Okay then, I finally managed to get everything over, although it didn’t come without sacrifices, as I lost every comment that has been made. Okay, there may have been only ten of them, but I do feel that I lost a small part of the sitewith this.
Anyway, The past week gave me a good chance to evaluate the pros and cons of Blogsome when compared to Blogspot.
Pros:
– So many possibilities to customize. You aren’t limited to html-only anymore.
– The template is much easier to edit, and it comes with some good documentation.
– Categories. <3
– Custom fields are also possible with Blogsome. I’ll probably use them to rate individual episodes and anime, because then I’ll be able to sort anime and episodes by their ratings. I know something like that’s possible, but I’m still working on it, though.
– The possibility for custom pages. I have no idea what to use it for, but it’ll surely come in handy someday.
– A decent in-site Search Function.
– A Calendar, the most popular posts and links to posts I made a month ago. Always useful.
– Creating a blogroll made easier. No longer do I have to edit the template in order to add a new link.
– Better statistics. Okay, it may not seem useful, but who knows.
Cons:
– Uploading Images will be a hell.
– Blogsome’s pretty difficult to understand.
– The Wysiwyg-editor needs a lot of improvement. For some reason, it doesn’t really give me the freedom in posting, furthermore, it creates nasty extra space for new paragraphs. Something I’d like to do myself. Thank god there’s a way to turn this off.
– I have to be careful with using smilies from now on. This is because in the template, I defined each image to have a small border (as you can see when looking at some random screenshots). This looks great with screenshots. But for some reason, the all of the smilies also got a border. The result is this: 🙁
– Transferring posts was horrible, as I had to do it completely manually. That wasn’t really fun.
– Although the categories are great. You have to have a default category.
LOL Congratz on the move! 😀
I might be able to solve your uploading problem. Instead of uploading images using blogsome, you could upload them using a free image hosting site like imageshack! Haha that would probably save you a lot of time…
Have you thought about trying wordpress ? Animeblogger.net offers free hosting packages for anime bloggers 😉
uploading images can be done via ftp, post writing is in html, with a static preview underneath that updates each time you save.
And, you can transfer posts from blogger automatically ;D
probably a bit to late for that now though 🙁
Hehe, yeah. ^_^;
Still, I don’t plan to stay here forever. I’m probably going to move again somewhere in this summer. Around that time, I think I’ll certainly take animeblogger.net into consideration. 🙂
Thanks for the tip. ^_^
glad i could make a useful suggestion 🙂
Btw, would you be interested in exchanging links on our blogs ?
Sure. ^_^
*added Uknighted Manganime to blogroll*