Give Your (Blogger) Blog A Make Over

Image via WikipediaWe been told thousand of time that blogger can compete against a self-hosted Wordpress blog. Wordpress is an open source project which means its source code is available to anyone who wants to enhances its features or add new application to it. Blogger however is developed and own by Google only API are available for developer to work on, therefore that are not many applications that compliments blogger than Wordpress. Does it mean that we can't have that professional look on our blogger blog? Lets look at the number of ways we can improve our raw blogger.

1. Changing the default template. Its important to be unique so spent some time on your template. For a sample of a blogger template, read this 3 column Blogger Template available for download now.
2. If you have your own domain, blogger actually allows you to link to it Publishing blogger on a custom domain. The problem with this is that the links are you have map to a custom domain are not reversible if you decided to return to a blogger domain name, however you can manually fix this.
3. You seen the donation buttons on Wordpress, you can do it on blogger too. Make your own donation button.
4. The best RSS reader was bought by google and FeedBurner Integrated to Blogger.com.
5. You can Adding a recent comment sidebar widget for blogger like any other Wordpress blogs.
6. Add an image to your blog's header.

Now go out there and show those big bad WordPress blog a thing or two.