In my view, there is only one truly great piece of blogging software on the internet. But it is not always the best for all people, there are sometimes alternatives whilst not the best for the masses, are better for distinct niches?
So what attributes make up the best blogging software on the market? I believe that it has to:
* Be free to use – there are so many paid for blogging tools about, why pay for software?
* Be flexible and extendible – if you want to add a feature to it, such as site maps, captcha checked contact forms, this must be easy to do.
* Be easy to set-up and install.
* Be easy to make it look different to other blogs – there is no point in running a professional blog that looks like 3,000,000 other blogs.
* Have ready made (and free) off-the-shelf styles readily available to install at the touch of a button.
* Be well search engine optimised and accepted by the search engines.
* Ideally, it should have a community of other bloggers that can also drift over to your new blog from related blogs.
