Weblog Sites Comparisons
| Blog: | Pros | Cons |
| Blogger/Blogspot | Free,Offline editor available. Good for private journaling. not very interactive. Simple and easy to use, largely cuztomizable if you know scripts and html, small banners, FTP and blogger publishing enabled. Free to include pictures or links. | No tagging. no site referral or notification (only to author), no subscription features |
| Xanga | Free, Easy templates, notification (daily digest), commenting capabilities, can play songs, wide user database, largely cuztomizable if you know scripts and html, subscribe to other users | have to be member to comment, no tagboards, annoying banner (removable with script), experience significant downtime, single stream commenting (can only comment to main entry), template's design is too "busy". Have to pay for Premium upgrade in order to upload pictures. |
| LJ/DJ/ujournal/calieda | awesome offline editor available, commenting capabilities, anonymous editing, can link easy to other LJ users, large database of users, reliable, connects to your friends on the database, indented commenting | default templates suck, NOT FREE need stupid codes or PAY for it (MAJOR con), no in-built tagboards |
| Blogdrive | Free, awesome online editor, commenting & tagging capabilities, sexy templates, nice pop-up for comments, easy to use calendar functions, anonymous commenting, FTP and blogdrive hosting | annoying banner (so far not removable), no linking to other users - have to create yourself, single stream commenting, no user profile page |
| Friendster | Free, ?? | annoying banner, ?? |
| MySpace | Free, ?? | ?? |
Many thanks to a friend, this is a subjective informal weblog site comparison chart. She originally did this in 2003, I have changed/added some current modifications. =)





0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home