So Many Blog Hosts, So Little Time To Care

Since my recent break down of the awesome Sampa not working for me, I decided to notify everyone about a dilemma I've been coming across lately. I said before in my previous post, that I had been looking for a new blog host a week earlier. Choosing one was difficult. These were some of the things that it HAD to have.

• Free service (A must! I am not paying to simply be heard)
• HTML editing to EVERYTHING
• Templates/Layouts I could easily change (see above)
• At least ONE built-in feature Blogger doesn't have
• And so much more that I cannot remember

I'll tell you now that I probably have accounts on every blog hosting service just to see if it was right for me. After much searching, I found two hosts that satisfied most of my needs. They were Sampa and ShoutPost. And comes my dilemma: both, at a glance, seemed like something I would truly want. Unluckily for me, I was not going to sign up for yet another blogging service. Finally, I chose Sampa (Why? I have no clue). I was very satisfied except for the fact that my screen resolution was to big (or small) (see previous post). So, I canceled my account at Sampa. Hoping that ShoutPost would give me better results, I signed up. I did NOT like it at ALL. Too me, it was way to Myspace-y. When I came across a problem, there was no FAQ or contact information that I could find. I didn't even know how to delete me account. The only thing that I think was supposed to help me was Rocky (the Tom of ShoutPost). So, now, I am burdened with a ShoutPost account for life!

So what does the title of this post have anything to do with ALL blogging services if I am only talking about two? Well, I wanted to create a pro and con list of all the blog hosts I know so far, but then realized that that would take forever. Below are links to all the blogging services I know of. If you know more, feel free to tell me and I will gladly add it to the list. (Please provide the name of the blog host as well as its URL)

• Blogger
• WordPres
• Movable Type
• TypePad
• ShoutPost
• Sampa
• B2Evolution
• SquareSpace
• SiteGround
• SolidLoad
• LivingDot
• BlogText
• LiveJournal
• eBloggy
• BlogDrive
• tBlog

And now here are a couple of helpful links that might allow you to choose the right host:

• Blogger Vs. WordPress
• Movable Type Vs. TypePad Vs. Blogger Vs. B2Evolution Vs. WordPress
• TypePad Vs. Movable Type
• Blogger Vs. WordPress
• Blogger Vs. WordPress

There are so many more out there! Just search for it in a search engine!

P.S.- Don't you every just wish that the right blog will just pop out?! Don't you every get just so frustrated!?

Sampa

A few weeks ago I had the sudden urge to start up another blog. However, I wanted something new and fresh and didn't want it on Blogger. I did lots of searching to find a blog host that fits my needs. Soon, I was a proud member of Sampa. Before writing this post, I had decided on copying and pasting the description of Sampa. Then, I decided to describe it in my own words. In a way, I would say that it is better than Blogger. It had everything. Photo Albums, many different layouts, full customization, free membership and more! But of course, thats what all blogs have now a days. I didn't get to explore Sampa that much since within a week I had canceled my account (more about that later). However, I did learn that Sampa blogs are not only blogs, there full websites as well. Many blogs can be created within that one website. Many pages can be created. There is so much more of Sampa I still do not know. The only flaw I found in it was that it takes a bit of getting used to in order to navigate through the design page. So, what is it that made me cancel my account? Well, let me first announce one of those famous lines...

"It's not you, it's me"
~Who knows who first said this line?

In this case the you is Sampa and the me is...well, me. The problem when editing my website/blog was that the scrollbars wouldn't show up, therefore making it quite difficult to view all options. When notifying Sampa about this, I learned that its not Sampa, it's my stupid old computer. My screen resolution is not big enough (or small enough, I don't know which). So basically, I deleted my Sampa website as well as my account. I really wish my computer wasn't so old, because I would choose Sampa over Blogger any day.

Blog Elites

Guess what? I'm on Blog Elites!

3wish

Just discovered this site called 3wish. It's a site that features a series of point and click games known as No.5. There are three characters; the boy, the rat and Mr. King Zhong. I have completed all of the games featuring the boy which is four parts (four games). I haven't started the rat one the I'm stuck on the Mr.King Zhong one. Can anyone give me some help?

The Kids In School With Me

In one of my previous posts, I talked about a poems written by Langston Hughes that talks about diversity in America. I finally found out what the poem was called. I got the poem from this website.

The Kids in School with Me
When I studied my A-B-C's
And learned arithmetic,
I also learned in public school
What makes America tick:
The kid in front
And the kid behind
And the kid across the aisle,
The Italian kid
And the Polish kid
And the girl with the Irish smile,
The colored kid
And the Spanish kid
And the Russian kid my size,
The Jewish kid
And the Grecian kid
And the girl with the Chinese eyes--
We were a regular Noah's ark,
Every race beneath the sun,
But our motto for graduation was:
One for All and All for One!
The kid in front
And the kid behind
And the kid across from me--
Just American kids together
The kids in school with me.