Best Blog Tool?

I'm sure a lot of people here blog, and Xisto has quite a lot of different systems for easy installing, but which one do you think is the best? I'm asking because there just so many different to choose from in the "Addon Scripts" section, and I have no idea what the pros and cons are of the different systems. So any personal experiences with good and bad sides would be great. As you probably already have guessed I'm mainly looking for a discussion about blog systems that will run on Xisto. So saying "LiveJournal" doesn't count.

If i were you i would install all of them, and just try :P:D loli've never used a blog

the blogger software i have had good experiences with are Blogger? and Invison Power Blogger?my best friend runs a website technoblog.g4l.net and he uses Blogger?my suggestion is if you really want a good blogger get either of those

Well, Blogger would require me to host it at Blogger (as far as I could tell from their website), and installing "all of them" is just undoable.But I think I will install a few of them, because that seems to be the way to go to find out which is best. I think I'll start with Movable Type.

I've used many blogs before, boastMachine, b2, Geeklog, and many others, I'd recommend the folowing.

1) If you want a nice simple blog, with simple posting an few set-ups, use b2, a non-graphical approach. (You can see a sample of how the blog looks like at http://www.cafelog.com/)

2) If you want a more cutomizable blog, and more features, like RSS and pingbacks to blog websites, you should use boastMachine. (Check out a boastMachine "demo blog" at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/)

3) And finally, if you're going for highly graphical, powerful Content Management, and a wealth of features, such as Static Pages, a Download Page, Mulitple posters, Categories, and highly customizble interface, many themes, and skins, you should use Geeklog, the one that I use now. (You can see how it looks like by seegin my GeekLog blog at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ )

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the tip, this was the kind of advice I was looking for. I really want to be able to customize things as much as I want, so Geeklog does sound good. Unfortunately I've already installed Movable Type and am busy playing around with it to find out what I can do with it. I might try Geeklog later on when I've played with MT a bit.

Wordpress is the best. I have been using it for half a year now and the script is quite stable. There are also a lot of plug-ins that you can install and plenty of styles available. There is some room for improvement though, say, there is no built in backup function and you have to get a host which supports phpmyadmin. Also there is no abstraction layer like phpBB, so you have to stick to MySQL but not other database. The script is not as compact as some other GNU blogging scripts but the built in functions are really good.

What internet browser do you use?

I prefer this http://www.thefoxtales.net/ - it's very fast.

What internet browser do you use?
I prefer this http://www.thefoxtales.net/ - it's very fast.

I thought we were talking about blogging tools, not about browsers. Anyway no one mentioned joomla, why?
It's nice, easy customizable, multi authors and, installing some components and modules you can transofrm it in a complete full optionals blog, community, chat and forum!!! It's perfect and, despite of what someone can thing... it's easy!

I think that the best blogging software for me is Wordpress, it's free, it's easy to use and it is being updated all the time, moreover it has a really big choice of templates which you can use, the main thing you need to do is to blog, write posts ^_^Even though, joomla with a blog module of some kind I guess is also superb.

Well, Blogger would require me to host it at Blogger (as far as I could tell from their website)...

Ah, no. You can configure your blog so that the interface you use is Blogger but the content is hosted on your server. Blogger does this via FTP so, yeah, you'll need to allow Blogger FTP access to your host server.

Personally, though, I like Blogger. Before, I had to create my own CMS for my library but, just recently, I have moved it to Blogger. I think it's flexible enough (not as flexible as Wordpress, admittedly, but pretty work-able for me) Needless to say, my blog's in Blogger too

i think blogger is the best. its ad free and its run by google so you know its trustworthy and that there is plenty of money behind it. its also the biggest blogging tool as well (the most customers) so they would have a lot of feedback so they can make it the best it can be.

I'd go with Wordpress over Blogger. By default, it supports a lot more items, has more themes/layouts written for it, and is much more customizable. I like Blogger and use it for a blog, but it really doesn't compare with how good Wordpress is. Also, the setup procedures have been revamped so that the actual setup takes less than a minute and then you can be off blogging about whatever your heart desires.Regards,z.