If you want to develop a personal website with regular entries of events, images or videos you can choose to use a Blog Content Management System. WordPress, is a best example of such a kind of content management system. and is relatively very easy to use when compared to other blogging systems. Even a non-technical person will be able to start working on WordPress within a couple of hours. A Blog Content Management System allows you to create posts, categorize posts to different groups and associate different keywords to these groups, provide commenting feature, add images and videos, change the design of the blog and so on.
Blogging systems like WordPress comes with plenty of core and thrid-party plug-ins with which you can extend them to your choice and imagination. Sites such as problogger, smashing magazine, techcrunch has been developed using Word Press.
Apart from WordPress you also have various other Content Management Systems like Movable Type, Expression Engine and so on. WordPress is relatively very easy to install when compared to MovableType. Wordpress is also hosted online for free. So if you cannot afford to buy a domain name you can just register with WordPress and start blogging. Later on if you wish to buy hosting space, you can migrate your WordPress blog to your hosting provider. Another excellent feature of Wordpress is that it could update itself, unlike other Generic Content Management Systems like Drupal, wherein updation has to be done manually which is a tedious task. I suggest you to try out, with all the Blog Management Systems specified above and go with the one which suits you the best.
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