Best and/or easiest blog creator?

[hudson]

Thinking a teeny bit about doing a blog (about computer music making). Before I commit to choosing an online blog creator or blogging software, I thought I would ask on here, to get some impressions of the different blog creation tools available.

Cheers.

[^Katsu]

Depends on what you want to do with it all really? Tumblr is by far the easiest I have used personally, but I prefer Google Blogs on the whole?
Generally people I know who started blogging seriously started on Google and moved onto wordpress at a later date.

I have not done anything with either for a long time now, but the stuff I set up has been at work still.

http://katsujinken-x.blogspot.com/

http://katsujinken.tumblr.com/

[Dogg Thang]

I can definitely vouch for the ease of Blogger - that's the Google one I think. Can be set up in minutes and off you go. I only ever ran into difficulty when I wanted to get really specific about how I wanted it laid out. Easy to set up and easy to use.

[abigsmurf]

I'm currently creating a site using drupal. It's an incredibly powerful piece of software but it's still good if you're not a coder.

Wordpress is decent too

[NekoFever]

I'm a big fan of WordPress. You can host your own install from here, or a free hosted one here. Very easy to use and flexible.

3.0 just came out the other day so there's a lot of activity in the community if you need help.

[egparadigm]

In terms of aesthetics, I found Wordpress a vast improvement on Blogspot (Google)/Tumblr. Some really nice, clean and simple themes.

[hudson]

I'm no coder. Although, I do know some basic html. I'm looking for something that can be easily maintain in a sort of WYSIWYG way. Are WordPress and drupal easy to use?

Also, are any of these blogs free of developer/ad logos?

I have my own web space.

Thanks for the ideas so far, fellas. I'll check them all out.

[abigsmurf]

You don't need to know how to code for either wordpress or drupal. Wordpress is probably easier to get to grips with though as Drupal has a lot of developer heavy features.

You'll need to get to grips with the basics of CSS though (you can just use a template without tinkering but... it'll look like you've just used a template). It's pretty easy, especially if you customise an existing one.

Make sure your hosts give you PHP and MYSQL (only need one database)

[NekoFever]

You don't need CSS to make a WordPress theme. You can do it in badly written table-based HTML 4 from 1998 and it'll still work fine.

No forced ads or anything like that from either WordPress or Drupal. They're both free, open-source projects.

[egparadigm]

This popped up today:

http://lifehacker.com/5568092/five-best-blogging-platforms

[hudson]

This popped up today:

http://lifehacker.com/5568092/five-b...ging-platforms

Great stuff. Thanks everyone.

[smouty]

Another vote for wordpress. Very easy to setup and use.
Vast amounts of themes and plugins to tailor it to meet virtually any requirement.