There are two choice when you want to make a blog, free or paid one. It’s defending into your planing. if you want to do it for a long time, the best choice is paid blogging. But if you want to learn more about blogging, free service is the smart choice.
7 BEST BLOGGING PLATFORM
- Blogger
Blogger is my favorite free blogging platform. It was created by pyra-labs and bought by Google,inc in 2003. It can be found on the web at
http://www.blogger.com. I have used Blogger for my first blog. It’s really good to learn more about blogging without spend much money (no 100% free, you still need pay for internet connection). You can host blogs with multiple contributors, or you can run your own solo show. You can even use Blogger to make your own podcast feeds.Blogger offer a lot of feature, and the best one is customize themes. They offers a lot of free themes, but you can use third party theme also. You can learn more about CSS and HTML from here. It’s the smart choice to start your blogs. - WordPress.Com
Another blogging platform that is popularly used is WordPress, It is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHPand MySQL.
As a WordPress user, you have the option of setting up aWordPress on your own server or creating a WordPress-hosted blog atWordPress.com.On thing that i am not like it from free WordPress (WordPress.com) is self ads, even they do it very rarely. They will show the ads on your blogs to support the service. Free user can’t earn advertising revenue for themselves, except they change into VIP member. VIP member able to earn money from advertising with a feature called Ad Control. But they must have heavy traffic blog. However, bloggers will be required to split the revenues 50/50. - Tumblr
Tumblr is an interesting fusion between a full-fledged blog and a Twitter feed, and launched 4 years and 6 months ago. The style of blogging on a Tumblr blog is focused on short and frequent posts that are normally longer (or more focused on media like images or video) than Twitter updates but not as involved and formal as a regular blog post.
However, with Tumblr it is more media-centric which allows to include images and videos along with your posts and once again setting up an account is relatively easy. The platform itself is very customizable and at the same time it offers a wide range of themes. - Posterous
Like Tumblr, Posterous is intended to be a quick and easy way to share thoughts and media. Send a photo or a video, become easy. They’ll resize the image or convert the video for viewing on the web.
Blogging via email is baked right in as it was built for using it that way and integration with other social media services such as Twitter and Facebook make it a solid cross between micro-blogging and full-on blogging. If you like, They can automatically send your post to any number of popular sites like Twitter, Facebook, or Flickr.You can also make some posts on the web. They have a simple web editor. It’s absolutely free, no hidden fees for storage or bandwidth and no annoying ads. - MovableType
MovableType is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001 and become free license software (GNU General Public License) on 12 December 2007. It’s a powerful self-hosted blogging platform like WordPress.
The big advantage is how easy it is to run multiple blogs on a single install. It still lags behind WordPress in some aspects but when they brought the platform to the open source arena, it’s made some amazing improvements. The move to open source also helped develop the community, which will make or break a platform. - Joomla
Joomla is really a full CMS and it’s easy to create almost any kind of site with it such as a regular website for businesses, eCommerce, blogs or even social networks.
Joomla is designed to be easy to install and set up even if you’re not an advanced user. It’s powerful, easy and has a great community backing it. When you need specialized functionality, Joomla is highly extensible and thousands of extensions (most for free under the GPL license) are available in the Joomla Extensions Directory. They have growing community of friendly users and talented developers to support when you have problem with your Joomla blogs. - Drupal
Drupal is certainly one of the best self-hosted blogging platforms around but it also, like other platforms here, has the flexibility to run just about any kind of site. It’s distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or “GPL”), which means anyone is free to download it and share it with others.
Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal blogs, corporate brochures and large community-driven websites. Why? Because Drupal have a huge collection of powerful modules (like plugins) that give it even more power and also supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
