WordPress is a great-looking and well-structured personal blog system. With some hosting providers you can activate WordPress on your web site literally with 3 mouse clicks. And you can start adding your posts and creating your pages within a couple of minutes.

WordPress has a large supporting community. There are many free WordPress themes on the Internet and you can easily change your default theme with a new one. Additionally, there are plugins, which you can add to your WP blog to enhance its functionality, such as image galleries, statistics, anti-spam, etc. WordPress has a built-in search tool and archive. Comments tool is also included in the basic installation package.

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Textpattern is a free, elegant and easy-to-use weblog software. Its built-in Textile syntax transforms text html valid web content. In Textpattern you can easily link to other sites and to other areas within your own site. Sites published with Textpattern can employ unlimited registered contributors, each with different privileges. With SiteGround hosting pack you get Textpattern installed for free.

Textpattern has implemented the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard and this allows you to manage your web content appearance from one file only. Everything from fonts and colors to sizes and positions can be governed through CSS.

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Most of the blog sites hosted on SiteGround servers are built with WordPress. That is because WP offers the richest set of features and plugins. Still, all the other tools listed in the following comparison table can meet 90% of your blog needs. So, if you really like the look, the usability or the friendly community of Nucleus, b2evolution or Textpattern go ahead, install them and create your own online presence. Good luck!