Free Blog: WordPress

Wordpress is the most popular free blog software. It is open source so people continue to improve and develop addons for it.

Install WordPress

The easiest way to set up WordPress on your own hosting server is:

Sign up for a hosting server with Fantastico (which is a tool that does automatic Wordpress installation) like Hostgator.
Install Wordpress via Fantastico (extremely easy from the server's control panel) and your blog is ready!
You may also decide to give your blog a unique and professional look by purchasing, customizing and installing a WordPress template.
You will then need to add content in your blog.

You might want to enhance your blog by installing some blog addons that provide your blog with added functionality.

You might also want to learn some basic HTML to enhance your blog.