I used Blogger for a family website for quite awhile and went through a nightmare getting the cached pages off the search engines after I deleted it. It was a pretty big learning curve for me without any prior experiece, but in time I felt quite comfortable with managing my blogs - I still have a number of journals on Blogger.

I recently switched to WordPress for the new family blog and was frustrated to no end. It isn't at all like Blogger and the learning curve on this one seems steeper to me by comparison. I finally gave up and am going back to Blogger.

I would love it if someone would come up with something REALLY simple for dopes like me.

Good luck folks!