Choosing the right cms for your blog is crucial because it sets the tone of how you work and the level of flexibility available on that cms, be very careful while choosing a cms if you aren’t sure just go with the most popular one because that way even if you don’t get how it works theres a huge support community ready to help you out!
Here are the top blogging platforms available!
Wordpress
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
Movabletype
It’s easier than ever to publish and share information with Movable Type. With more than 50 new features, MT4 makes it simple to start a blog, manage entire websites and build an engaged community of readers and customers.
b2evolution
A blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs
Nucleas
A powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets.- Mambo or Joomla
These are two of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
But if you don’t want to host the blog yourself you can always choose a free blog hosting service such as:
- Wordpress
Wordpress with its famous blogging platform also offers free hosted blogs that you can use to blog with tons of plugins and themes available you can’t go wrong with this! 
MSN Live Spaces
Live spaces is a great free blog hosting service offered by msn with tons of great profile features and a powerful blogging platform.
Blogger
Blogger is a free blog hosting service provided by google with some great profile features and a powerful and safe blogging platform.
Vox
Blogging is fun again. With powerful privacy controls and hundreds of beautiful designs, Vox is a great place to build your online neighborhood. Add seamless integration with popular web services like Flickr and YouTube, and we think you’ll agree that…
Blogates
Blogates is a free, web-based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly — whenever the urge strikes. Blogates is an upcoming hosted service providing powerful tools for creating full-featured weblogs. Built in response to the needs of webloggers, online diarists and writers.
Aeonity
Aeonity Blog is a Free Blog Hosting Community where you may publish information instantly on your website and customize your blog to fit your personality. It basically works like an online journal, diary, weblog, or notepad and requires little or no technical background to update and maintain.
February 8th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
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February 9th, 2008 at 1:41 am
No doubt there are a lot of platforms available. I have used Blogger, Moveable Type and Joomla in the past. I have standardized on using WordPress over the last year. I think they have a much better blogging platform with a HUGE community that helps users.
I have not heard of some of these other ones. I will have to take a look.
February 9th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Don’t forget Expression Engine too which has a free – if limited – product you can self-host.
I am not sure of the benefits of it over WP though…
February 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
WordPress is not a CMS, its a Blog. Its a different issue that it is flexible enough to be used as a CMS. It is pretty flexible. Its works fine for sites that are maintained by few people and focuses mostly on content. But by default it is meant to work like a blog.
February 9th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Lots of CMS to choose from but my favorite is wordpress. But I have to admit I never tried using the others because it seems so complicated.
February 9th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Nucleus is a great CMS, I like it. I use it for a few personal things that I do. Otherwise, I use Wordpress to blog for the most part.
Wordpress is a great blog application, Drupal and Nucleus are both great CMS’s.
February 9th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I like blogger the best as their templates are nice and customizable as you can add in your own pictures. Also the adsense compatibility is golden. Now that I have domain names if I still blogged I would use my domain name with blogger.
February 9th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Hmm, to be honest, I haven’t heard of many of those platforms that will host your blog for you. I’ve heard of the top three only, but I don’t consider Windows Live Spaces to be blog software, it’s more of a platform for a personal site for your friends. But it looks like I’m going to have to check out the other three that I haven’t heard of, as they sound like good platforms. Thanks!
-Commes
February 10th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Thanks for going over the various blogging and CMS scripts. There are also others by independant script writers that one can find on Hotscripts.com. Most don’t have the bells and whistles, but might be good if you just want a small blog just to post some thoughts.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Thanks for the list, this is great. I have only heard of a few in there, for example Wordpress and Joomla. I am currently using Joomla, but having a few problems with my host. I’ll definitely check out some of these others.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Community is very important thing. Wordpress has really great community, but it has also many other features which give huge benefits when you use them.
I’ve heard about most of the platforms and if anyone would like to start blogging I would recommend Wordpress.
Of course if you have your own webhosting it’s a good idea to put it there, because it gives you more control and more possibilities. But if you don’t like technical issues you should create a blog on Wordperss site.
February 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I manage a couple of websites and online communities myself and I’m a big fan of Joomla, Textpattern and Wordpress. I’m also the product manager of http://i.ph which is a free blogging provider built around WP, adding granulated privacy controls as well as a point and click drag and drop GUI for easy design and customization.
I haven’t heard of the last 2 on your list. I’ll be sure to give it a look see. Thanks for a good read! Blog on!
February 11th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Wordpress has many features.
and i think wordpress is not a cms?
i think wordpress is like a blogging website or something.
i think wordpress and joomla are not the same?
thanks for posting btw.
February 12th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
When it comes to using a CMS/Blog I will usually use Wordpress/Website Baker/Joomla.
All three are very powerful packages, but I would normally go for Wordpress/Joomla.
July 12th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Very useful information. Thanks for this. You got a great blog .I will be interested in more similar topics.I’m very interested in CMS and all its related subjects.
October 6th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
My current site is on wordpress. See my name for the site link. Should I change to these other alternatives? What are the pros and cons of doing so?
January 6th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
What a wonderful source of information!