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WordPress for me, with my websites.

I've only used WordPress and thus far it has been a good experience. Therefore, no reason to try anything else.

I've been experimenting with Moveable Type and Expression Engine, but up until this point in my blogging life I've been a WordPress lemming. I might try Habari but unfortunately I'd have to move my site over to a PHP5 server which would mean some downtime.

All in all it's about what fits into your workflow and and ability. Personally I dread having to learn a million new template tags so I've stuck to WordPress. For you it might be best to go down another route. The only thing I can suggest is trying a few different platforms out and seeing what fits best. Also, make sure to bounce around the platform's community and see if it's something you'd want to be involved with.

i use wordpress. i used to use blogger and it's good if you are a beginner or don't have time to manage an extremely flexible blogging platform like a hosted wordpress blog. but apparently i have no life and a lot of time so i love wordpress. if it is hosted, you can do many things with it. hopefully you can get the money to host one soon. check out jooster.com , this is where i get my hosting and domains from. the cheapest i have seen for a long time. they have hosting from 5 bucks and .com,.net,.org domains for 15 bucks.

If we're suggesting hosts I get my hosting by HostMonster (an off shoot of BlueHost I think). $6 a month with domain register included. I've had great uptime with them and they offer basically unlimited bandwidth and storage (300GB of space and 3TB transfer). My only problem with them has been a relatively crowded CPU, but they moved me to a different shared server and it's worked out fine. Tech support was great too. They come highly recommended by me.

I use TXP on my main site, and have been setting up Expression Engine on a different site. I would say it's nice to stick to one you know, but where's the fun / learning in that? I'd rather be versed in many and be able to use whichever one fits the site best, rather than being a diehard fan of one or another.

I love WordPress... perhaps because I am so much at ease with writing plugins or perhaps it's just because I don't want to use anything new.

One thing I have to say is get off Blogger. I was one Blogger for a while and ended up hating it. WordPress offers a far nicer interface, more customization, and a better experience in general. Even if it just means you switch to WordPress.com, I recommend you forsake Blogger.
I could also work out a free hosting deal if you would like.

Having used Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress and Textpattern, I can say with a good degree of certainty that it really matters what you're wanting to do with your blog. I find Textpattern easier to design with due to the template tags (though from what I hear, WordPress has template tags in the pipe.) Textpattern is great at natively dealing with comment spam without any plugins or extra countermeasures like Akismet, Bad Behavior or Spam Karma. Textpattern is easily the best choice for a "deep" site that includes more than just a blog. But if you're just wanting a blog, then WordPress is definitely what you should go with.

Wordpress for me!

I think a lot of the "why did you choose this blogging app" questions have to be answered with what you know, and what your goal was for the blog.

For me it was the community and the fact that I didn't have to go out and learn some obscure language to figure out how to blog. WP just worked and it got outta my way.

I love wordpress.

I have a wordpress t-shirt.

I've been using blojsom for over 1.5 years now. It can do a lot of things.

For hosted blogging, I like Tumblr.

I'm going to toss my vote over to the Wordpress crowd. It just works and has so many plug-ins. Plus it's solid and has never let me down. Bonus due to the fact that my hosting is all over it as well, so I know it works.

I use squarespace for my blogs

I have a free (basically) domain name because my parents had about 15 domains on annual renewing and I chose the best one they had. If I were to get my own domain name, meaning I pay for it and all, it would cost me about $10/year for the name and $7/month for a good hosting plan from GoDaddy. That will come to $94 a year if I bought hosting per month, and $85.60 if I bought 12 months of hosting all at once. If I took the former path, it would be 26 cents a day. Start thinking about those little things in life that could end up paying for a blog. Maybe just put away 50 cents everyday and you'll have more than enough for a nice start on a blog.

I use wordpress because it's simple for me and it requires no setup on my end because my hosting does it for me.

WordPress all the way, although I've messed with ExpressionEngine, TextPattern, and Habari just for fun. I always end up coming back to WordPress. I like WordPress because there's a huge community of users to contribute help, tutorials, themes, and plugins. It's amazing.