Web Tech Plaza

Dreamhost - Offers a lot for a very small amount of money. CirtexHosting - Hosting plans starting at as little as $2. BlueHost - Another affordable hosting solution. HostGator - Cheap shared personal hosting. Media Temple - Grid based hosting; known to be able to sustain lots of traffic.

WordPress - WordPress allows you to create and host a blog on their own servers and you can display it to the world. You don’t get as much customization and functionality as if you have it hosted on your own server (for example, advertising is not allowed), but it is still a very good way to blog without paying money. Blogger - A service owned by Google, Blogger is a way to have your blogs hosted for free and you can post as much as you want. It allows Google’s AdSense to be used. Xanga - iXanga is a lively community of online diaries and journals. Users create their own profiles and there are many opportunities to interact with other users. LiveJournal - LiveJournal is excellent if you wish to blog on a personal level and join a community and share your blogs among friends. Vox - A new contender to the arena but Vox is a very nice and powerful blogging tool; not to mention free!; You receive many social experiences with this option as Vox is based heavily on community based blogg...

About.com Weblogs - Professional blogger / freelance writer Deborah Ng covers a wide range of blogging topics for all levels of blogger, but is especially good for new bloggers. Advanced Business Blogging - Two people who are really making money with blogs and new media and showing others how to. Blogging for Business - Ted Demopoulos focuses “on practical business implications and uses of new media and technologies, including Blogging and Business, pod-casting, and other ‘Cool Internet Stuff’.” Andy Wibbels - The author of Blog Wild! puts emphasises blogs for small business marketing, but his tips are useful for all bloggers. Problogger - Darren Rowse is the definitive guide to making money with your blog. MasterNewMedia - A site about independent publishing and social media which publishes articles showing how to create effective blogs and improve online marketing strategies. Copyblogger - a great resource of no-nonsense information for bloggers (and everyone else who wants t...

Technorati - One of the most popular search engines for blogs; its top list is one of the most often cited metrics on the Internet. Sphere - a blog search engine that offers a contextual widget which shows related posts from other blogs. Google Blog Search - A very simple blog search engine. It’s basically Google Search that only looks through blogs and comments on blogs. Ice Rocket – A Google-like blog search engine.