The Blogger software is very user friendly and best of all free to the user. It has all the features that you need like widget ready and the ability to rearrange the layout with a simple click and drag. There are a dozen or so templates to choose from to give yourself many options.

 There are various widgets to choose from  here a list of them

Slideshow  Add a slideshow of your photos to your blog.

Poll  Survey your visitors by adding a poll to your blog.

List Add a list of your favorite books, movies, or anything you like.

Link List Add a collection of your favorite sites, blogs, or web pages.

Picture Add a picture from your computer or from somewhere else on the web.

AdSense Earn revenue by displaying relevant ads on your blog.

Text Add some words to your blog - like a welcome message - with our rich text editor.

HTML/JavaScript Add third-party functionality or other code to your blog.

Feed Add content from an RSS or Atom feed to your blog.

 Labels Show all the labels of posts in your blog.

Newsreel Automatically add current headlines from Google News to your blog.

Video Bar Display clips from YouTube and Google Video for your readers to watch without leaving the page.

Logo Choose from a variety of Blogger logos to add to your page.

Profile Display information about yourself.

Blog Archive Display links to older posts.

Page Header Display your blog’s title and description.

It also has an edit html section that you can change your page if you happen to know html.

Your blog will also ping after every post. There is also a feature to that allows you to email your blog with articles

to post.

You also can moderate comments you receive from your blog. Blogger has some great features to get yourself a blog up and running in no time.