adhese blog

What a task. Selecting a blog platform for our little blog. A couple of months ago we agreed that we needed a blog. Ok, first things first, a blogtool. We created a Wordpress.com account and that was it. Last week we found some time and so I started the blog.

One sidenote: Under no circumstance were we going to host the blog ourselves. We want to avoid the use of tools that need maintenance, we are 4 men strong and we can’t waste time updating and ugrading followed by converting and downgrading and cursing and loosing time. No way, discussion closed. We have our own services that we want to concentrate on.

Back to wordpress, nice interface, easy as 123. I was posting in a matter of seconds. Until suddenly I realized that we wanted to show ads that run on Enchanté … bad luck, wordpress.com does not allow javascript in the text widgets. Ok, google for a workaround … nopah, no workaround. I mailed the support team and explained our situation, they answered quickly, but the only solution (apart from hosting ourselves, but … discussion closed) was VIP Hosting, which we did not consider for a small blog like this .

Ok, next step. We created a Typepad account and tested the Pro solution – which we would need – Typepad seemed ok, but I had two remarks:

1. It seemed a bit slower  (and pinging the server confirmed this).
2. I was no too excited about the interface.

These two remarks made me test a third possible solution … Squarespace. And so far so good. So far we can do everything we want, it is affordable and the UI is ok. We’ll see.