A blog is very easy to create, and best of all its free! See below for three of the most popular blog platforms. In addition, blogs are equipped with RSS (Really Simple Syndication), which allows people to subscribe to your blog and get updates sent directly to them using a blog Reader. A Reader is software that monitors the blogs a person selects for updates and then compiles the updates in one place for them to read. There are web-based readers, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo! or Bloglines. There are also navigator-based Readers such as Live Bookmarks for Firefox. Therefore, by using a blog’s RSS feature, people get all your new blog entries sent directly to them, which is preferable since people do not have visit your website to see updates.
Here are 3 best of the best blog platforms commonly used nowadays:
Wordpress – http://wordpress.com/
WordPress is a very popular platform for free blog hosting that is available in many languages. It has many features including stats for your blog, protection from Spam, various templates and add-ons to customize your blog (such as photos and calendars), the ability to add multiple pages to your blog and more. The feature allowing you to add multiple pages is especially useful if you want your blog to act as your organization’s website. To finance your free blog, WordPress will very rarely put unobtrusive text ads on your blog.
Blogger – http://www.blogger.com/
Blogger is free blogging software that is owned by Google and available in many languages. It allows you to customize your blog with templates and colors. Blogger also has a feature that allows you to send photos and text from your cell phone to your blog when you are not near a computer. A blog on Blogger does not have ads, although you can add optional Adsense ads to make money from your blog. Note that Blogger does not have a built in way to collect statistics for your blog, but you are able to install other statistics software such as Google Analytics.
Blog.com – http://www.blog.com/
Blog.com is a free blogging site that is available in many languages and has a photo album feature. One downside is that advertisements will appear on your free blog and you cannot remove them. Also, you need a premium account (one you need to pay for) to view stats for your blog.
Also, there are many types of other software’s available like BBpress, WordPress for self hosted domains and more. Which software do you prefer? post your comments below!
