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You say yes, I say no
You say stop and I say go go go, oh no
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello

Goodbye Google Pages, hello Google Blogger. A few months ago, Google decided to shut down Google Pages and move its users to Google Sites. But the annoying thing is that Pages and Sites were not designed for the same type of user... not even close! Pages allows you to insert customized html, javascript and css; Sites allows you to insert... hm... custom text! Thank God, they didn't blocked custom text (yet)! :-D

I was not willing to pay for a webhost, neither willing to create my own artwork. That's too expensive and too boring for me. Then I decided to move to Google Blogger! Why? because it's perfect for all types of users. For the beginners, a 5-step wizard make them able to setup the blogger and start writing. For the curious guys, there are lots of pre-defined widgets that they can insert on their pages and a pretty easy-to-use interface for changing the blog appearance. And what about the geeks that love to create custom layouts, artwork, javascripts and explore a little deeper the user interaction/experience on their websites? They can really do whatever they want, by editing the whole blog html code, importing external scripts, styles, images... it's perfect!

Just for your reference, I spent just 60 minutes to: 1) create a new blog in Google Blogger; 2) pick a free layout template on the web; 3) import it on Blogger (you just need to click on a button, select the template's XML file and apply); 4) copy the contents from my old webpages to the blog; 5) clean-up the blog appearance (remove the Blogger's default widgets); 6) redirect the old URL to the new one.

You might be thinking "Oh, but you can't create serious websites in Blogger... those infinite scrolls are annoying!". Alright, just take a look at these websites: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Hela, heba helloa...