Blogger or Wordpress

OBlastradiusO · Mar 2011

I'm still trying to find a cheaper way to set up my portfolio site. Carbonmade is fine but I can't show a resume link. Can anyone tell me if they know any good blogger or Wordpress portfolio tutorials?

Stinger88 · Mar 2011

Check out my Blog (in signature). Still WIP though. Using Awesome Inc template.

Also heres the tutorials i followed to set up the portfolio page image viewing thingy. Blogger isn't the easiest yet but its getting there.

Lytebox viewer
http://ilook12.blogspot.com/2010/01/lytebox-image-viewer-for-blogger.html

images side by side
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Place-Photos-Side-By-Side-In-Blogger

OBlastradiusO · Mar 2011

Thanks man! I luv your blog. I'm not a fan of scrolling down gallery however. Is there anyway I can make a gallery that is fixed centered using clickable thumbnails?

EDIT: Nevermind. I didn't see the second link

OBlastradiusO · Mar 2011

Stinger88 wrote: »

Check out my Blog (in signature). Still WIP though. Using Awesome Inc template.

Also heres the tutorials i followed to set up the portfolio page image viewing thingy. Blogger isn't the easiest yet but its getting there.

Lytebox viewer
http://ilook12.blogspot.com/2010/01/lytebox-image-viewer-for-blogger.html

images side by side
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Place-Photos-Side-By-Side-In-Blogger

How did you get those link buttons (resume, portfolio, etc) positioned like that in your blog?

hawken · Mar 2011

if you know a bit of coding go for wordpress.

if not, blogger.

Stinger88 · Mar 2011

Dashboard > Posting > Edit Pages > New page

also if you are using Awesome inc (or other template) go to:

Dashboard > Design > Template Designer

to tweak the pages and layout, etc.

[HP] · Mar 2011

I think wordpress gives you a lot more control over pretty much everything. Wordpress evolved so much you can almost make full blown web-pages with it, but you can still make very simple blogs too.

Obviously, you would need your own hosting, whereas with blogger there's none of those problems.

Shitty thing about blogger is how it changes the language accordingly to the country you're at in the moment. I'm in Germany, so the website assumes I know German.

Stinger88 · Mar 2011

Does wordpress have a "Follow" function like blogger has?

I've seen some impressive sites with wordpress but I know zero code. I've been thinking about making a proper website and wordpress is probably the way i'd go.

Saman · Mar 2011

I'm interested in this too but I can't see your signature, Stinger88. I tried searching for it in the control panel options but I never managed to find it. Could somebody please tell me how to view signatures?

Maph · Mar 2011

I use Wordpress, but yeah; some coding is required to make it shine.

http://www.maphart.com

Stinger88 · Mar 2011

Goraaz. Not sure why you cant view sigs. Maybe Admin can help.

http://www.rickywestwood.blogspot.com/

Klumpmeister · Mar 2011

I use Dumblr.

makecg · Mar 2011

Wordpress for unlimited customizing

Tumblr is fast easy..
Not a fan of blogger think it needs some work.

I would go with wordpress..

hawken · Mar 2011

I built www.dadako.com in wordpress. It's pretty damn flexible these days.

But yeah blogger < tumblr. Blogger is fast becoming dead.

[HP] · Mar 2011

Btw, some people say you need some coding skills for wordpress, I beg to differ really.
The only struggle you *might* have with it, is setting up the MySQL db, but even for that you have step by step guides on wordpress.com, so really it's a very straightforward process to put wordpress on your hosting, and it opens doors to way more stuff than blogger or anything else can offer, for free!

OBlastradiusO · Mar 2011

Thank you for all the suggestions. I have a blogger portfolio up but I will try wordpress as well. Thanks!

Stinger88 · Apr 2011

OBlastradiusO wrote: »

Thank you for all the suggestions. I have a blogger portfolio up but I will try wordpress as well. Thanks!

Great stuff. Looks familiar :P

@ Hawken: "But yeah blogger < tumblr. Blogger is fast becoming dead."

One of the main reasons I use blogger is because of the "follow" function. I know tumblr has this as well but I think all the artists I want to follow are using blogger. In fact i'm not really sure I've visited too many artists blogs that are on tumblr. Unless I'm not looking in the right places.

Is this the case? Not many industry peeps use tumblr?

jeffw23 · Apr 2011

There are two faces when comparing blogger to wordpress as they capitalized on their strengths which could be seen as non-existent to the other. Blogger has introduced a collection of easy to customize templates opposed to wordpress inability to edit templates. If you also want to apply your css, you would need to have a paid upgrade. It all boils down to what you are aiming for your blog, if you want easy access to tools concerning traffic and not much on storage, then go for blogger. Otherwise, go to wordpress' path.

Kwramm · Apr 2011

wordpress on dreamhost -> one button install...literally. Couldn't be easier. So if you signed up with Dreamhost via the Polycount thread, just go wordpress!

BadgerBaiter · Apr 2011

I coded my own blog with the help of a friend. Just need to put in the pagination script and it will be pretty groovy. No follow function obviously. I shall work on doing an RSS feeder though.

hgabriel · Nov 2011

I think wordpress will really be the better choice between the two. It makes for unlimited customization making it easier for you to apply themes and all those added features. I think the same can be seen with blogger but still, a lot of work has to be done with it to be comparable with wordpress.

Tumblr looks good also but has not been in ht upper tier of choices at least up to now.

monster · Nov 2011

http://www.weebly.com/

My portfolio website is made with Weebly. It's super easy to create a page. There's a built in gallery node, and I use a few custom HTML nodes. I don't have a premium account, I have a free account.

http://juantwo.com/

I bought my URL with a different (cheaper) service and set it up to point to the weebly page. But you can buy a URL straight from Weebly.

OBlastradiusO · Nov 2011

monster wrote: »

http://www.weebly.com/

My portfolio website is made with Weebly. It's super easy to create a page. There's a built in gallery node, and I use a few custom HTML nodes. I don't have a premium account, I have a free account.

http://juantwo.com/

I bought my URL with a different (cheaper) service and set it up to point to the weebly page. But you can buy a URL straight from Weebly.

Wholly Crap this board just keeps on tickin! Thanks for the info!

Jeremy Lindstrom · Nov 2011

Why do you care about a 'follow' function? You would have to have an account to follow and has zero functionality in relation to getting a job..

Blogger or Wordpress

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