Bunny's Test Blog

Comparison Between Hosted Blog Platforms

I tested thirteen blog platforms. Here is the write-up of my adventure.

Another photo

Right, I’ve uploaded another photo. It’s not difficult for me because I’m a bit geeky (oh, minor bug: I got a backslash before the apostrophe in the code I was given to copy-paste after uploading). But if I compare the way Blogsome (and Wordpress in general) deals with adding ...

Theme Change

I got tired of Lilies. It’s beautiful, but a bit heavy graphically. I changed the theme to something a tad more sober. It takes some time (like… more than 10 minutes?) to change though — not very good for people who want to try out different themes to see what ...

Photo upload test

Uploading the photo wasn’t a big deal, apart from the fact that there is still an encoding issue somewhere. The code I was given to display the photo was the following: You may or may not note that my beautiful Léman was mangled in ...

Broken

I tried changing themes and it just resulted in breaking the layout. If it looks all nasty, it’s normal. It won’t last forever.

Un test d’encodage

Histoire de voir, on va tenter le coup en français. Le contenu de la base de données est-il effectivement en utf-8, quel que soit l’encodage du blog lui-même?

Theme and Template Trouble

I tried changing the theme for my weblog, but it just succeeded in breaking the current layout. Anybody else had this kind of problem?

Backslashes

Oh, and another point. That backslash in my title is evil. I’m sure I can remove it manually, but it definitely doesn’t look good for the new fresh clean user when something like that happens. What version of WordPress is this running on, by the way?

Extra Plugins?

Now, imagine I want to install the Spam Karma plugin, how would I do that? Could there be a way of requesting additional plugins to be made available?

First Blogsome Post

Well, this looks very nice! I’d dream of having something similar for my school blogs. Are the Blogsome people going to release the code used? And more importantly, how will this scale? I’m having major scalability issues with my school blogs, so I’m very curious about how things will go here. ...