I cannot comment on the closed systems, as I have not used them, but I do think that WordPress is a viable option. If you just want to write and for the writing to be seen by Google, then you really do not need more…
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Here is a human curated list of almost 1000 personal & independent blogs and sites - https://blogroll.org The site design is great, you can filter the blogs by topic and also submit your own.
The "100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere" - https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad... should help with achieving that. There is also a lively discussion and more examples on the Gist.
I cannot comment on the closed systems, as I have not used them, but I do think that WordPress is a viable option. If you just want to write and for the writing to be seen by Google, then you really do not need more…
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Here is a human curated list of almost 1000 personal & independent blogs and sites - https://blogroll.org The site design is great, you can filter the blogs by topic and also submit your own.
The "100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere" - https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad... should help with achieving that. There is also a lively discussion and more examples on the Gist.