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Who Shall Host Me?

August 4, 2006 at 8:31 am | In Rants, Site News, Teh Intarwebnets, Wordpress | 3 Comments

At this rate, I might return my ‘blog to the categoryless land of Blogspot due do WordPress’s philanderings. To me, presentation of a website is everything: if it looks bad, I’m not interested. WordPress do not allow you to mess about with the stylesheets, so I have to choose one off of a list. I don’t necessarily like any of these. Actually, the one I did like has now been slightly modified so that the headings in the sidebar look awful and as a result, I’ve had to change to a less aesthetic theme.

Problems:

WordPress	Blogspot
No style flexibility	No categories
Impossible to insert scripts (say, for Google analytics)	No import function

I expect that Blogspot will soon include a feature allowing people to import their ‘blogs: they have addressed this problem in their FAQs. The idea of not having categories puts me off working around the first problem for now.

Recently, I wanted to introduce Google Analytics to this site, but WordPress wouldn’t have it: any Javascript was soon changed to simple HTML. This would not be a problem on Blogspot. I am currently deciding what to do; any help would be much appreciated.

EDIT: I’ve just noticed that this style does not make full use of categories. I am now working on a Blogspot profile.

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Bah… Blogspot for the lose. What you need to do is buy squidgyegg.com and install WordPress on your own server. That’ll give you so much control over what goes on the page. So, so much…

Comment by Chronicler — August 4, 2006 #
make a real website from scratch using nothing but a toothpick and notepad

Comment by freddie — August 15, 2006 #
Agreed with both Chronicler and Freddie there mate.

Comment by John — August 20, 2006 #