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Free Blog Web Hosts (Free Blogging Web Hosts)
A web log, hence "blog", is something like an online journal. It is basically a website where you post articles or journal entries about anything you wish. What makes blogs popular is presumably the ease in which it is done. The entire website is generated and maintained for you by the blogging software. All you need to do is to post your entries, and everything else is taken care of. The free blog hosting services here provide you with the space to place your blogs as well as the online services to create those blogs for you. You need only post.
Note that while free blogging hosts are fine for the occasional blogger who doesn't mind his blog unexpectedly disappearing as a result of the free blog host closing down, along with suffering the problems that occur when this happens, you may still want to consider getting your own domain name and using a commercial web host if you are serious about blogging. At the very least, buying your own domain name will help to minimize the disruptions that occur when you're forced to move from one web host to another. You can then install your own blogging software (free) on your site.
Alternatively, if you wish, you may also want to try a commercial blog host like
TypePad.
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Free Blog Hosting Services
- Blogger
Blogger provide you with both the hosting as well as the online interface that you can use to create and maintain your blogs. It is capable of publishing your blog to either their free online service, or, via FTP, to any web host you choose. You can choose to have posts created in their own pages, the number of posts appearing on the main page, whether or not to have archives, choose from a selection of templates or use your own, customize the template in any way you choose, create any number of blogs, generate a news feed, etc. You create and maintain your blog using their web interface. Their free blog hosting service provides a subdomain name like yourname.blogspot.com, and places advertisements on your blog.
- WordPress.com - Free Blog
Unlike the situation where you install WordPress on your own web host, getting an account here gives you a fully working WordPress blog with little fuss. The blog comes with built-in statistics that tell you the number of visitors you have and the pages they visit, themes that you can choose from, spam protection, the ability to make regular pages as well as blog posts, the ability to export your blog posts and comments for backup, support for multiple authors, etc. There are some limitations however: you cannot place any advertisements on your web page, nor can you put any JavaScripts (including those supplied by free web statistics services), and the videos that you are allowed to post in your blog are limited to a select few video sharing sites that the host allows. You are also limited to 50 MB of uploads for your files.
- BlogText.org
You can post blogs as well as photos to this free blog host. Among the facilities provided is the ability to view statistics on your visitors, allow people to subscribe to be notified every time you post an entry, organisation of your blog into customisable topics, etc. It has limited customisation capabilities in terms of the appearance of your page.
- Live Journal
You can post to this blog host either through its website using its online interface or through a desktop client software, which you can download. The latter allows you to post easily from your desktop while the former provides you with the option of posting from any browser. This blog host allows you to customize the appearance of your blog, post photos, create a community, allows your visitors to post comments on your blog, etc. It automatically generates newsfeeds for your blog.
- eBloggy Free Blog Hosting, Blog Templates
eBloggy gives you a selection of blog templates which you can customize, the ability to determine the number of posts on your main page, etc. You are given a URL like http://www.ebloggy.com/yourname. Advertisements are displayed on your blog.
- BlogDrive Free Blog Site, Blog Templates
BlogDrive provides you with a subdomain name for your blog (yourname.blogdrive.com), a selection of templates to choose from, multiple blogs under one account, etc. It places advertisements on your blog.
- tBLOG Free Blog Templates, Blog Hosting
You get a URL like yourname.tblog.com with tBLOG, a selection of blog templates, page statistics, etc. The service places a small button and text link on your web site.
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