Intro... why I'm here

This blog is a bit of an experiment - a friend asked me to help him set up a blog, and make recommendations as to platform, features etc. Now, I've maintained the company's blog, and been a regular contributor for a few years now, but that's bespoke code on our own servers, so I really didn't have much by way of first-hand experience of Internet-hosted blogging platforms. What I did know was that Blogger and Wordpress were the most popular, and that should be where I start looking. So here I am - I will maintain a blog on both, in parallel, for a few weeks, to get the feel of them, before a) deciding which one is best suited to my purposes, and which I will maintain, and b) which one will be best suited to my friend. It may well be that the answers to a) and b) will be different, due to different blogging requirements, complexity and technical aptitude, and of course, personal preferences... we shall see.