Checking out the competition

I'm creating this blog to see what Blogger is like to use. I'm mainly interested in what the user interface is like, since I'm planning to write user interface code for my own content management system (Daizu CMS).

Well, so far so good. It's easy to get this thing set up, and the WYSIWYG editor seems to work quite well. There doesn't seem to be a way of inserting special characters like   though, except for doing it by hand with the ‘Edit Html’ option or pasting them in from elsewhere. Still, if I was using this regularly I would want to write stuff in a proper text editor anyway and paste it in.

I'm using the beta version of Blogger. That's partly so that I get to see the latest and greatest version, and mainly so that I don't have to bother creating a new account and keeping track of yet another password. This new version just uses a general Google account, which I had anyway.

OK, that's enough for now. I'll post if I have anything worthwhile to say about how Blogger fares as a CMS.