Blog providers

I have created a couple blogs using different providers including no'time, tripod. I like Blogger better than the other two. No'time provides pretty templates but not very user-friendly-not easy to customize these templates, especially for new users. Tripod offers very user-friendly templates. It's easy to customize. Users don't need to know HTML. There are options provided for users to customize their templates. However, there are a lot annoying commerical ads (for the free blogs).