Originally Posted by wizwow

Look into having a good, solid site made for you and then use macromedia's excellent "Contribute" to add stories, articles and even a very 'bloggish' column if you so wish.
Contribute is a very simple content management tool that allows for total dynamic updating.
Never scrimp on designing a solid, easily searched page. Blogger.com has lots of 'down time' and the others are just too buggy.
Getting your blog (site) noticed is the same challenge as always.