What's your take...WordPress & Squarespace?

Hi Shawn, nor have I had a look at SP. Awhile back I met with someone and they mentioned that early on they were frustrated with WP, so ended up moving to Squarespace. But at that time they were reconsidering going back to WP. If I had the time, would love to explore it a little more.

Hope someone that uses it can chime in here. I will send a note out to the group and see if anyone uses it.

thanks for posting!

I haven't heard of SP...I'd be curious to hear more about it, as I'm planning on diving into a program (WP at this point) later this summer/fall to get a biz blog up and running.

Then there's TypePad...should we throw that into the mix? Does anyone know about that blog site?

Hi Paul, yes I do know Typepad. In fact our marketing blog, the first one we did is on Typepad. When we first started getting into blogging, we read the small book Blog Wild and he suggested Typepad.

In hindsight, it would have been great doing it in WP, but making the transfer, risk of losing RSS subscribers, etc, have put that thought on hold.

So Typepad, unlike WP, they do not have a free version. You will pay a minimum of $4.95 per month. It does have a wide variety of widgets and a choice of themes, but certainly not as much as WP does if you host you through your own server.

Also, customization of the blog is more limited, but they do have a very intuitive backend as far as setting font size, color, creating menus, etc. But again, you just don't find the variety of features as in WP. In fact, several times Judy or I have seen a great feature on a blog, only to find we cannot use it on our Typepad blog.

I know that several of the bigtime bloggers use Typepad, including Seth Godin.

I could go on and on, but DM me if you have any other questions about Typepad. Still my vote is for WP!

I use SquareSpace and find it flexible, easy and as a non-webby guy, ideal. The real deal maker for me has been their help desk, very personal, very effective and on the money.

WordPress frightened me and I also thought the templates limiting (is that only the free version). Although SquareSpace templates are nothing to write home about, I did find their simplicity works for me.

I also tried Typepad for a while, but too bloggy and not flexible enough compared....

--Terry