Free WP blog on Bizhat

http://www.netfreehost.com/

is another free hosting service that offers, among other things, free WordPress blog hosting.

* 50 MB Web Space
* 5 GB Monthly Transfers
* FTP Access for Uploading
* Server-Side Includes (SSI)
* IE Based File Manager
* No Ads, No Banners, No Pop-Ups
* Hosted Message Board, Hit Counter
* Sub Domain Name (YOU.BizHat.com)

You get 53 (yes, you read that right) 53 themes to choose from. However the URL you end up with leaves pretty much to be desired:

http://blogs.bizhat.com/accidentalgeek/

Bizhat, as with wordpress.com, provides the user with a wysiwyg Preview screen, so you know exactly how your post is going to look like on your page layout before you hit Publish. And as with most of the free WP hosts I’ve come across with, all they ask for is what you want to name your blog, and your email address. It also allows you to create categories on the fly, which is a feature I would like to have on my own paid-for WP host.

Do NOT however, under any circumstances, click on the “Import” link that appears on the Dashboard. It will log you out and then refuse to recognize your password. If you’re lucky you can hit “Back” and still see the previous page you were on, but if not you will have to click on the lost password link and go through the reset password rigamarole. If you still click on it after this warning … you’re a stubborn ****.

Free WordPress

and it’s pretty straightforward too. click on the signup link and in less than a minute (if you’re on a DSL connection) you will have a WordPress blog. It has everything a paid hosted blog has (haven’t found the FTP yet, but I know it’s there somewhere). Click here to have a look:

http://main.freewordpress.com/

It only has 10 pre-installed templates to choose from, but it allows you to edit the individual pages. So if you’re adept at mucking about templates, the limited number of templates should be a minor setback.

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Dear Santa . . .

free wordpress hosting review 2 – blogzor

http://blogzor.com/

here’s some goodies not offered in the other free wordpress hosting services:

You can select from 30 different templates so you can get the exact look that you are looking for. If you don’t like any of the templates included you can create your own or modify existing ones.

You can even log in to their demo site and get a good look at their blogging interface without having to register first. The interface is exactly like the freebie blog offered by superb.net to its hosting clients. It’s powered by LifeType which is is released under the GPL license, and requires PHP and MySQL to work.

Google sitemaps are also pre-enabled on the site, so you don’t have to work too hard to get your blog listed in the search engines. And best thing of all — NO ADS.

Why No Ads?

We feel that pop-ups and annoying banner ads are such a distraction from the content of websites that we will not ever have them on Blogzor.com ever!

Sounds like a pretty good promise.

One of the neat things you can do with blogzor that you may not be able to do on other free wordpress hosts without signing up for a new one is change the URL of your blog.

Signing up is a breeze, enter the usual data required (username, password, email address), then select a template (you can change this later), and voila, you get an email telling you your account has been activated and what you need to do next. i signed up myself and the entire process took less than five minutes.

the I3 blog runs on the same blogging machine so I have a lead on would-be blogzor newbies, but I would recommend it over blogsome (review coming up next).