Blog Comparison (Blogger vs. Wordpress)

After you decided what kind of product you will sell, next thing to do is choose a domain for your online store. Tight budget? Don't worry there's a free blog you can start with. Here, I'm gonna give you some review about blogger (from google) and wordpress.

Themes and customization
Blogger.com: You can edit template layouts, styles and colors, or install a third party theme.
Wordpress.com: No template editing. Style sheet editing is only available as a paid upgrade. Many of the 60+ themes let you upload a header image. Some have additional customization options.

Visitor stats
Blogger.com: You can include third party tracker scripts
or any type of script.
Wordpress.com: No scripts allowed. The admin dashboard provides 2 days of stats and daily, weekly and monthly graphs.

Import
Blogger.com: Not available.
Wordpress.com: Import from Blogger, Type·Pad, Live·JournaI, MovabIe·Type or another WordPress blog.

Image storage
Blogger.com: 1 Gigabyte. There is no interface to browse through the images unless you sign up for Picasa Web Albums.
Wordpress.com: 3 Gigabytes. Paid upgrades are available to add more space.
You can also upload .ppt, .doc and .pdf files (more file types with an upgrade).

Static pages
Blogger.com: Not available.
Wordpress.com: Create posts or 'pages'. Static pages are listed in separate menus.

Categories
Blogger.com: 'Labels'.
Wordpress.com: 'Categories'.

Optional excerpts
Blogger.com: Not available.
Wordpress.com: Some themes allow unique text. Others depend on a "more" tag.

Post by email
Blogger.com: Submit your posts by email. You can receive new posts by email too (helpful for team blogs).
Wordpress.com: Not available.

Contact forms
Blogger.com: Not available. You could add a third-party contact form, however.
Wordpress.com: Simply add the tag [contact-form]to any post or page.

Private blogs
Blogger.com: You can restrict access to invited Google account holders.
Wordpress.com: You can restrict access to 35 invited Wordpress account holders (unlimited with a paid upgrade). Alternatively, individual posts can be password protected or Private.

Team blogs
Blogger.com:  Administrators and non-administrators only.
Wordpress.com: Administrator, Editors, Authors and Contributors.

Comments
Blogger.com: Visual confirmation and moderation options, but no editing of comments.
Wordpress.com: Moderation, comment editing and Akismet spam protection.

Widgets
Blogger.com: Each widget has a brief description to help you decide. Removing them is easy.
Wordpress.com: No descriptions, and the admin area provides no explanation of how to remove them.