How about a quick overview of the most popular blogging platforms!


Probably the most popular blogging tool.

  • Free
  • No installation
  • Free hosting available or ability to FTP files to your own site
  • Missing built in trackbacks and categories
  • Only one type of feed available without other services.
  • Templates. Good for a quick, good design, however harder to customize your own template.
  • Reliant on Blogger.com which has a tendency (or use to) throw errors.
  • Upgrades coming, hopefully. Recently added image uploads and hopefully more features are coming.

  • Fully loaded with features
  • Cold Fusion based
  • Easy to install and customize. Or so I hear.
  • Runs on your site.
  • Comes with full source code and has an easy to use admin area.
  • Downside is that it’s not free. Ok, so it kind of is free for personal use. See their site for details.


Full featured blogging software that can create static or dynamic (php) pages. Runs on most web servers and is priced based on number of users. I have no experience with this, however I hear it’s nice.

  • Free
  • Easy to use
  • Fully loaded with all the features you need.
  • Installed on your site. (Unless you use which is the basic WordPress install that is hosted for you)
  • Requires PHP and a MySQL database
  • Lots of plugins and themes available
  • Built in search

  • Has most blog features. Only thing missing is trackback functionality when posting.
  • Priced per year at three different levels.
  • Requires you to post though their website.
  • Posting to your own website is possible via .

Some of the software above I have more experience with than others. It all boils down to price, features and power. I would chooseWordPress above them all for personal use or business use. WordPress takes a little more effort as you have to install and maintain it yourself. Keep in mind that some hosts include it with hosting plans viaFantastico. is an Automatic Script Installation program that will install WordPress for you.

Just want to blog and be happy? Then use BlogSome (because it’s WordPress driven) or Blogger. Both are two of the many sign-up and blog sites. No knowledge necessary.

Agree? Disagree? Did I miss something? Feel free to comment.