Your Blog Guide

WordPress is a good option for anyone looking to host a blog on their own domain.

WordPress.com offers versatile and free blog hosting on its own servers, or you can install its open-source code software on your own server. WordPress will let you host a blog on its domain (yourblog.WordPress.com) or use a domain or subdomain (blog.mycompany.com), but currently you cannot add a blog as a subdirectory (mycompany.com/blog).

The service offers more than 50 high-quality templates, and also makes design changes to those templates simple. It’s easy to upload a custom header image, and you can choose from a small selection of sidebar widgets to drag and drop onto your blog design. The widgets are limited, however, to items approved by WordPress.com, meaning you can’t embed third-party JavaScript-based widgets or news feeds.

For a more detailed review of WordPress click here.