If Blogger were a Superhero, I would bet on the VIllain..

If Blogger were a superhero, its' battle cry would be: 'I'm clunky and I lack style and substance'

This week in Effective Social Marketing, I was asked to create a blog using the Blogger format. The set-up was long, the templates were atrocious and very limited as compared to WordPress and the installed options for social media were almost non-existent.

Advantages:

•  University of Alberta chosen platform for classes
•  Owned by #Google 
•  The platform is free
•  Less expensive than #WordPress
•  Custom Domain without payment

Source: bloggermakeover

Disadvantages

• Few prompts to give the user set up advice/guidance
• Few design templates
• Poor explanations for set up and terms
• Social channels are hard to find to set up.
• Long Set-up time to go through all the steps.

The tool you use and the difficulty in using it seem to be a matter of opinion but, other than the costs involved with WordPress and the need to occasionally know some #HTML codes, WordPress is a my choice in the battle of the blogging superheros. What's your opinion?

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