WordPress

=WordPress=

[|WordPress] is a free blogging tool that allows users to quickly write, produce, and post blogs.

Features :
WordPress provides the user with a variety of options, including: >
 * A complete text editor
 * Support of emoticons
 * Support for XHTML
 * Support for IRC chats
 * Customizable themes and color schemes
 * Customizable blogroll

Operation :
WordPress runs both server-side (as a java applet), or desktop-side. It's pretty easy to sign up for a free blog account. It may take 30 minutes or so to get an email with your information. Once you sign up, you must use your blog within two days or you have to sign up again.

If you want to do fancy stuff and use WordPress as a publisher, you must get a web host. WordPress helps you with this by providing a few names of hosts that work well with their site.

Cost :
If you are just a blogger who needs to use only free-provided items for your blog decoration, it's free. But if you want to use it for somewhat unique and specialized pages, you'd have to pay depending on what you items you want. This profit gaining system is the same as that of Cyworld.nate.com in South Korea. if you just want to upload items such as mp3s and photos from friends and family, you don't need to pay.

Impression :
The first thought I got in WordPress.com was that it was a visually gorgeous text editor. But when I looked at it further, it became a laptop that I use. Yeah, that's why Bernie, my professor, told me that it is what cool kids use to make their own blog. There are lot's of tutorials to decorate your blog. You might think of WordPress as only a means of decoration, but there is a Spam report system !! Maybe WordPress.com doesn't want to be shown as one of the many blog providers and I totally agree that it is successful for that. Well, I will try this interesting system more by using my own blog in there.