Free blog services are often surprisingly good for beginners. And you get many nice goodies added on to your blog platform, like free blog backgrounds and templates to select from.
Blogger and WordPress, the most popular platforms, are both free. And many people work on creating free blog backgrounds, themes, graphics and plug-ins for the millions of bloggers registered on the service.
Here’s a quick video from Google about getting started with Blogger.com
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