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Web site: www.blogger.com

Date of first review/ name of reviewer: 6/3/08 [Emily Hummel]

Additional reviewer(s):

Produced by:  Pyra Labs originally, then acquired by Google

Cost: Free

Description: Blogger is one of the many online blogging options.

Platform: Web-based

License:

Maturity:

Features:

• Extensive amounts of themes
• WYSIWYG editor
• Easy management of posts
• Third party applications
• Linked to Google Account
• Blog hosted on their server, though available on your own server as well.

Advantages:

• Supports multiple languages
• Easy to upload media (photos, video)
• V. helpful if you don't have your own domain
• Customizable themes, very easy to alter within the theme as well.
• Easy to customize where modular aspects (archive, links lists, info, etc) are literally on the page - drag and drop simplicity
• Favicons allowed
• AdSense supported

Disadvantages:

• Not as many plugins as Wordpress.
• Not having your own domain name (though this is an issue with most free blog services, including Wordpress)
• Blogger header automatically on every blog - this is easy to remove, however, with excising some html code in the template.

Tips:

• Blogger is an excellent first-time blogging software, and makes it very easy to dive right in and begin.  

Tutorials:

More information:

• Blogger Help
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