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Blogging Platforms

These free and low-cost blogging programs pack a lot of features.

Kalpana Ettenson

Monday, January 22, 2007, 04:00 PM PST
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Blogger
Blogger
• Price when rated: Free
• Storage space: 300MB
• Speed and stability: Superior
• Management tools usability: Very Good
• Template quality: Very Good
Vendor's Web Site
This full-featured blog platform offers quick setup, easy customization of templates, and a simple-to-use interface.
(Last Rated: January 22, 2007)
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WordPress
WordPress
• Price when rated: Free
• Storage space: 50MB
• Speed and stability: Very Good
• Management tools usability: Good
• Template quality: Very Good
Vendor's Web Site
WordPress is versatile and highly customizable, though the interface's text-based buttons might confuse inexperienced users.
(Last Rated: January 22, 2007)
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3
TypePad
TypePad
• Price when rated: $5 per month
• Storage space: 100MB
• Speed and stability: Superior
• Management tools usability: Good
• Template quality: Very Good
Vendor's Web Site
TypePad's clean design makes it easy to work with, but its inability to create static pages limits its usefulness.
(Last Rated: January 22, 2007)
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Tripod
Tripod
• Price when rated: $9 per month
• Storage space: 20MB
• Speed and stability: Fair
• Management tools usability: Fair
• Template quality: Fair
Vendor's Web Site
Though Tripod offers plenty of customizable templates and the ability to generate nice-looking photo galleries, its pages load much too slowly.
(Last Rated: January 22, 2007)
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Squarespace
Squarespace
• Price when rated: $7 per month
• Storage space: 100MB
• Speed and stability: Fair
• Management tools usability: Fair
• Template quality: Good
Vendor's Web Site
Squarespace provides highly configurable blog pages, but you'll have to figure out the program's unintuitive drag-and-drop module system.
(Last Rated: January 22, 2007)
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