There are many different blogging platforms available to todays budding blogger. Blogspot, Squidoo, LiveJournal, WordPress are just some of the options, and there are many others with seemingly similar features. With all the available blogging platforms, deciding which will meet your blogging needs can be a daunting task. There is a market leader though – WordPress. This is the “blog of choice” for most professional bloggers. Like most other blogging platforms, WordPress is free. It stands out from it’s competitors for other reasons, such as a higher storage allowance (a quite huge 3 gigs) Also, WordPress permits you to install their platform on to your own personal website, which most other blogging platforms don’t allow. Not only does installing WordPress on your website allow for complete control, but you you can make use of the entirety of the bandwidth provided by your internet hosting plan. That already generous 3 gig limit then become limitless! While most blogging platforms allow for only the hosting of image files, WordPress offers another another benefit in that as well as hosting images, you can also host other types of files, such as PDFs, Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. The open source nature of WordPress [...]