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My blogging friend Brad brought the fact that Blogger had finally introduced static pages to my attention in his post Pages Finally Arrive To Blogger. When I had the time I checked out the announcement of Pages and the pages widget:
Pages have been a top requested feature, and they are now available on Blogger in Draft! The Pages widget lets you add links to your pages as tabs at the top of your blog, or as links in your blog’s sidebar. — Blogger in Draft
While is was there I also read this below:
Jan 20, 2010Important Note to FTP Users – Last May, we discussed a number of challenges facing Blogger users who relied on FTP to publish their blogs. FTP remains a significant drain on our ability… 1 week ago. Known Issues for Blogger …
Two days later another announcement was made that they were terminating the ability to publish to a blog via FTP. The choices for affected bloggers is either have to use free hosting (blogspot.com) or point a custom domain to their servers, and that means all their blog contents must be on Blogger servers. –Deprecating FTP
… In evaluating the investment needed to continue supporting FTP, we have decided that we could not justify diverting further engineering resources away from building new features for all users.
For that reason, we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. …
Pages are in and FTP access is out
The feedback on the addition of the static pages feature has been positive. The feedback from Chinese bloggers has been negative as this was their only means of getting around the fact that internet access has been blocked in their country.
What we see at wordpress.com and at wordpress.org is a steady stream of Blogger bloggers who are exporting their blogs out of Blogger and into wordpress.
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dreamsburnred
February 9, 2010
I think the only reason why they need to have FTP support is because of 3rd party programs.
Other then that its useless, FTP access while great is useless since you can’t upload any files…just posts/images.
timethief
February 9, 2010
I have heard from one blogger who used to post only some of his posts and images from his own server. He was unhappy because he didn’t want to place all his content on the Blogger servers but he hasn’t yet made up his mind as to whether or not he will get a wordpress.org install or capitulate and load them all onto Blogger servers.
dreamsburnred
February 9, 2010
Blogger doesn’t host images…its held in Picasa online.
timethief
February 9, 2010
Ahhh yes … I should have remembered that. Thanks.
PearlTrader
February 10, 2010
Although, my blog is also on Blogger. I think wordpress is a better place for blogging but posting on Blogger looks easy.
Timethief, Thanks for the info.
Best Wishes!
Ibn Hanif
timethief
February 10, 2010
Posting on Blogger is easy. Coming to wordpress is a learning curve but wordpress software is superior and more flexible.
paulyeo11
February 14, 2010
Hello miss Tim , thank you for shareing , now i know i am using the right blog software. and thank you for your help to brighten up my blog today.
paul
timethief
February 14, 2010
Hi Paul,
I see that you clicked my username and found my blog. I do hope you are happy at wordpress.com. You know where to find me and when I’m not here in this blog there are almost 400 posts to read – so get busy! Joking … lol :D
paulyeo11
February 16, 2010
After read yr article again now I can see that wordpress are ahead of other . And very flexible software not so diff to learn with the help fm you
timethief
February 16, 2010
I have blogs on several blogging platforms and each one has features that are different from the others. IMO wordpress software is superior but there is a learning curve involved and some prefer the simplicity of Blogger to the challenge of learning to use wordpress. The good thing is that we have choices we can make.
erik aronesty
March 8, 2010
I use this script, and I’m keeping my content on my server: http://tinyurl.com/yj26okr
I want people to know about it so they don’t have to mess up their sites… but I think I’m too late.