It's getting to be the time when I will have to select a new blog/site solution. I've been using Bandzoogle and WordPress in combination and I've not been completely happy with either one of them.

I tried using just Bandzoogle for a while, because they technically allow for just using the core site to post a blog. But I find it really inadequate as I've been a WordPress user for years. That's one of the reasons why it looks like I've only been blogging for a couple of months, when, in fact, I've been blogging for years. The Bandzoogle site erased all of the date information when I imported my past blog!

Not good.

It also doesn't display my posts the way I like. And although they've got some really great templates and allow for custom CSS, I've gotten really sick of code-monkeying. I have so many hats to wear with all of the marketing and PR I have to do right now, the graphic design element is a bit difficult for me. I'm using a template at the moment and I'm frankly not that happy with how crowded my site looks.

On the plus side, I have great mailing list tools with Bandzoogle. WordPress doesn't give me that. If I migrate over to WP entirely, I have to find yet another solution to manage that, and then there's an additional expense. It's not worth either the time or the money and I want a single solution.

And now to WordPress.

Ah, WordPress, WordPress. I have all of the same issues with you. To edit your CSS is just tiresome to me. And if I find a great template or theme, but it seems to me that everyone has a slightly different protocol as to how to comment things out--and what is up with your making me individually delete out manually every single iteration of the custom CSS I tweaked? Why did I have to do that just to get the theme to look the way you said it would in the Preview?

Even then it didn't, quite.

That's why I had to let my subscription to Custom CSS expire, you see. It was just a big ol' reset button for me.

So here I've been, jockeying back and forth between two sets of site stats, two URLs (three, really, because with my FB Fan Page it's become clear that I need to do some direct interaction in order to keep engaged with folks, but that's a whole nuther puddle of wax) just to keep things going--it's so very way not convenient to me. Me no like.

So I am ideally searching for a site host/blog solution that will give me the following things:

• Single-click postability from desktop, iPad , Android
• Single-click comment moderation from above sources
• Mailing list tools from above sources
• Web clipping to posts from above sources
• Post videos with sound and images from above sources
• E-commerce enabled
• Facebook /Twitter integration with Facebook "Like" button included
• Site stats including Google Analytics
• Allows for custom CSS
• Allows for Flash/FLEX integration
• Gives excellent massages

Okay, I guess that last one can be classified as a "nice to have". I'm sure there are quite a few providers out there that fit this bill perfectly!

Let me know in the comments how you think I should proceed. :-D