Web Hosting Firm Hostway Now Offering SiteBlog for Free

Updated on Friday, February 18th, 2005 at 4:23 pm

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Hostway Corporation, a global leader inWeb hosting and managed services, today announces the launch of SiteBlog — aneasy-to-use blogging tool that’s free to the company’s new and existing SharedHosting and Advantage Dedicated Server customers. In tune to the popularblogging phenomenon on the Internet, SiteBlog provides an abundance offeatures that appeal to customers’ needs ranging from large corporations topersonal diaries.

“We at Hostway are pleased to offer our customers the ability to addblogging to their Web sites — for free,” says John Lee, vice president ofmarketing at Hostway Corporation. “With this easy and graphically appealingtool, our customers can communicate their message, whether business focused orpersonal opinion — in a more interactive, real-time medium.”

SiteBlog is now available at http://www.hostway.com/siteblog/ and allowsHostway customers to create and maintain an online journal, which can belinked from their regular Web sites. Customers may create unique profiles andchoose from 12 changeable design themes to appeal to their specific tastes andblogging objectives.

With what-you-see-is-what-you-get postings, users may clearly and easilyadd information onto their blogs using various colors, fonts, numbered listsand bullets. They may save drafts or publish work immediately, in addition toposting comments and pings on a per-post basis. SiteBlog also provides themeans to maintain customizable categories and add standard HTML links withinthese groupings.

Users can feel confident about SiteBlog’s security features, which assurethat only intended content appears on their blogs. Customers may takeadvantage of password-protected posting options, the ability to maintaincomment rules, and the preference to publish readers’ feedback automatically– or only with express administrator’s approval. They can also managecomment-spam rules and require that their blogging submitters leave emailaddresses for follow-up purposes.

SiteBlog has the ability to arrange for automatic updates andcommunication with other blogs and blog trackers via an email address foremail, pingbacks and trackbacks. Customers may also add and customize RSSfeed links to pull in headlines from news sites and other blogs.

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