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Recommend a good blogging site

I'm new to blogging and would like suggestions for a site which offers advanced functionality and flexibility for blogs that perhaps allows me to use my own web domain name and sponsorship from advertisers but tools that enable me to have a dash board / control panel type interface.

I would prefer a free one but would consider paying a small monthly charge if required. I know of a few. Wordpress is one that springs to mind.  Any other good quality blogs sites that people here can highly recommend?
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Wordpress.com has an advanced option for a fee that allows you to use your own domain name instead of yoursite.wordpress.com.  I'm pretty sure Blogger and Tumblr have something similar. Otherwise, WordPress is far and away the most feature rich free offering.

WordPress would be my choice for a written blog.  But If you are planning a blog that revolves around images with minimal writing, I would look at Tumblr first.
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Is there a dash board type panel and is it easy enough for someone with no web programming skills to have a page setup, add pics etc?

What about banners / adverts / page view statistics / google analytics etc- do such sites cater for that?

Any idea on cost?
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