I chose WordPress for this blog having seen how flexible it appeared and also the wealth of themes and plugins around the net. Setting it up has mostly been a trouble-free experience, including making a few posts and adding a variety of plugins to do stuff like displaying photos. However, a couple of glitches have occurred, like the sudden disappearance of the Visual Editor (at least in FF. It was OK in IE on Parallels – I use a Mac). Google had a boatload of hits referring to the same problem which no-one seems to have cracked conclusively yet although some folk have had success with a variety of different approaches, none of which worked for me.
I have worked around it by installing yet another plugin – another rich text editor that replaces the tiny_mce editor used in WordPress 2.1.3. I found it here