Common Blogging Tools

There are many blogging platforms you can use, some of which are free or partially free, some require a small amount of investment. Here are the most popular blogging tools for your information:

Blogger

Owned by Google, and it’s free. You can get your own account at www.Blogger.com and set it up quite easily. Just follow the steps on the screen.

Movable Type

Business blogging platform by SixApart meant for large corporations with multiple users. Available at www.SixApart.com/moveabletype

LiveJournal

Personal blogging platform also by SixApart. You can get a LiveJournal account for free at www.SixApart.com/livejournal.

TypePad

Entry level business blogging solution, available from SixApart for $4.95 a month at www.SixApart.com/typepad.

Wordpress

Wordpress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. To get started with WordPress, set it up on a web host for the most flexibility or get a free blog on WordPress.com.

You can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address and a name. You can blog as much as you want for free, your blog can be public to the world or private for just your friends, and our paid upgrades are completely optional.

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