Blogger vs WordPress Blog

Hi all,

Let me start off by stating that I'm a complete newbie to web development, blogging etc.

A bunch of friends and I are wanting to start an online blog / forum with the aim of adding an online shop section at a later stage. Now before we begin we want to setup something that will be easily scalable, and that can handle these features from the get go - thus saving us time and effort in future.

Off the bat I'm considering the wordpress.org platform for the site and then hosting with either Afrihost or WebAfrica. Does WP support a forum and eCommerce? How are payments handled?

I see that there is another platform called Joomla and Drupal - any recommendations / suggestions on these platforms? or should I be sticking with WP?

Another great plus would be mobile and desktop apps that allow us to manage our site and do posts from there.

Thanks in advance!