What is the best way to start a blog?

I have always loved to write and am quite good at it, and blogging would be the way to go for me as I'm a disabled (back problems), single mother who home schools my two minor children. I want to blog and then obtain my own website for this purpose....

I am not against hosted blog sights like Blogger (I currently have a blog on Blogger) but, to my knowledge, I am unable to create the photo album format I desire – one photo per page with captions on the bottom – exactly like photo albums on Facebook...

I have an idea for a blog to help the people in Tennessee who are in the midst of a horrific natural disaster. What's the best way to go about setting up and running one? Is there one method that's better than another? Simple is good in this case. What...

I'm not sure I exactly know what I want, but I want to start up a blog or opinion website with 2 other people. How do you get a website (your own domain name and everything) and ...show more

Okay, do I start with a host or buy a domain name? I want something I can use HTML for the content, add pics/video, etc., have some control over background, but I don't want to have to build the site from the ground up. Any feedback on popular blog hosting...

I'm a writer and my daughter told me I should make a blog site to get my writing out on the web. I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone tell me how to start so that I don't ...show more

Could you please make a recommendation? It does not need to be a free site. I am willing to pay if the characteristics are nice. Free blog sites are also welcome. Give me tips.

I am familiar with Rackspace cloud, but if the site got popular, is it easy to scale the server up? I think Amazon would be more expensive at the start, but it seems to scale up very well? The website won't generate much traffic at first until the marketing...