You can see a running commentary of “BlogCastGirl’s 2008 Blog Platform Challenge,” my experience at the three different sites, starting with http://blogcastgirl.wordpress.com. Click on the “Comparing Blogs Page” (http://blogcastgirl.wordpress.com/blog-challenge/) for an index of posts that guide you through all three platforms.

For ease of use, I like TypePad.
> It has a great control panel that lays out the major components of a blog in an easy-to-understand manner.
> It has a clean look and feel.
> It is pre-packaged with software, hosting, and support together. I would prefer a “blog-in-a-box” over buying each service separately, plus a tech to ride herd. This is why Squarespace is on my list (but it isn’t doing well).
> Typepad doesn’t have horizontal navigation for pages that I have found. I sent in a question to support to find out if I can get it.

For user navigation, I like Wordpress.
> People seem to find it first. I have only had comments on this site, none of the others.
> It has horizontal navigation, which enables me to create a “blogsite” with static pages.
> I checked it on an optimization validator and it had no errors, TypePad had 15, and Squarespace had 8.
> I like Wordpress.com’s stats. The presentation of statistics on TypePad and Squarespace is cleaner looking, but I still preferred Wordpress. Squarespace has really spiffy graphs that spin-forth before your eyes, but other things hold it back.
> I am crossing my fingers that upgrading to Wordpress.org would enable me to keep the things that I like while customizing and monetizing in the long-run. Any input on this point? Should I stay camp at TypePad?

At the point, my blogs are demos, and lack the functionality that you currently have. My next foray is to build a blog on Wordpress.org already pre-installed at a hosting service.