In How To Blog 102 , the previous installment of this series you learned some basic essentials for planning your blog.

You learned about a few different types of bloggers plus different types of blogging styles. You learned a few pros and cons as well about the blog I.R.S factors.

I want to now discuss how to choose the right blog software tools for your blogging efforts. This lesson will be a two-part lesson because I want to cover some features that set blogs apart for regular web sites. Then I'll cover the remaining topic of evaluating blog software tools.

Blog Software Defined
Blog software is any software that allows you to blog. Now that may a bit like over stating the obvious but let's examine this for a minute. There are certainly characteristics that are unique to blogs and some features that some would ...   more »