Alice, I'd like to see your blog(s)- may I?

I've been reading about both WordPress and Blogspot. The consensus seems to be that WordPress has more features and flexibility.

Maeve, I'll check out the Make Your Own- I've read a number of sites but I don't think I've come across that one yet.

Amos, I may well get a template and fill it in- especially if I can later customize it. Evidently the template, one size fits all, is sneered at. (I don't mind being sneered at:)

Jack Campin, from what I've been reading, what I plan to do is quite different from commercializing- I want to be a middle man. Perhaps later in the natural course of events I'll expand my efforts. In any case, from what I understand, it is perfectly permissible to sell things on one's blog.

As for Twitter, I don't have or use a cell phone. That may change, of course.

Thanks, people. You've given me a start. (Not as 'startled'!)