Yes, you can get free Blogs at WordPress or Blogger but there’s surely no faster way to get a free blog than Posterous and it requires no setup whatsoever. Simply Email your post, with whatever attachment you want to include in the post (image, video, music) and they will email you the link to your new posterous blog address. Keep emailing them and the new posts will be added to your blog. The resulting blog even looks pretty decent.
Link
WordPress 2.9 will have a built in image editor that will allow you to crop, resize, and rotate images from your blog editor.
Link
If you want people to contact you from your blog but don’t want your email address revealed, this plugin will do the job. Cforms II allows you to create all kinds of forms like newsletter subscription forms, tell-a-friend form, online booking forms, sign-up forms, and more.
With the WordPress e-Commerce plugin you can turn WordPress into a full featured online store. With thousands of installs the e-commerce plugin is robust and field tested. The basic plugin is free with additional modules available for a fee but with just the basic plugin you have all you need to get up and running.
Link
Jumpstart is a sophisticated free online website planner. Among other things, it allows you to export your online website outline to a WordPress blog.
From the site:
Use Jumpchart to quickly plan out the navigation of your site by adding pages, and sub-pages. If you change your mind, easily drag pages to new spots within the site hierarchy. There is no better way to organize the content for your website.
Link
Most blogs have decent posting interfaces but if you want to write blog posts offline or in something more like a wordprocessor there are quite a few excellent free options.
A freeware offline blog editor with lots of features and support for many blog platforms. Images can be directly inserted and are automatically uploaded. With the ImageWizard you can not only insert images to your posts – it’s possible to edit them as well (crop, resize, rotate, shadow etc)
Links can be easily inserted and edited. If you link to local files (such as MP3 or PDF), BlogDesk will automatically upload them. You can even publish simultaneously to multiple blogs with one click.
Link
Similar to Blogdesk but has a few unique features. This blog editor allows you to use a flickr account to store your photos. It also offers live spell checking as well as the ability to post directly from MS Word.
Last but not least is my personal favourite, Live Writer, the free offline blog post editor from Microsoft. Perhaps the slickest of the three, it has quite a few nice features and supports plugins, of which there are many. My favourite is the Snagit screen capture plugin which makes it a breeze to add a screen capture which will then be automatically uploaded to the blog when you publish the post.
A new feature in the latest version is the ability to insert a video from your computer and have it automatically published to YouTube when you publish the post.
Link
The PhotoDropper plugin lest’s you easily and quickly add free photos to your WordPress Blog posts with 1-click! Once you enter a keyword for a photo “Photo Dropper Browse Photos” menu it will show you all the available photos matching that keyword, then all you have to do is select the size you want and the image will appear in your post along with links to the original site and license.
There is an option to use only commercially available photos if your site is a business.
The amount of Creative Commons images uploaded to Flickr daily is astonishing so this tool will become more valuable by the hour.
Starting a website is just the first step and probably the easiest. Now you need visitors, this is the hard part.
Here’s a very good article covering some of the best ways to get traffic to your site. There are no quick ways to get and keep visitors but by following as many of the tips in this article you will be off to a good start.
A chance popular posting to a social networking site could bring hundreds of visitors in a few days, but to build up a good stream of regulars can easily take a year or more so be sure to love what you blog about.
Link
If you enjoyed the post, make sure you subscribe to the RSS feed.
© 2008 TypeBased. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by WordPress. Design by 
