Charity ride blog help

[ELL]

Hello all, I am after some help and guidance to get a blog started.

I am doing a charity ride across France in September with my work. We have 2 teams of 4 doing it and are really pushing to raise as much money as possible. To try and achieve this we are looking at making a blog. Firstly so people can see the route we are taking and secondly so when we get back we can update it with pictures and a couple of stories (hopefully we will have some)of the event and maybe use it on the company website.

Basically never done one before and don't really know where to start. I presume they are as easy or difficult as you want them to be.



So firstly can anybody recommend me a site to use that will make things nice and easy? Is blogger.com any good?

Secondly on the blog I want to have an interactive map so I can upload photo along the journey and have them pinned to the map to pop-up when clicked. My camera has GPS tagging so this should hopefully make things a little easier with where to place them but I was wondering if this would be possible to do or if it a relatively simple thing.

Any other tips or ideas of things to do would be great would be great

Thanks

 

[srw]

Follow the link in my sig to www.ffortissimo.org.uk. It's a blogger-hosted site. We pay about £7 a year for the privilege of having our own domain name (from LCN.com), and blogger's instructions for linking the domain name to the blog were simple to follow. The blogger service itself is free - you just have to sell a little bit of your soul to google.

Posting is very easy - and if you want you can do it via email. We stayed in hotels and B&Bs. All of them apart from one came with free wi-fi access, and we carried a netbook with us - each night we copied photos off the camera and downloaded GPX files from the etrex GPS. The embedded GPS tracks are provided by wikiloc - probably the best site I've seen to embed maps, because it lets you tailor the display to your own requirements. I didn't investigate clickable/locatable photos.