Giving Blogger a Shot

When I was initially starting to experiment with blogging, the first software I used was Blogger. I used it for about 5 minutes. It was complete crap. The extensive feature list consisted roughly of a barely functional text editor which you could use to post to a single-page website that looked like it had little more to it than a simple CGI news script.

Blogger has come a long way.

Recently, Hurricane Hanna was making its way to Charleston and my company wanted a website to communicate how the office was handling it (as the final backup in a line of backups). The site didn’t need to be fancy, branded or custom. It just needed to deliver a message and be able to be updated from anywhere. So I threw together a blogger site. That’s when I noticed.

Blogger has come a long way.

It’s now a viable blogging platform. It’s still simple enough to where any idiot can roll their face across their keyboard and setup a blog, but there are now enough features to keep someone like me interested. I just setup my first real Blogger blog today and plan to update it for a while and gauge the results. I also plan to do a little post highlighting some of the main features of the new Blogger that got me interested in the first place.