You can get a decent host for Wordpress for as little as $2.50 P/M though. The custom plug-ins etc on WP are fantastic. Aff <--- WP devotee!
Blogger man myself, but I can't say how much worse or better the others are. I like the fact picture hosting is free and unlimited and the template is easily modified.
Yep. I'm a blogger man too! I love the way you can set it up pretty much how you want it. Just takes a bit of coding knowledge to do it.
I used www.blogspot.com As far as i have heard, it's owned by google I didn't need any more reason to start blogging on it.
Thanks everyone for your views and suggestions, il be sure to check them out, so far i am quite pleased with using blogger already but its always worth checking the others out too. Great help, thank ladies and gents
Honestly it is hard to imagine depending on a third party service or putting my content on someone else’s domain. Don’t you want that fresh content attached to your domain? Of the free hosted solutions I’ve found that I get higher listings in Google and more participation from my Live Journal accounts than anything that I ever put on Blogger. Richard
Affers Hehe richardevanslee, thats a very good point, its definately something i need to take into account.
Wordpress gives you awesome control over the template- provided you know HTML and CSS, and make your own :-p My personal best is Wordpress hosted on your own, followed by Blogger.
I set up my Wordpress blog relatively painlessly in a few hours. Before I did that, I had never even used FTP before. The plugins are simply awesome and once you have it up it seems to run effortlessly. I'm still working on my design a bit (the header is boring as hell and my buttons don't work ) but I'll have it ironed out this weekend. Be all end all: It's my opinion that hosting your own WP blog is the way to go for total control over design, content, etc.