A moment ago, I was typing about a few of the brighter sides of Blogger, and was ready to praise the system for being quite user friendly. However, I made a mistake by using the "Undo" feature to attempt to rectify a mistake in my typing, and discovered that all of my work dissapeared. Apparantely, Blogger's blogging system doesn't like "Undo" commands, and enjoys interpreting them as "Delete".
Anyway, a few more problems arose: after forgetting my username, I entered the wrong one whilst logging in, and discovered that there was no way to "log out" -- Blogger just kept asking me for my password. Of course, since this wasn't my correct username, there was no way for me to log in or out, so I had to clear my cookies manually and restart I.E. Not very practical or convenient.
Also, Blogger's "forgotten password" feature sees the user being sent straight to another website - google.com - which isn't the most convenient or user-friendly solution to recovering your password, since the two websites (run by the same company) do not appear to integrate very well at all.
But now onto the good points. The blogging interface is relatively good (aside from that "Undo" problem) as it lets the user make use of keyboard short cuts (ctrl+B for bold or ctrl+i for italics) and has a full range of formatting and alignment features to rival those of the old Wordpad for Windows.
Finally, HTML can be added or edited to your liking, so images and multimedia can of course be included, something which would be immensly useful to make your blog a bit more aesthetically pleasing, like so:
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