Start your own Weblog.

Weblogs have become extremely popular since 2005. The BlogBank directory is a collection of links to sites that provide some type of forum, blog or content management system for Free. A blog is usually considered to be a personal web space, but the services included make them suitable to use for business purposes. RSS feeds can distribute content to a broad audience. Personal blog reading services like My MSN and My Yahoo do not allow you to publish content or create RSS feeds but sites like Blogger offer everything. You can setup a blogger account to create pages in a word style text editor online that are saved to your own server.

Most business websites can benefit by having an area to publish content that changes often. One of the options is to install a full content management system but this requires considerable knowledge to set-up, customise and maintain. A professional result can be achieved using a weblog that provides the capabilities required without all of the hassles with managing a CMS.

Bloglines and news is free are similar sites with RSS feed services with the ability to publish your own content or create RSS feeds. Bloglines navigation bar has links to allow you to add feeds to to your blog or you can add links to RSS feeds manually. Compare the differences between several blogs and test them to decide which best suits your needs. Personally I prefer Blogger (operated by Google) because it is very user friendly and easy to customise. This is the only blogging system I know of that can save the weblog pages created to another location.

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There is no better or best blogging solution but a little research will reveal that there is a free solution available to suit any purpose. The BlogBank Directory is a good place to start looking with links to weblogs as well as everything else a webmaster will ever need. To smarten up your weblog or web site we have 85 web banners you can download for free.