Free blog software for windows

Blog is an automatic web log program which allows you to update your site easily without the hassles of HTML editing while maintaining a uniform, template driven design of your pages.
You simply set Blog up with the necessary information for logging into your site via FTP, define a template to specify the look for your page and then type in your entries in the main Blog window and click Publish and Blog does the rest.
If you are experienced with HTML, you can completely customize the templates to match your site design. Blog also handles the task of generating archival entries for older posts.
It is a very convenient way to keep a site (or multiple sites) updated without going through several programs to do the job.
The program includes a FTP upload utility as well as a site manger to maintain multiple sites.
Features:
- Everything is self-contained - no need for other programs like an HTML editor or an FTP client.
- Can handle multiple journals so that you can have more than one site or more than one page updated on the same server.
- Can handle different templates for each journal so if you have multiple pages on the same site, you can have a different look for each page.
- You can also have the same journal on several sites - especially useful for keeping mirror sites in synch with the main site.
- You can have multiple journals/pages on the same site - for instance a news page and a product update page.
- Creates archival entries for older posts on request and you can specify a look of your choice (different from that of general posts) for the archive table of contents.
- Built in spell checker and thesaurus. You can have live spellchecking as you type.
- The Client and Server modes let several people share the joy/burden of maintaining a single site by sharing postings - all you need is to have one machine running Blog in Server mode - this machine need not even be always connected to the Net since Blog dials out when necessary to collect posts sent in Client mode.
- The ability to summarize posts with an automatically generated page which contains the whole post and a link to this page from the main journal.
- The option to receive posts from a variety of different sources with e-mail capability such as cellular phones, PDAs, web-based e-mail etc. in Server mode.
- The ability to assign often used custom HTML tags as menu commands and toolbar buttons for easy accessibility.
- The ability to have built-in comments without the need for any server-side scripting. (The comments work via e-mail and so, Blog needs to be running in Server mode)
- The ability to send a weekly or monthly digest of entries to subscribed users and built-in basic listserver functionality to handle digest subscription/unsubscription.
- The ability to assign multiple categories to any entry and be able to display archives by category.

Blog Blaster is an automated tool designed to submit your blogs to over 12 blog search engines on a click of a button.
Pinging your blogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the
search engine robots to visit your blog and gain increased traffic in a short amount of time.
Blog Blaster uses the XML-RPC interface to ping your blogs to the blog search engines. This is the preferred method to submit blogs to the directories. "Ping" is the term used to submit a blog to a blog search engine. When you ping a blog, you are telling the search engine that you have updated your content and that your listing should be refreshed.
The following blog search engines are supported: Weblogs, NewsGator, Feed Burner, Pingomatic, Blo.gs, BlogRolling, Technorati, Feedster, Blogdigger, Moreover, Syndic8, My Yahoo!, Weblogalot, PubSub, BlogStreet
Note: The Free License allows blog submission for non-commercial purposes including personal blogs, personal projects, and personal web sites.