By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I’m trying out both! I’ve been using Wordpress for about two years now. And this blog runs on Wordpress.  It’s familiar to me. However, I had nothing to do with the redesign. That was all of Kris Smith’s brilliant work. Maintaining a Wordpress blog can be coding intensive. I just write blog posts.

However, the urge to revamp websites is contagious. I felt the need to improve my personal site right after Techstartups.com got a fresh look. When I started my personal site 5 years ago, it looked advanced. Now it’s a static website that has a few select clips. I wanted a way to keep the website current with a written and video blog.

I first heard about the blogging platform, Squarespace, when I attended and filmed their holiday party. I signed up for the service yesterday. I didn’t make any commitments though. Squarespace lets you try out the service for 14 days (with no credit card needed to log in). So far, I’ve picked a design. I still have a lot of work to do in the coming days.

The good thing about the blogging platforms today is that you can blog without having to hire a designer for thousands of dollars. But by doing-it-yourself through Squarespace or Wordpress, you’re going to have to deal with their limitations. From my impression, you’d want to use Squarespace if you don’t want to spend time programming and just want to build a blog like its made of Legos. You’d be limited by your template design. Wordpress is an open source platform, so you have hundreds of plug-ins and templates to choose from.

You’ll have to buy a domain to for each one, so the cost is about the same. For Wordpress, you go through Godaddy.com or any of the other web hosting companies. Or you can host your site on Squarespace’s servers for a monthly fee.

And of course, there are other options. I’ve just narrowed it down to these two platforms. I think I’ll go with Squarespace. I still have 13 days to commit. Which platform would you suggest?

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