There are a lot of blogging tools and blogging services on the internet. The learning of the free blogging tools is the good idea for you. They will change your blog to the new looking and more interesting. If you decide to use these tools, you should be plan about the benefits of them. You can use a lot of the free blogging tools in your blog but it does not mean that you want them.
The common tool is the visitor counter. It will track the number of the visitors, the keywords on your blog and more statistics about the visitors. You will using the search engine to find the free visitor counters on the internet.
The other tools such as media player, special effect and flash should be used if you have assessing what tools will help you realize the looking and increasing the traffic. But you should known that the free tools may not be used in the long run.
The basic factors for build the blog are the platform, the web hosting and the domain name. These factors are discussed here.
1. The platform
The software program which is the main program for control and organize your blog such as blogger and wordpress. There are many functions that you should to realize such as write the posts, update blog, blog theme, font style (CSS style) and more.
2. The web hosting
This is the data storage for your blog. You will communicating with the web hosting when you upload the pictures, edit the post and more. There is the free web hosting for your blog with the free blogging service. But they will limit some features of the service such as the bandwidth, data storage space, database function and some scripts (PHP, Email, Cron job, etc…). If your blog have a lot of traffics, you should pay for the web hosting service to get the more benefits. The cost is varying from 1.00 to 100.00+ per month.
3. The domain name
This is the online address of your blog. You can get the own domain name by registering with the domain registrar. Or you can get the free domain name with some blogging service website as blogger and wordpress. But you will get the subdomain with this service.
For blogger: you will get “yourdomain.blogspot.com”
For wordpress: you will get “yourdomain.wordpress.com”