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Blog Hosting: most sites offer both a free and a fee-based premium service.
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"Blogger is a web-based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly -- whenever the urge strikes."
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"Blog*Spot is the turn-key hosting service for BloggerT, the leading personal publishing tool on the web."
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"DeadJournal.com is a journal site (much like LiveJournal), but as you will quickly see, not all journals are apple pie and fruitcakes. Here is where you find the journals that nobody else wants to see, or even host."
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"DiaryLand is a place where you can get your own online diary, that you can update super-easily just using your web browser!"
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"Diary-x has been designed from the ground up to bring you the tools you need to write without worrying about the mundane details of HTML."
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"Easyjournal is a free, easy-to-use web service for keeping a journal online."
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"LiveJournal.com is a free service that allows you to create and customize your very own "live journal": a journal that you keep online!"
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"Pitas.com is now offering free and easy to update pages with an easy-to-use web interface."
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"It provides a free, easy-to-use hosted blog with an abundance of features including email alerts and an easy-to-remember url for your blog."
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"Easy to use, tons of templates, comprehensive tutorials, Upsaid is the free webloging tool you've been looking for"
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"Building a Xanga Site is easy, but the real fun of publishing comes from knowing that you have readers! That's why we've baked a whole set of interactive features right into our publishing platform."
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Blogging Tools: Open-source or no-cost
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"Internet Explorer 6 has fabulous XML and text editing capabilities that are grossly underutilized by most people. The Adminimizer Toolbar makes it easy for you to take advantage of them when updating your Blogger, Radio Userland, or Movable Type blog. All you need to do is install the Toolbar in your browser, make some easy modifications to your blog template, and copy an XML file onto your site. You'll be ready to edit in no time!"
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"BlogWorks XML is an ASP blogging application that provides a simple and easy way to publish your own blog or journal." |
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Free tools includes A PHP implementation of the Blogger XML-RPC API and a client which allows you to post to a Blogger.com-based web log from a Palm/WinCE handheld running AvantGo.
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"Geeklog is a weblog powered by PHP and MySQL. It allows you within minutes to set up a fully functioning dynamic website, and has many features to get you started."
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"Greymatter is the original opensource weblogging and journal software. With fully-integrated comments, searching, file uploading and image handling, completely customisable output through dozens of templates and variables, multiple author support, and many other features..."
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"Movable Type is a decentralized web-based personal publishing system designed to ease maintenance of regularly-updated content. This content can consist of, but is not limited to, entries in a weblog or online journal, photographs in an online photo gallery, news headlines on a newspaper site, or articles in an online magazine."
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Provides content management and syndication services. "We pledge to continually develop our product and release regular feature upgrades. Our ultimate aim is to go beyond blogging. We want to create an entire website portal system which can be added to any HTML page through a single line of code!"
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Freeware content management that runs on windows. "The w.bloggar is an application that targets to be an interface between the user and his blog(s), in other words, is a Post and Template editor, with serveral features and resources that the browser based blog editors can not offer."
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Blogging Tools: Software Products
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"Radio UserLand is an easy-to-use Weblog tool that runs on your desktop, so it's fast, and ready to go when you are. Radio UserLand automatically builds your site, organizes and archives your posts, and publishes your content -- without any knowledge of HTML, FTP, or graphic design."
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Blogging Tools: Comments and Tracking Software
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"Track your total hits, unique visitors per day, and projected daily unique visitors based on activity within the previous 60 minutes."
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"backBlog is a feedback system for bloggers and web page owners. It allows you to receive feedback from readers for entries you write in your blog or web page. backBlog has two versions: backBlogBasic - which is free - and backBlogPro - which offers enhanced features"
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Free service: "With the eXTReMe Tracker you get every advanced feature required to picture the visitors of your website. Conveniently arranged, numbers, percentages, stats, totals and averages. All the way up from simple counting your visitors until tracking the keywords they use to find you."
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"Your free, preposterously easy instant discussion space"
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"DAS is a free tracking system that logs extremely useful information such as hits, uniques, browser name & version, operating systems, screen resolutions, and http referrers."
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"Site Meter is a free, fast, and easy way to add a web counter to your web page. Not only does it display the number of visitors to your web site, it also keeps statistics on the number of visits each hour and each day. "
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"Cosmos allows you to find what's new in the blogging universe, and find out who's linking to whom. Simply type in a URL of a blog, website, or interesting article on the web, and Cosmos will tell you which bloggers are linking to the URL."
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"YACCS is a free service that allows you to place a comments section on your weblog."
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"Yinga give you the ability to check how many visitors come to your website daily and monthly, as well as where are they coming from."
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Blogging Templates and Skins
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A nice assortment of blogging templates as well as some html and Blog*Spot tutorials.
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"For designers, this is a great resource to use for your weblog templates - send your users here to give them info on implementing the templates without having to have all of the info on your page."
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"Take the designs from some of the best people around the blogging community, and instantly and easily apply them to your own Blogger-powered site."
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"There are currently 38 different PageKits (free web templates) available on this site."
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Collection of free templates. Requires a link back to the site.
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A wide assortment of templates free for non-commercial sites.
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A wide assortment of templates free for non-commercial sites.
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