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The details of few of the blog creating softwares are mentioned below:

FactoSystem Weblog (ASP based)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/facto/

Facto is a collaborative web publishing system. The system can be used for creating personal or group ‘Blog’ type sites. It is written entirely in Active Server Pages (ASP) and can use Microsoft Access or SQL Server as a database backend. Its development status is : 4 - Beta, 5 - Production/Stable and environment in which it runs is web environment, Win32 (MS Windows). The intended audience is defined to be end users/desktop, other audience and system administrators. The software’s natural language is English. The operating system that is required is Windows 95/98/2000 and the programming languages used are ASP and JavaScript. It is mostly used for message boards and site management.

Facto can be a customized. One can try coding to “render a blurb in HTML” to be in a separate file. It relies on the BlurbRS recordset having the correct field names with the SQL in some of the other files. Instead of querying the Comments table every time it displays a blurb. The layout can also be changed as some people may not require the left or right columns. A function on the routines page can be created that displays the blurb as required. The searchresults page then needs to be fixed since a different name for the blurb is used to do this.

InstaBlog
http://instablog.hit.bg/

InstaBlog appeared as a result of two things: responding to the simplest possible way to maintain a weblog, and trying out the extremely cool Perl MSN IM client. InstaBlog functions in the following manner: it is run as a background process on a machine with Internet access. With its own Passport identification it is constantly logged into the MSN instant messenger service. When something worthy of note is found in the weblog, chat windows is opened with the InstaBlog and the weblog entry is typed. The software takes it, adds it to a copy of the weblog it maintains, and uploads it via FTP to a webserver. The message should appear on the website specified in config.xml. The InstaBlog bot uploads three files: the actual weblog.xml, the stylesheet to display it (weblog.xsl), and an index.html which redirects to weblog.xml. The software is written in Perl.

OpenJournal
http://www.grohol.com/downloads/oj/

OpenJournal is a completely Web-based interface. The software’s features include: automated file creation; automated index updating; editing of all files through a Web-based interface; entries with or without titles and time posted; automated archiving based on a weekly or monthly format. All done through ordinary text files and no additional perl modules are needed to run it. Basically, the software allows the users to keep an online journal, customize and configure it. All needed to do after installation is to write in it from time to time. It requires no third-party, external perl libraries or support programs. The program itself is relatively small and simple and takes about 5 minutes to install and another 5 or 10 to customize. The 2.x versions of OpenJournal make use of the auth.pl perl script to handle its authentication routines. Other features of the software include: automatic new file creation, automatic indexing, automatic weekly or monthly archiving without need of cron, no messy backend database to worry about, uses plain text and html files, web-based editing of all files created without using cookies, encrypted user accounts and robust authorization, multiuser support, preview functionality, configuration file separate from main program, templated construction (easy customization), cross-platform date function .

GeekLog - The Ultimate Weblog System
http://sourceforge.net/projects/geeklog

GeekLog is a web content management system suitable for running full-featured community sites. It supports article posting, threaded comments, event scheduling, and link management and is built around a design philosophy that emphasizes ease of use. The development status of the software is 5 - Production/Stable. It requires web environment. The software has been designed keeping in mind the intended audience to be developers, end users/desktop. The software’s natural language is English and uses OS Independent as its operating system. The programming language that has been used is PHP and functions mostly to maintain dynamic content.

Other Useful Sites:

For Commenting Systems

aspcomments
http://www.sneaker.org/index.html
Free ASP-based comment system for use on Blogger-backed and other weblogs.

BlogBack
http://www.tecknik.net/blogback/
Comment system that does not require server installation.

blogKomm
http://blogkomm.com/index.php
PHP-based system to integrate comments directly into a blog

cgiComments
http://www.knurdle.com/commenting.php
Free perl-based comment system for use on Blogger-backed and other weblogs.

dotcomments
http://www.foreword.net/
Free PHP-based comment system for use on Blogger-backed and other weblogs.

Enetation
http://www.enetation.co.uk/index.php?
Free hosted commenting system

SnorComments
http://www.snorland.com/scripts/snorcomments/
Hosted commenting system for Blogger-based blogs

YACCS
http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/
“Commenting made simple”

For Posting APIs and Tools

AvantBlog
http://www.dentedreality.com.au/avantblog/
Posting from Palm or Windows CE via AvantGo

BLog
http://www.iternum.net/developer/web…blog/index.jsp
Web services interface to (I think) Blogger.

blogBuddy
http://blogbuddy.sourceforge.net/htt…urceforge.net/
Windows front-end to Blogger.

Bloggenmoz
http://bloggenmoz.antville.org/topics/download
Blogger API support for Mozilla Composer

Blogger API
http://www.blogger.com/developers/api/
Details of the XML-RPC interface to Blogger

BloggerBot
http://www.fibiger.org/bloggerbot/
AIM client for Blogger.

bloggerCOM
http://www.fibiger.org/bloggerbot/
COM interface to the Blogger API

blogger.el
http://elisp.info/
EMACS module to post using the Blogger API

BlogniX
http://blognix.sourceforge.net/
Blogger client for Linux

BlogScript
http://www.webentourage.com/
Mac OS X.1 tool for easy posting to Blogger-powered blogs.