I cancelled my Typepad account today and made the move over to Wordpress. I was initially attracted to the idea of using a hosted service for my new blog since it would mean one less detail for me to deal with but I quickly discovered that Typepad just wasn’t for me. The simple act of adding a header with navigation was going to be pushing the limits of customization within their system and that was a huge red flag. As a designer/developer I’ve come to expect a certain level of control and my new best friend Wordpress is giving me just that. There’s something very comforting about being able to change anything an everything not to mention the increased speed of uploading these changes. If you’ve every used hosted CMS apps like NING you know there’s typically a few second delay when uploading changes - I bit longer than your typical ftp. The minor annoyance is exacerbated by having to then navigate a link or three to get back to your CSS file.