Best Five Blogging Platforms
Now that we know what a blog is, let us surge ahead towards setting up a blog.
First and foremost, one needs to decide which blogging platform he/she will use. Listed below are the best five blogging platforms a newbie can opt for.Please note that there are many blogging platforms out there, you can try out the others as well. Let’s have a quick look at these blogging platforms to get started.
The number of blogging platforms is growing with the popularity of blogging. However, after a thorough research and based on inputs from some veteran bloggers we have come to conclude that the below mentioned are the most popular and most commonly used blogger platforms.Of the five listed below, the first four are free to use platforms and the last one is a paid service.
Blogger is by far the most popular and free blogging service owned by Google. It is one of the easiest to use and you can instantly set up yourself. You can go from blog-less to publishing your first post in less than 15 minutes thanks to its extremely easy setup process. Various features s such as drag-and-drop template editing, geo-tagging for location-based blogging, and easy publication from editing tools like Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and Windows Live Writer. Group blogging feel the best with Blogger. So if you are looking for easy-to-use and instant-setup then this is where you go.
Open source revolution on Blogging caught up with locals like a wildfire with the introduction of WordPress. The best part about wordpress is that you can set up a blog hosted on wordpress at WordPress.com
or you can use it on your website as a front end or as a blogging interface. The open source community has welcomed wordpress and thanks to the enormous community of developers, WordPress has themes, plug-ins, and gadgets of all stripes. Though it may not seem easy to get started with but once set up, there is not stopping.
The launch of Tumblr could not have been timed better. The USP of Tumblr is that is more focused on video, images and other media embedded blogging. As rightly stated on lifehacker.com, ‘ It's a style that appeals to a lot of people and the ease of setup coupled with the informality of Tumblr is a winning combination for people who aren't looking to commit to a blog as an involved and time-consuming project’.
This is one of the free blogging platforms, unique in its own style. It is an absolutely no fuss and totally easy to use blog. Simply put posterous is blogging by email. In their own words (as described on the site), ‘Posterous is the easiest publishing platform around. If you can email, you can manage a website and share it with small groups or the world.’
While the above four blogging platforms were free, Square space charges you based on the service you opt for. SquareSpace's strongest focus is providing design services for newbies in such a way that they can redo it themselves. So if you are looking for advanced blogging services and support then Squarespace is one of the blogging platforms you can keep in mind.