Monday, 24 December 2012

Some of The Free Blogging Platforms

A blog is personalized webpage or web gallery where you can share your thoughts , experience and memories and  get paid for that too.  In modern times, blogging has come as powerful way for people to express themselves. 

Any individual, institution or a company can create a blog to share photos, memories and expressing their thoughts without spending anything( in most cases). A popular blog can have audience any part of the globe.


To start there are many different platforms available for free on the Internet where you can create your blog. Some of these are listed:

Blogger 


This is the free blogging service provided by Google. Creating a blog on blogger is very easy. The whole setup, signing in to creating the first post takes less than an hour. Blogger has really easy to use layout . It gives detailed stats, reader interaction, templates for your blog. You can use your own domain name (of course you have to buy it first) or can use the default abc.blogspot.com. Once get hold of the blog, you can start earning using adsense. However the ease of use capability of blogger comes with the fact that is not very customizable. Other than the default themes and dynamic views, there is not much customization. 

Service:Free
Setup:Easy

More info on Blogger

Tumblr


This is another blogging platform which provides the content in a more visual form. You will find more of the pictures and other forms of media on Tumblr blogs. It is fusion between regular blogs and twitter like feeds. The posts are short and frequent and contain more of visual content. People who want to keep blogging as a hobby will find this very interesting.

Service:Free
Setup:Easy

More info on Tumblr

Wordpress


Wordpress is a popular open source blogging platform  with plenty of features and a dedicated community of followers and developers. You will get loads of plug-ins, themes, gadgets to put in your site. It is giving you loads of customization options but at the cost of ease of use.

It is not as easy to create a blog on wordpress as on Blogger but when you get hold of it, you can really turn your blog into a professional blog. As a WordPress user, you have the option of setting up a WordPress blog on your own server (for free) or creating a WordPress-hosted blog at Wordpress.com. 

WordPress is a scalable solution that allows you to do everything from maintain a single blog with a single user to an entire stable of blogs with multiple users all overseen by a primary administrator.

Service:Free
Setup:Hard

More info on Wordpress 


Posterous


Posterous is for blogging on the go. It is  to share the experience anywhere anytime. It is an excellent online blog-publishing service that is similar to Tumblr.  Posterous Spaces has excellent privacy and viewing features so that you can easily control who can see what on your Posterous Spaces site. 

It has loads of features included to facilitate blogging on the go, such as free mobile apps for iOS and Android smartphones so you can update your blog on the go and a simple, well-designed user interface.

Service:Free
Setup:Easy 

More info on Posterous

Some of the other free blogging platforms are:


Livejournal :
Another extremely popular free blogging site here, currently supporting over 46.3 million journals and communities, it was once the most popular blogging site, but has since been overtaken by Blogger and WordPress.
If you want a straight forward blog/journal then this is a great choice.

Blog

This free blog host is becoming more and more popular as time goes on, there’s a great selection of themes available and even supports advanced features such as multi-authors, it’s free to use but premium accounts give extra functionality including your own domain and customisable ads.

Blogetery.com

Journalfen.net

Blogsome.com

Opendiary.com

Tblog.co

Weebly.com

Blogster.com





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