Blogger, simple yet powerful

While having nice refreshing sips of traditional coffee in "warung kopi"(*) with wireless internet connection, I managed to play around with the look of my blog. In addition to that, I made a manga version of my profile picture. Check it out!

 

..87% looked alike. 

Well, this is what I spontaneously found while playing around in the configuration panel of blogging service site. blogger is awesome.  Everything is almost configurable. I can customize the  layout of the blog, adding various addon modules (called gadget), and also creating alternative way to post article by email, etc. And the best of all, it can be controlled easily. If one is new to blogging, blogger.com can be one of the options to try. The basic control should be very easy to understand. If one is familiar with the interface of webmail, setting up a blog in blogger.com should not be any problem. To get to know the feature better, one only needs to discover the dashboard and explore the subtabs in the in the main tabs.  Knowing the basic setup and how to post article is more than enough for starters like me. Later, if you are thinking to try another blogging service, I recommend wordpress, although by far, blogger is much simpler and easier, IMHO.

But once you know that the blog you are managing is like a display for your articles, you would like to tweak the look, the layout, the modules, etc, to make it more eye-catching and personalized. To do this you need to learn the advance configuration, which is still not that complicated. Who knows if later the blog can get a big hit on visitors. Of course it is possible if you could manage to post quality articles. But for now, let's stick to the easy feature of blogging so anybody can easily blog and share. Just add some simple addon or logo or picture to make the blog become more "you". It really adds the fun blogging.

*Kedai Kopi = traditional coffeshop. (The town that I live,  Banda Aceh, is known for having nickname "home for thousands coffeshops." And almost all cafe including the traditional coffeshops have free broadband wifi internet connection. I don't think any other town in this world has this extreme fanatism to coffee and internet...

This is only my humble review of the site service and features. For sure, I have no affiliation whatsoever to the company behind blogger or wordpress. Thanks for reading, comments are very welcome.

Rahmat