blog site recommendation

chamberlain

I am planning on starting a blog on the first of the year, more as an excersize for myself than anything else, and am not sure what site to use.

I checked www.blogger.com, which seems pretty good, but I have no experience with this and am looking for input. Anyone use blogger, or is there a better alternative?

EggyToast

Since you're just getting started and aren't sure what you really plan to do with it, blogger and/or blogspot are both fine. I believe both allow you to export all of your posts to other software formats in case you do get more serious and want to buy your own domain/hosting.

matt has a problem

We use blogger at work, it was pretty simple to configure the standard blogger page to look like our actual website, and to have it publish entries to our site instead of the blogger.whatever.com address.

chamberlain

Thanks. It is good to know that blogger will let me easlily export things in case I do anything later.

Seeks

Thirding blogger, as far as free blogging stuff goes. You can also check out livejournal or something like that, but everyone's going to make fun of you if you do.

If you start your own site (pay for a domain/host), look into installing Wordpress or some other content management system on it.

A lot (if not most) of the popular blogging sites / content management systems, you don't even have to go to the site to post. You can just use a desktop client of some sort, like Windows Live Writer (assuming you're on Windows).

Zeromus

I personally prefer Wordpress to Blogger, but both are fine.

redguardian

In my experience Wordpress(.com) has nicer themes than Blogger, but Blogger gives you the ability to edit your CSS for free, which Wordpress(.com) doesn't.