Salintheus

Well, I have been posting lots (if you haven’t noticed) on both blogs still trying to find the best one.
At the moment, I love WordPress.

This time I might do some proper summations:

Setting-up: I can barely remember this. It was a close one but I believe it goes to Blogger due to WordPress colour scheme.

Customisation: WordPress hands down gets this one. Even though Blogger allows you to create layouts and paste other people’s code in, the WordPress one’s look infinitely better. Even though there aren’t that many (100+) they each have customisable features

Ease of posting: If we’re talking about ease and not enjoyability, Blogger gets this because their ‘poster box’ is laid out in the traditional manner and there is nothing else to it. Piece of cake. WordPress is almost as easy but has a couple of annoying features that force you to work in source view (which I don’t mind though).

Knowledge: This is about how much information about yourself you can display without the viewer having to visit another page. This is very hard to decide. Almost all the Blogger layouts allow you to display information where as only a few WordPress ones do. For the sake of sheer knowledge, Blogger wins this round.

Maintenance: I can’t really judge this as I haven’t dealt with any actual comments yet.

Widgets/Extras: Widgets to WordPress, Page Elements to Blogger. This is very, very hard to decide. Blogger offers some more general ones like YouTube Video, Poll and so on. WordPress’ are a little different. Flickr, Meebo, Sonific Songspot (Last.fm type service) and some more odd ones. Blogger have one that allows you enter HTML and Javascript which would allow for widgets from other sites. WordPress really needs one like this, desperately. Most of WordPress’ are just customisable lists.
Out of sheer quantity, it is a tie. But ultimately, it ends up as a tie. They both offer some really good ones and some basic ones. But they also offer some very different ones to each other.

RSS: Out & In: Blogger screwed this up. Because I am situated in a GMT +9:30 timezone, it treated it as a +9:00 for the RSS. It set all of my posts coming from Blogger out by 30 minutes. WordPress won that round.

Dashboard Quality: Both are functional and they both each have some annoyances. Blogger display lots of stuff in few links where as WordPress do the opposite. So one means a lot of reading and one means a lot of clicking. For those with slower connections, Blogger would be the choice. But because of the way it is laid out, the WordPress one wins overall because clicking and finding exactly what you want is much better than reading through a whole bunch of badly displayed information.

Tagging: WordPress has tags and categories, Blogger has labels. On WordPress, I use both. I categorise my posts and then assign tags to the specific post. Organisation genius there. Blogger has its labels. They are just tags. WordPress win this round.

Commenting: I haven’t made or received any comments to judge this yet.

Offline client?: Okay, I had some rather interesting experiences with this. I tried QTM, Quamana and Journler. It was a terrible experience. QTM was the best but posted to drafts and didn’t work with Blogger. I still have to try MarsEdit though.

Firefox plug-in friendly: I use the ScribeFire Firefox addon for blogging. I highly recommend this for blogging as long as it is not used with Livejournal. It works perfectly with Blogger but needs more for WordPress. As for my other plug-ins, NoScript and AdBlockPlus, they don’t affect it unless there is a video on either blog. In fact, they do nothing to the blogs. Excellent.

I removed the Mac Friendly criterion because it was silly.
Blogger: 3
WordPress: 4

Its very close. I might add a few more criterion as well though.
Flock Compatibility.
Ease of discovery.
Web 2.0 integration.
On own host.

Well, thats it for this latest installment of Blog Wars. I shall post again for this in a couple of weeks when I have my hosting set up.