It is just that I started using Blogger and adapted to my site, with some Php twists built in. Presently I am working over-riding the “nofollow” in my comments (will keep you posted on that).

For me, right now, I am on a shared hosting account that is severely limited in resources. I have about 60 sites and growing. I need to eke all I can out of it. And it is not time for me to be switching plans.

But I enjoy hacking the hell out of Blogger, in fact, I have it integrated into a PhpBB backend (without the forum portion of things) … so go figure.

I was a total novice when I installed WordPress on free webspace, and although it didn’t take me long to make the switch to paid-for hosting (about a month) it was very straightforward to setup.

I would always advise people to go straight for Wordpress, because I don’t think you really learn anything worthwhile from using Blogger. It has it’s place, don’t get me wrong, but I found it a horrible thing to use.

I realise you can turn captchas off at your leisure, but TBH they turn readers off right from the start.I have 4 complementary anti-spam measures on this blog, but my readers don’t have to jump through hoops to make a comment as a result. I comment on tons of Blogger blogs, and I loathe word verification-it reduces the amount of comments I leave (and sometimes stops me altogether!) and just gets on my nerves.

I have no idea why you would want to host it yourself, as about it’s only plus point for me is the free hosting, but feel free to convince me

There are ways around the deficiencies that Blogger provides versus the power of WordPress. One only needs to apply themselves to understand them.

Before I get into comparing apples with oranges, it is noteworthy to point out that Blogger is a hosted service, WordPress is an application. We could easily compare hosted services such as MySpace and Yahoo 360 against MoveableType and Blosxom. Your arguments will still apply to both sides of issue.

Unlike MySpace and Yahoo 360, with Blogger you can host your blog. As such you can ‘template’ away a lot of your arguments. This is what makes Blogger top in my book.

If you choose to host with Blogger, then you are a fly-by-night blogger at best. WordPress offers you to make your blog somewhat legitimate. Either way, in the eyes of the public, you are what you blog.

Blogger also handles a lot of the Server overhead. Bandwidth issues are not an issue when posting and retrieving. With WordPress, it is handled on your server and if you have Shared Hosting — can be overtaxing.

Commenting in Blogger is User controlled. Most do not even know the options that can be used. I chose to have my comments moderated with the Captcha type verification. As a choice this was only to curtail spam. I can turn any of the options off at my leisure.

I turned on all types of Commenting exceptions in Blogger. I will accept Blogger Profile Comments, Comments with Website Links, and Anonymous.

Comments in Blogger are appended with the Nofollow attribute. This pisses me off. I am looking into a work-around for this. WordPress has a plugin to curtail this nasty microformat.

Images are not a problem in Blogger. They can be appended or uploaded directly to the post. Not sure what you meant by that.

My only concern about images is that users format them improperly, regardless of software. You can refer to my comment in Claire’s tip about this subject. One thing with Blogger is that they are easy to upload, too easy.

As for the questionnaire for uploading images to Blogger, I have never seen it. Uploading images are quick and painless.

But, if you are a masochistic Php programmer like me who likes to go against the grain … then God help you.