analytics, for Adsense, for Adwords, for Google Groups, and for anything else Google has, and may come up with in the future. Google is efficient like that.
I'm not sure I understand your point. It's still an extra login/password to have to try to remember, especially if you have no need for those other services.
And Google is already such a vast corporate monopoly that many people want to have nothing to do with it, so why force your blog-visitors to have to get in bed with Google just to comment? It's as if you required customers at your store to first register with McDonald's before they could do any businesss with you. Sure, maybe they get discounts for Big Mac's and Ronald McDonald merchandise by doing so, but some people would rather have nothing to do with Micky-D's.
Agreed. That's why I went with a private host. Anyone can post. I just have to moderate sometimes.
I use the Akismet, too, among others. I assume you're using Wordpress. I do, and I love it.
I'm using WP software running on my own site.