Brandon Moon

Well, I’m facing a bit of a conundrum. I’ve been playing around with WordPress, which is a pretty sweet blogging platform, and I can’t decide if I should make the switch or not. 

Pros:

• better interface for blogging, comes integrated with comments, site stats, etc.
• my wife just switched, so both of us being on the same platform would allow us to guest post on each others blog.
• better mobile blogging support (the apps are way better)
• way better themes (more professional, better design, etc.)
• more flexible design layout options (I can better specify what’s in the right column, rather than editing the raw html).

Cons:

• WordPress charges $12/year to point my domain name at it. That would mean either coughing up more money (which I don’t think I want to do) or… Giving up my custom domain (no more brandonmoon.com)!
• WordPress also charges you for custom theme development, so I couldn’t tweak themes like I’ve gotten used to.
• there are also other media limits and restrictions, though they’re not really that bad; I think I could live with them.

Well, that’s kinda what I’m facing. Lots of pros for WordPress, but the cons are kinda biggies. What do you guys think? Would you stop coming to my blog if I didn’t have the brandonmoon.com domain anymore? The new address would be brandonmoon.wordpress.com, so it wouldn’t change that much. 

Go check it out here and then let me know what you think (either here or over there, it doesn’t really matter).

Update: Since no one is commenting, I’m leaning towards dropping the domain name. Doesn’t seem all that important to anyone.