Shankar Ganesh

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2 Free blogging platforms – Features list

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Wanna start a blog? Can’t afford domain & hosting? There are a lot of websites that allow you to create a blog for free, here are two with their features compared. Hope this serves as a reference for any one who wants to start a blog.

Blogger.com

  • Fast Sign Up: You can create a blog in just 3 steps!
  • Multiple Blogs allowed
  • You could make a blog private so that it is accessible only by the people you choose
  • You could have multiple authors on your blog(s)
  • Built in labeling (tag like) system for easy categorization of posts, and you could also access archived articles easily
  • Lot of built-in templates (themes) to choose from, and you could get more from other sites. Editing your theme is possible with the HTML Editor built in.
  • Easy to use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor for composing blog posts
  • Free Photo Uploading facility, upto 1 GB
  • Widgets or Drag and drop page elements for easier arrangement of items in your blog’s sidebar
  • You can post to your blog by sending an email, and this can be configured from your Dashboard settings
  • Mobile Blogging is also possible: Type the post in your mobile, send it to go@blogger.com

WordPress.com
This is another free and a very usable blogging platform, and here are it’s features:

  • Like Blogger, sign up is swift and really fast
  • Beautiful themes to choose from
  • HTML Theme editing is not possible, you cannot use scripts on your blog
  • Sidebar widgets can be easily configured, just by dragging and dropping
  • Easily configurable Flickr, Meebo widgets for showing up your stuff on your blog
  • A great stats system that tells you how many visitors came to your blog, where they came from, and what posts are popular
  • Private blogs possible
  • Comment Spam protection: WordPress.com protects your blog from countless spammers, who try to bash your blog with unhealthy comments
  • Import feature: If you previously had a blog on Blogger.com or other such services, you could easily transfer those posts to your WordPress.
  • Upload limit of 50 MB for your photos and other files.

Other than these, there are also many other free blogging sites like LiveJournal and others, but Blogger and WordPress are most preferred

Written by admin

May 17th, 2007 at 8:02 am

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  • http://technixupdate.com abhishek bhatnagar

    well as far as u and i knw both of these platforms rocks but wordpress will always have an edge over blogger.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Abhishek,
    Yeah, both of them are great, but the only thing I don’t like is that Scripts are not allowed in WordPress.COM

  • http://fresh-perspectives.blogspot.com pearl

    I tried wordpress.com and loved it.. but I also hated the fact it doesn’t allow scripts!! so stayed on the blogger – hoping to move to a hosted wordpress.org

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Pearl,
    Switching to a self-hosted WordPress Blog is the best option.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    WordPress.com is good in many ways like commenting section and overall interface.
    I liked blogger for the only fact that it allowed to edit themes, which is sadly missing in wordpress.com
    And as Shankar mentioned, hosted wordpress is the best way out if you can afford it.
    I too had done a comparison of both long time back. :-)

  • http://www.netwriting.co.uk/ richard
  • http://fresh-perspectives.blogspot.com pearl

    I most probably will before the end of this year.. and I need to get some readership going – heck may be I’ll switch well before that.. I hear soo many good things about wordpress that i start feeling like I am wasting time on blogger :) thanks all – may be I’ll be coming to you guys for help then :=)

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Pearl, you’re very welcome, and good luck in switching ;) :)