Design Tools:  

First the drawbacks: no open source templates, no audio, and no video capabilities. They have many fine premade templates available.

But they do have spell check and preview as well as many widgets from which to choose.

You can easily upload and manage digital images. BlogHarbor supports automatic thumbnail generation and resizing and up to 2 GB of disk space.

You can buy and use your own domain name with BlogHarbor.
 

Publishing and Tracking Tools:  

You can post from your mobile phone or from your email.

You can monitor traffic stats on BlogHarbor. This detailed information available from the dashboard of your account will tell you how many visitors have been on your blog, how they found you and exactly what they are reading.

They only use RSS syndication and do support trackbacks, but for spam filtering you are on your own.

You can place Google AdSense ads on your blog as well to enjoy a bit of monetization. There are plenty of articles on BlogHarbor about how to use and place AdSense on your blog so if you don’t know anything about this, no problem. They will teach you.

Podcasting is ideal for BlogHarbor – it’s another great way to enhance the features of your blog and give your readers an actual voice to match with your blog posts. If you don’t know anything about podcasting, again, no problem. There are many resources on BlogHarbor to teach you how to add this element to your multimedia arsenal.

They have a great poll tool here where you can create the element of interactivity within your blog.