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.

Blogs are becoming more popular nowadays. You will notice that the numbers of blogging sites are increasing. In addition, there are innovations already making its way into blogging.

For instance, instead of pure text content, there is now photo blogging where you can now share your pictures with other bloggers. Aside from the usual call and text features of cellular phones, now you can use it if you want to post your blog. It just manifests that blogging is really becoming popular to people.

If you are not reached yet by the popularity of blogs, continue reading and see for yourself why blogging is just popular to almost every Internet users.

What is Blog?

Before anything else, what is a blog? Generally, it is a web page that has brief and distinct information also known as posts. These posts are arranged in reverse chronological order (that is, the latest comes first) and each post entry is identified by an anchor tag which is marked by a permanent link that can be referred to by others who wish to link to it.

Blogs are considered to be a means of communication and there are numerous types of messages carried by blogs. Some you will find are just vacuums that points to other websites, others displays their greatest essay, some are personal diaries, and others promote newest technology. In other words, bloggers can write anything they want.

Why Blog?

There are hundreds of thousands of blogs posted on the Internet daily. With these numbers, one question will just pop-up in your mind: Why do people blog?

The reason behind is through blogs, people can express themselves freely. Yes, there are other mediums you can use to show to the world what you have got. You can write articles and columns on a local newspaper. But the question is, are you sure all what you have written can be printed? Writing blogs gives you the power to get what you have written printed immediately. No questions asked, nothing more to be asked.

Another reason why many people are blogging is the freedom of design, layout, and its structure. You do not need to have navigation architecture designs of a website nor a structured menu. You can write anything about what you want regardless of what it looks like. Your point is to attract readers in the way that you think is the best. That is the power of blogging—giving you the freedom of what you want your blog to look like.

Before you start your blogging hobby, you need to know first the blogging tools. These tools enable you to post your blogs either on your own website or to a certain blogging community. One popular blogging tool is Blogger software, a web-based tool that does not require you to install software to your personal computer or on your server in case you have your own website. You can access the tool through the Blogger website and your blog pages can be posted to your own site or to a community blog server.

These are just some of the basic things you need to know about blogging. Remember that blogs give you the power to publish anything you want. However, you need to keep in mind that it can be successful if you will be discussing interesting things on it. And do not forget to place a link directing to your own website. It can help you generate the traffic you needed.