What blogging method do you use?

[bhutz]

I have been out searching the net with the intention of starting my own personal blog.
I have found a few different companies but would like to gain some feedback from people on this site to get some experienced opinions.

So far I have bumped into this lot and my first impressions are shown too, basically I want to be able to customise it so it doesn't look like a basic template and also include a photo gallery. Are there any other useful features I might want to look out for when using a blog for personal use?

Blogspot (http://www.blogspot.com)
At first it appears basic but being able to customise the templates could be great...I have customised my vBulletin board and have some experience using CSS so I think this may have the level of customisation I am after :D

movabletype (http://www.movabletype.org/)
Just download the software so will be installing this later on. Although from what I have read it also appears to have a high level of customisation

Live journal (http://www.livejournal.com/)
This doesn't look at all good for a blog, but if you know of a good example then please say because I may be wrong

[digitalpoint]

Blogger (blogspot) and Movable Type are both good. For me, I use Blogger because I don't need some of the advanced functions of MT (like classifying individual posts).

[nacho45]

I use blogger...no problems so far...and as an added bonus...if you have the google toolbar, you can blog link any page just by clicking that icon

[anthonycea]

Great subject, SQUARESPACE.COM is one of the up and coming ASP's, the programmer is a 21 year old kid that is setting the Blog world on fire.

I think he will be doing (just a guess) about 10 Million a month real soon.

Young and smart like someone else we know who is a great coder and programmer, anyone know his name?

[dazzlindonna]

Wordpress is one I am just starting out with. (I have another one that is coldfusion based, but it's not exactly one of the standard ones out there). Anyway, so far, I like Wordpress.

[anthonycea]

Sun Microsystems just came out with a platform to support the following open source program.

Look for big things to happen with this.

http://www.rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RollerUsers

[Such Great Heights]

I use Blogger, and on my own domain.
Been using it since 2000.
It's easy, quick enough, and has good options.
Plus now that it's owned by Google I got an invite to GMail because I've been a long time user. So maybe Google will do this more often as they come out with new features/ventures. :)

[TwisterMc]

Blogger is much more than it appears.
It can be basic : pick a templage and blog away.
Or complex : create your own design, host it anywhere, add your own ads, images, links or whatever you want.

[mopacfan]

Once I got the ftp issues resolved, I ended up with blogger and it works well for what I need.

[bhutz]

I am starting to think that Blogger is definitely the one, except to see a link to my blog very soon ;)

Thanks for the input so far peeps

[anthonycea]

More on open source blogging from SUN in the article below.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5330784.html?tag=zdnn.alert

[piniyini]

I've only used Blogger and am satisfied with everything it offers, the main reason I think it's decent is because it allows me to blog from anywhere, see the following http://toseef-saleem.blogspot.com/2004/08/ive-clocked-it-now-i-can-blog-from.html

Damn I cant post a link untill I have 10 posts! :rolleyes:

[SEbasic]

I use blogger.

I did experiment with a few other options, but that was the easiest to use.

I would love to give MT a try - Seen some lovely blogs using that. (Including the Y! blog)

I also used a ColdFusion blog for a while, but itdrove me nuts (Too many features to f**k up). Incase you are interested, it is called nucleus. Great bit of software though. Loads of really good plugins, rangine from a mod-rewrite alternative, all the way to Uber SEO stuff.

Pretty cool.

[TwisterMc]

MT looks to complex to me. :rolleyes: Installing that is.

[ViciousSummer]

I recently started using blogger and I really like it! Very easy to customize and I was able to insert adsense ads in the right spot on the 1st try :D .

[stephfoster]

I use Blogger too. It's nice and easy. My one disappointment in it was that when they made some recent changes it quit working correctly in Netscape, so I have to open Explorer now to do my posts. Going to have to check one of these days if they've fixed it yet or not.

[adfunk]

i go for geocities because its allowed me to specify the design i need plus i can add my own advertisment to support the development fund.

[GuyFromChicago]

I'm on Blogger, Haven't really checked the other ones out...it seems Blogger has everything I need.

[flawebworks]

wordpress
http://wordpress.org

[TwisterMc]

I can't get that blogger email post option to work.

[TopSpin]

Blogger is great. Customizable (to a point) and it's been pretty easy to setup so far. Twister - did you try changing your settings for Show Email Post links to "Yes" ?

[TwisterMc]

Post email links don't work for mine. I probably edited something out that I wasn't supposed to. I've customized mine a lot.