The one and only Mark Goodacre offers his advice to potential bloggers on three basic questions: Blogger v. WordPress; integrated interests in one blog v. separate blogs; and domain name v. “.wordpress” or “.blogspot”. I offered my own thoughts in the comments.

I think WordPress is where it’s at. Blogger has a reputation of being “simpler,” but WP seems pretty simple to me. I also appreciate the ability to add “Pages” and to track all my comments made on other WP blogs. I would recommend starting out in WP and staying there, rather than starting with Blogger and moving to WP like a lot of folks do.

The main problems with WP from my perspective are the lack of versatility. To some extent, you’re imprisoned by their pre-set options. With Blogger, you can make changes to your code, allowing you to attach codes for outside statistic sites. With WP, you’re stuck with their built-in blog stats, which aren’t bad, but they aren’t as comprehensive. With Blogger, you can forward your feed url to feedburner and therefore track your subscribers more easily. Not so in WP. I am also sad that, even though I pay money for my own domain name, my blog is still WordPress hosted and therefore I cannot make the above changes nor can I add nifty widgets available to self-hosted WP bloggers, like Logos’ RefTagger.