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Web site: www.blogger.com
Date of first review/ name of reviewer: 6/3/08 [Emily Hummel]
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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.
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