Timewell — Mon, 30 May 2005 17:14:07 +0000

I must agree with you there but different horses for different courses. I can only recall of one other blog place thingey and that is

I don't know if it still exists but it used to be pretty decent.

Rob

karriston — Mon, 30 May 2005 16:28:09 +0000

Uh, I'd rather not use MSN, it looks kinda unprofessional

Timewell — Mon, 30 May 2005 16:14:02 +0000

If you are wanting to get started quickly, with no hassle in designing anything then I believe that MSN will give you a "space" which you can then use as a blog.

For more information go to

http://spaces.msn.com/

Kind regards,

Rob

Assassin — Sat, 28 May 2005 06:59:25 +0000

I think that a blog is defined as an over-rated medium that tries to make a forum with thread starting and replying disabled for everyone except the admin sound fancy... (some will allow comments so you have to go through the work of enabling replies...)

AyntRyte — Sat, 28 May 2005 01:15:49 +0000

I think most would agree with me that for the best options, versatility and no-fuss operation, the most popular blog packages run best on an Apache server with mysql database. If you're on a (@#$%) Windows server or unsure, Blogger would be you best option. You can run a Blogger account on their server or you can remote-host it on your web site (basically, you would just be using their db and interface.) Here's an example of a Blogger account I intergrated into a site on a (@#$%) Windows server.

Roo — Sat, 28 May 2005 01:00:28 +0000

pMachine Pro

Free. Easy to install and customize, and you can easily make a full CMS from it.

Busy — Fri, 27 May 2005 22:20:44 +0000

Another thing would be an audience, someone to egg you on for the 'next exciting entry ...'

Megan — Fri, 27 May 2005 19:01:28 +0000

First you need a script to run your blog. Some popular ones are at blogger.com, wordpress.org, and moveabletype. I'm sure others will pop up with their favourites. That's basically all you need. Once you get the script set up and running you're ready to go. Blogger.com is hosted on their site, but for the others you'll need a domain name and hosting service with scriptiing (usually PHP) and database functionality.

Of course, you also need some thoughts to write down, and some time to write them. It's nice to have some other bloggers or sites to write about and link to.

Ummm... really, that's about it. Of course there are always add-ons like custom design templates, photo galleries, things like that.