Comments on That's a Terrible Idea: Administrative Annoyances

Try TypePad.com from SixApart. It's made by th...

2009-11-17T01:55:19.944-05:00

Try TypePad.com from SixApart. It's made by the same people who do MoveableType (powers BoingBoing). You get a rich template language for fine-grain control of the site, they manage it all for you, and it's very cheap (you pay a small cost for the excellent support they give you).

Also I used to work there, it's a good team and a good product.

I don't like blogger. It demeans the quality o...

2009-11-16T04:45:58.419-05:00

I don't like blogger. It demeans the quality of your writing, in my mind. I use wordpress self-hosted, and am happy with it, but making a more content-oriented site (and a less blog-style) does take some tweaking. You can see on my site, for example, a category-navigation widget in the sidebar showing all topics, and my 'find posts by category' page is also customised.

Squarespace looks very promising though, I can see why you'd look at it. I imagine the features I just described about my own site would be much easier to achieve in squarespace.

I actually like the wide, clean format of your tem...

2009-11-15T04:02:27.860-05:00

I actually like the wide, clean format of your template... very refreshing in an age of Web 2.0 garishness.

Carson: That's good to know. I looked around ...

2009-11-13T11:25:38.114-05:00

Carson:

That's good to know. I looked around the interface for that kind of feature and had trouble finding it earlier. Thanks.

AWizardInDallas:

I hadn't considered scribd. I guess I could do that as a way to get around blogspot's relative feature lack. That certainly doesn't beat actually having proper pages with documents on them, formatted properly and not subject to two different services' whims.

I'm a huge user of google's services. I have 90+ google documents, presentations, and spreadsheets and at least five gmail accounts. I use maps, reader, and I used to use calendar regularly. I'm not thinking of moving because I don't like google, but because blogspot isn't doing everything I want it to.

After thinking about the move for 20 hours I'm not so sure I want to do it anymore. If I set up the domain properly and get in contact with blogger support about the comments issue, I think I'll be happy enough with the service here to keep going.

I like the template here, which I basically made myself.

Also, here is a really good site for free
2009-11-13T09:49:47.892-05:00
Also, here is a really good site for free Blogger templates, in case the look of your site isn't what you want.

You might consider posting some of the documents y...

2009-11-13T09:46:31.752-05:00

You might consider posting some of the documents you've mentioned to Scribd and embedding them in your posts. This also gives you a traffic link back to Scribd, which is a growing online community. I'm just starting to try this myself.

I've also recently discovered how to embed Google docs which means I can embed a spreadsheet or presentation to a post and it'll automatically update after a while.

I personally love Google's products, don't mind the toolbar (in fact it's how I get to my dashboard) and am sticking with it to see what they come up with next.

"I’m not particularly happy seeing blogspot i...

2009-11-13T02:55:28.908-05:00

"I’m not particularly happy seeing blogspot in the address bar. I feel like it cheapens the site."

Actually, one reason I went with blogspot for my blog is that it was easy and free to point my own domain to it (unlike Wordpress, which iirc charged an ongoing fee for it).

See here for the instructions on how to set up the DNS with your domain registrar.. and
see http://blog.eldergoth.com/ for mine in action..