Best free blog forum?

[Jake]

Google's http://blogger.com is the biggest, hosting some 1.6 Billion pages, they give you a free subdomain, kinda like a P.O. Box address, looking like: yourbusiness.blogspot.com, you can use a custom domain name obtained at a separate registrar like Godaddy or Namecheap for about $10 a year so the address is yourbusiness.com, with a custom domain you can relocate to to another host without losing all the links and search ranking, a name makes you look more professional as well.

Try Google searching, site:blogspot.com intitle:"Beauty"
to see the Blogger site styles.

Wordpress.com is the free hosted version of the industry standard blog engine, what you learn and develop there can be put to use on a paid hosting account later in your career, Google's Blogger is a proprietary platform only available on their hosting. 17% of the top 1 Million sites are using Wordpress.