The very first thing that comes into mind when you need to start a blog that which Blog Platform would be most suitable for you. Here i would try to explain the whole thing in a precisely and concisely manner.
Blogging for Beginners or Amature Blogging ?
If you are not very familiar to what blogging is and How can you setup a blog in a day or just want to blog for your own pleasure and don’t seek to make any money or taking it as a profession then you can consider either to get started with Google’s Blogger.com the most widely used Blogging platform and Alternatively that i prefer you can setup a blog at WordPress.com both of these services are free. Even if you want to adopt blogging as profession sometime in the future, you should consider starting by any of these two services, there are too many others however i here wanted to be concise so that it does not waste readers time and therefore have choosen two of the best and most popular blogging platforms.
When you start to use any of these two services, you would become familiar to the blogging and with these free services, you can learn to develop your writing skills and find a niche for your blog that best suits you.
I started off blogging by setting my first blog at Blogger then moved to WordPress.com because of the flexibility if offers to the users of its service. Therefore I would recommend WordPress.com to Blogger.com because in the long run it would also help you get familiar with WordPress Application in case you want to start your own blog with your own domain hosted by a paid Web hosting Service provider. In coming days I will cover Which Web Host and Platform you should use for self-hosted blogs and will update the link here.
So Here you can learn about Choosing a Web Hosting service for self-hosted Blogs