WarriorVisionw Upgrade and Revision

After using Apple's .Mac for nearly a year and their blogging software iWeb since its introduction, I have come to the decision to change my blogging provider to Blogger. The reasons for this are several and I will go into them a little more below. What I want to point out right away is that this is not an endorsement of Blogger over all other blogging options just as it is not an denigration of Apple and its blogging solutions. For my own purposes and the habits I have developed in blogging, this simply works better and addresses those things I feel are important to the future of what I intend for this site.

Major reasons are, as follows:

1. Apple's .Mac servers are WebDAV based. While this technology is not in itself an issue for me, the speed of those servers has been increasingly slower. This has been most noticable when directing others to the site and seeing them respond that the page is taking forever to load or timed out altogether.
2. The space limitations on the .Mac servers do adequately address what I view as the growing inclusion of multimedia in posts. With only a couple hundred megs, my options are to either edit iWeb pages in Dreamweaver for the purposes of embedding streaming code or continually purchase more space for video and audio clips.
3. Speaking of iWeb, it does indeed have promise for a great blogging utility but it has not matured quickly enough to keep up with the way blogging has changed in the last year or so. The advent of such sites as YouTube makes video blogging an ever more attractive option and there is simply no way to synchronize iWeb to that technology. Further still, iWeb still has a long way to go in terms of bugs and in cleaning up its outputted code. The XML is sloppy and while it has a rich set of editing options, there is a good chance an individual post may appear as a graphic rather than selectable text.
4. Not only can YouTube code not be embedded, neither can other types such as Google's AdSense, or links to blogrolls, etc.
5. Blogging from iWeb is limited to either being at my home computer or lugging my laptop around with a copy of the iWeb domain file which must then be synced with the home machine every time a change is made.

I will beging migrating older posts over from iWeb to my new Blogger home, starting with the most recent and working my way back. Stay tuned for more exciting developments and feel free to leave your comments. In the meantime, you can still find all previous posts here until I either migrate them completely or the account is closed.