Dotclear is without a doubt one of the most widely used blog platforms, if not the most widely used in the francophone blogosphere. Using dotclear to create your blog is very advantageous because it's huge following makes it quick and easy to find help and file extensions
Dotclear enables you to obtain standard html code, use CSS for your theme and achieve a polished website, which can hold its own next to some of the most complicated sites. It is unicode compliant and is therefore compatible with most languages. RSS and atom feeds are available, as are trackbacks
You benefit from a comprehensive online administration system for the publication and management of multi-users for your blog.
Particular attention has been paid to security during the development of dotclear. To use dotclear, you need to have a php or mysql host provider (php host provider, mysql host provider)
Dotclear is available for free at: dotclear
Many websites offering blog services for free are based on dotclear: free blog
Here's a little dotclear blog so you can see what one looks like: salemioche blog
Content management systems (CMS) enable you to edit your content very easily. SPIP is a very popular french product, demonstrated by this owner-grower or as an indexing tool