FWIW, I hand coded my first blog, moved it to self hosted Word Press to try to focus more on content, less on the back end stuff and later moved to BlogSpot. I

FWIW, I hand coded my first blog, moved it to self hosted Word Press to try to focus more on content, less on the back end stuff and later moved to BlogSpot. I have been much more satisfied with BlogSpot. They also have very recently released new themes.