Someone on ThreadWatch asked why I’m using WordPress instead of Blogger. Here’s the scoop. I was at a WebmasterWorld pub conference a while ago talking to a moderator there, and he said “Matt, you need to run your own site if you really want to get a true webmaster perspective.” That lodged in my mind for a while, and the same person mentioned it again at the most recent pubcon in New Orleans.
So I finally decided to get my act together and do a site. I decided to learn as much as I could. I already use Blogger at work, so I’m familiar with it and wanted to try something new. Typepad looked really nice, and I signed up for a while because of the domain mapping, but if you want to have normal content and Typepad on different parts of the site, it’s a little difficult (I do like the idea of central hosting to manage things for you though--no messy installation). Blosxom is pretty awesome, but it also takes some work to assemble things like comments. After looking around a bit, I decided to give WordPress a try. It installed fairly easily and it has served me well for all 4-5 posts so far. 
Should Matt be using Blogger on this site? The short answer is nope. I know how to use Blogger, and the idea here is for me to learn. I might give Movable Type or other stuff a try eventually. But unless I fumble around, make a few mistakes, and fall down sometimes, I’m not getting the most out of it. For example, it turns out the making a pretty site is kinda hard. Especially if you’re like me and you have the design sense of a moose.
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