Bridge to Nova

As I’ve been on Wordpress for about a month, let me share what I like about Wordpress over Blogger.

Many plugins available

There are many advantages of Wordpress. The main obvious thing is that many varieties of plugins. I just imagine what I want to do with my blog and google it with wordpress plugin, BLAM! there’s always one available. In fact, the biggest headache for me is to choose the best suitable plugins.

Access to root directory

Another thing is that not really related to Wordpress, but I can’t access my root directory. So that I can edit .htaccess file anyway I liked. Of course, I’ve total control over robots.txt too.

Themes and ads

There are many themes to choose from and most of them are premium quality. Easily blended with adsense. Most important of all, I can inject adsense ads between posts without having to use any parser.

Schedule posts

This is my favourite part. I can schedule post to any day and time I want. I don’t have to wait and post. I simply have to check in “Edit timestamp” and then choose the time and date I desire. This feature would really come in handy if I plan to take vacations. Many blogger users are longing for this feature too. I hope Blogger team would soon implement this.

If I have to write down, there’ll be many more. Let me stop here. I’ll follow up later with the post What I like about Blogger over Wordpress.

Well, this is actually very very easy thing. But, as one of my friend couldn’t find this option himself, I feel that I should be telling my readers too. If any of my readers overlook this option, now you can config your Firefox to do exactly what you want to do.

Just go to Tools –>> Options.

After that click on the Tabs. You will see “New pages should be opened in:”, there are two options to choose.

Choose the options that you want and click OK. As you can see, you can configure other options such as Always show the tab bar, Warn me when closing multiple tabs or etc. Make yourself familiar with Options menu in applications, it could help you customize the applications as the way you want it.

Windows Vista has automatically created Shortcuts keys for the first 10 items in Quick Launch toolbar. You don’t need to do anything. Just use it! Only if you know how to use it!

For my Quick Launch toolbar above, the shortcuts are as follows.

• Windows key + 1 = Show Desktop

• Windows key + 2 = Flip 3D

• Windows key + 3 = Internet Explorer

• Windows key + 4 = Windows Media Player

• Windows key + 5 = Outlook

The list will go on for the first 10 items in your Quick Launch toolbar. It is such a great idea to reach our applications faster than ever.

Actually you can make any folder in your computer as toolbar in taskbar. But for my favourite, I’ve always made “My Computer” as a toolbar in my taskbar.

Here is the procedure to do it.

First right click on the taskbar and then go to Toolbars. After that choose “New Toolbar” as in the following pic.

After that choose the Computer icon as follow. In case if you want to make other folder as a toolbar not My Computer, you can choose any folder you want.

That’s it! You can access your newly created My Computer toolbar in your taskbar whenever you want to.

Some of my friends feel this feature is annoying and taking space in their taskbar. For me, it is very convenient whenever I want to open any folders. It is up to you to decide whether this feature is handy or not.

If you are looking to start a new amateur blog at Wordpress.com, there is a good news for you. Now you can host your images, movies up to 3 GB. It is a big improvement from previous 50 MB. As you know, 50 MB means nothing. But for 3 GB of space, you could blog for at least a year or more.

From their official blog, Matt Mullenweg announced

Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year.

He also assured in the comments section that they won’t roll back this update. So if you’re new users or existing Wordpress.com blog owners, you can blog without having to worry about webspace.

Our View

Well, as you know hosting on Wordpress.com can’t give you any customization. You need to use their themes, plugins and you can’t insert any ads code too. So that if you’re serious about blogging, I would suggest you to get your own hosting. If you’re serious about blogging and still can’t invest money for your own hosting, I’d suggest you try at Blogger.com as Blogger allow you to insert any ads code you want. After you’ve learnt about monetization, get your own hosting.