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Can you recommend a good free blogging site - thanks

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judderman62
judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite
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Hi All

am thinking of starting a blog - but would only want my brothers n sister to be able to read it. Is this possible ? If so can anyone recommend a FREE , easy to use site that I could use.

I have never blogged before so the easier to use and more secure the better. If it was well featured that'd be a good bnus bu afore mentioned factors are most important.

thanks

Judders
Hate and I do mean Hate my apple Mac Computer - wish I'd never bought the thing
Do little and often
Please stop using the word "of" when you actually mean "have" - it's damned annoying :mad:

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  • poocano78
    poocano78 Posts: 74 Forumite
    http://www.20six.co.uk/ looks like it might be worth a look
  • judderman62
    judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite
    thanks for that - sadly fails miserably on the easy to sue front.

    look forward to more suggestions

    thanks in advance
    Hate and I do mean Hate my apple Mac Computer - wish I'd never bought the thing
    Do little and often
    Please stop using the word "of" when you actually mean "have" - it's damned annoying :mad:
  • weegie.geek
    weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite
    judderman62 wrote: »
    thanks for that - sadly fails miserably on the easy to sue front.

    I'm not sure any company would advertise the fact that they're easy to sue! ;)


    http://www.livejournal.com/

    You can set it so only your friends can read it, so get them to open accounts and set each other as friends.

    It's a very popular site, so I'm assuming it's easy to use. Never used it personally.
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    They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it
  • judderman62
    judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite
    ha ha I really should spell check shouldn't I Doh !!

    have had a look at blogger and that looks pretty cool n easy to use - doesn't look like you can embed youtube clips sadly (unless I just haven't found a way yet) but I think I'm gonna run with it .

    Thanks for the pointers mate :beer:
    Hate and I do mean Hate my apple Mac Computer - wish I'd never bought the thing
    Do little and often
    Please stop using the word "of" when you actually mean "have" - it's damned annoying :mad:
  • weegie.geek
    weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite
    No probs. :)
    They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it
  • judderman62
    judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite
    OK you can embed you tube just done it.

    seems the two biggies are Blogger n wordpress so will play with both - blogger seems easier to me up to now
    Hate and I do mean Hate my apple Mac Computer - wish I'd never bought the thing
    Do little and often
    Please stop using the word "of" when you actually mean "have" - it's damned annoying :mad:
  • liquidlives
    liquidlives Posts: 239 Forumite
    I use Blogger and Livejournal; the good thing about Blogger is that you can set up more than one blog with the same account if you wanted to do that, yet the privacy you can set up with Livejournal is certainly something to consider. If you get the people you want to be able to read it to set up accounts too, you can set all your posts to friends-only. You can also join communities and post in them, and you can view RSS feeds on your friends page as well as journal entries from your LJ friends (my personal favourites are the Dilbert comic and BBC Technology News).
  • judderman62
    judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite
    thanks for that - I like dilbert too lol

    I have gone with wordpress and liking it so far
    Hate and I do mean Hate my apple Mac Computer - wish I'd never bought the thing
    Do little and often
    Please stop using the word "of" when you actually mean "have" - it's damned annoying :mad:
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