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Moving on with the series [sorry for the delay] I will be showing you the joys of Blogger today! Listen up, and listen good! 
Overview:
Free Subdomain. http://yourname.blogspot.com
Free Ability to use Custom Domain. Once you have purchased it.
Abilty to set up Feed Redirection to FeedBurner.
Ability to publish to blog via email.
Ability to allow an unlimted amount of people to privately access your blog.
Ability to edit template.
16 Different Templates in a range of colours.
Ability to Upload Pictures.
Ability for Word Verfication on Comments, stopping spam.
Thoughts:
Blogger provides all the nuts and blots you need to run a basic to intermediate blog, all for free. The real letdown for Blogger though is the low amount of themes it has. Other than that I don’t have any complaints. You really do have to mess around with your theme alot to get it looking individual and even then.. lets just say its hard! Another complaint of mine on Blogger was that it didn’t have the ability for feed redirection, but it actually just enabled that there over the last week or two, so no complaints on that side! With the html of your template being editable you will also have no problems with blogger if wanting to enable meebo or flickr!
Overall:
A fantastic blogging system that really does allow anyone to blog in the simpliest of ways but lets the intermidate bloggers step their blog up a notch! It really has progressed since I first used it! A definate reccomendation! Even if you do want to change to a paid blog after this its as simple as clicking a few steps on import! Definatly keep Blogger in mind if your thinking of setting up a blog!
Tags: Blogging, free, howto, learn.
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Today is the start of a new Series, Free blogging.. Where, and why? Where’s the best place to get your free blog and what do the other competition offer? Well I don’t think it would be fair if we didn’t start this off with WordPress, it being one of the biggest blogging platforms at the moment, so on we go!
Overview:
Sixty different themes to choose from.
Option to add your own domain name.
Option to import posts from Blogger / Another WordPress Blog / Typepad and Moveable Type / Livejournal
Askimet comment spam control.
Option to make blog visible to only those you choose. [35 User Limit]
Wordpress widgets, including; del.icio.us intergration, Flicker intergration, Meebo intergration and Tag Clouds
Cannot edit CSS without paying €15/per year.
50mg Upload Space.
No option to allow FeedBurner to handle RSS.
No option for intergration of Google Analytics.
Free sub-domain: http://blogname.wordpress.com
Thoughts:
Well as you can see WordPress.com has some useful features but unfortunatly, you cannot edit your own CSS or add widgets, therefore you are really “stuck” within the system of default WordPress and your blog cannot really be unique without you splashing out €15/per year. There is a nice amount of themes to choose from however, including k2 Lite, k2 is what is running on this blog at the moment. There is intergration for some external websites that you see most blogs having these days, including Flickr and Meebo. I’m dissapointed to see they have no Twitter intergration though. As far as plugins go you can’t get any, this in my opinion aswell as the no custom CSS is what lets WordPress as a free blogging platform down.
Overall:
Overall WordPress.com is a great place if you are just “starting” blogging, or if you don’t want to have a custom theme or many plugins. It provides a way in which anyone can blog simply, with the standard nuts and bolts and not having to worry about anything! On the upside to this you can export your posts meaning if you start on WordPress.com and decide to go further into blogging and buy some hosting you can always set up WordPress on that and import your posts. For the starting blogger Wordpress is probably a good choice to go for, but for the average everyday blogger it just doesn’t have enough features.
Tags: Blogging, free, howto, learn.
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