Which platform is better- Blogger or WordPress

These are the two major blogging scripts and they each have their strengths and weaknesses.
Blogger is quick and easy to set up and you are likely to get high in the search engine, Google quicker than wordpress as Google own BlogSpot.

WordPress on the other hand is better if you prefer customisation. There are limitless amounts of themes and plugins, both free and paid, however free is more popular with themes nowadays.

Blogger has a very simple interface and is easy to use. You have very little options however to keep the interface clean and easy to use. WordPress however has a quite complex interface that is very web 2.0. There are so many options regarding your layout (theme and widgets-sidebar things) that you have a unique look regardless.

Blogger and WordPress can both be installed on your own hosting/server but WordPress is easier to get it set up and running compared to blogger which requires you to give it your ftp info so it can transfer it over.
If you don’t want to have to worry about bandwidth and space then both offer a easy to use website, wordpress.com and blogspot.com. You can make as many blogs as you wish and are given a free sub domain (eg. yourblogname.wordpress.com or yourblogname.blogspot.com)

One major difference is the fact you can run ads on blogspot yet wordpress forbids you putting adsense or any ad network on your blogs. This restriction does not apply to self hosted blogs as wordpress call them, only to wordpress.com blogs. However some people still do put ads on wordpress.com blogs and get away with it.
This is a big downside for wordpress and another annoying thing is the fact that while blogspot offer you to put your own domain (eg. yourblogname.com) on your blog for free, wordpress charges $10 for the same thing.
And yet another annoying thing is you have to pay $15 a year to edit CSS on wordpress where as on blogger/blogspot you can edit the CSS files for free! However this does prevent, as said by many wordpress.com users, it turning into Myspace, which let’s face it looks pretty bad when some users play around with it!

However wordpress wins in the customisation area as there are well over 4,000 plugins on wordpress.org alone for wordpress and these vary from simple ad management plugins to fancy gallery plugins that can turn your wordpress blog into a fully featured gallery. WordPress can be an arcade, a wallpaper site or whatever you want with the help of some plugins and some theme editing.

Blogger on the other hand is just for that. Blogging. It has not nearly as many themes as wordpress and wordpress themes tend to be a bit more professional than their blogger counter parts.

All in all WordPress is designed for the more professional blogger but for people who simply want to share pictures and things with their friends, blogger is just as good!