Reviews of Popular Blogging Platforms (Series) | Part 1: Blogger

A blogging platform is simply the blogging application you choose to use.Choosing the best suitable blogging platform is the first door to enter blogosphere. The right decision will depend mostly on your needs. First, we’ll reviews one of the famous user’s choice, Blogger.

Cost: Free

Time to launch: 10 minutes

Blogger is one of the oldest blogging platforms. Acquire by Google in 1999, Blogger keeps its platform to be free. Today, Blogger maintain its position as one of the biggest blogging hosting. Blogger has millions of users.

Using Blogger is easy. You will be blogging within 10 minutes by coming to the site. The interface is about the simplest one around. By becoming free, its features are so impressive though.

To the beginner blogger, Blogger does provide some attractive skins to choose from. One unusual feature of Blogger is the integration with the Audioblogger service. Program the Audioblogger number into your phone, and you can put audio recordings on your blog quickly by simply calling the number and recording yourself. This offering is unique among blog software packages.

However, intermediate and advance blogger would not choose Blogger as their first choice. Blogger doesn’t make customization easy. One of the biggest holes in Blogger’s offerings is the lack of post categorization, followed closely by the need to know HTML and Cascading Style Sheets to make custom changes to the templates provided.

But, of special note is that Blogger does allow you to FTP the files generated for your blog to your own Web site. Used together with customization of the Blogger template, this fairly unique functionality means that your readers may never realize that you are using Blogger. It also means that you can publicize your own domain name, rather than the more usual Blogger URL: blogname.blogspot.com.

Blogger is perfect for the future blogger who’s in a hurry and less than interested in design customization. If your priority is to start blogging now, you can’t do better than Blogger. Clearly, it’s also a great tool for those on a budget, since there are absolutely no costs. In fact, you need not even have a Web site or a domain name, so you can literally get started using Blogger without spending a penny.

Very few professional Bloggers stick with Blogger for very long, if they even start there. Because it is so simple, and perhaps because it is free, most professional bloggers choose to use blogging software that has more prestige (read: is harder to set up and install). However, it is an ideal tool to use when first beginning, especially if you want to test blog for a couple of weeks before devoting any serious time or money to a blog.

At last, choosing a blogging platform is worth to take a consideration. Blogger may come to the list.

You can take a look at my blogger blog at http://loveureka.blogspot.com