I'm half way through the Blogging 101 series and I'm considering doing a few video tutorials to enchance the series or perhaps as a follow up in the form of an intermediate series with videos showing more specifics tasks. The Blogging 101 series is basic coverage of blogging fundementals for layman.

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In part one of How To Blog 103, I discussed what a blog is and how a blog differs from a standard or regular web site.

You learned that a blog and a web site are similar because they generally appear to be the same in form. They both allow you put content on the Internet in the form of a web page using HTML and read with a web browser.

But you also learned that blogs are distinctly different from a standard web site in several different ways. You learned about some features that are unique to blogs and make blogs an ideal tool for publishing content to the web.

In this second and final part to How To Blog 103 I'll discuss specific blog software tools, and I will conclud with a link to my growing list ...   more »

Blog Software Resources

Free Blog Publishing Software
WordPress
http://www.wordpress.org
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Blogger
http://www.blogger.com
a blog is your easy-to-use website, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more. All for FREE.

Movable Type
http://www.moveabletype.org
Movable Type is the premiere weblog publishing tool for individuals, organizations, and web developers.

Greymatter
http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft
With fully integrated comments, searching, file uploading and image handling, completely customizable output through dozens of templates and variables, multiple author support, and many other features while having perhaps the simplest installation process and easiest-to-use interface of any program offering this level of functionality.

LiveJournal
http://www.livejournal.com
LiveJournal is a simple-to-use (but extremely powerful and customizable) personal publishing ("blogging") tool, built on open source software.

Xanga
http://www.xanga.com
Xanga is a community of online diaries ...   more »