About Rakista Blog

Rakista Blog is a free full-featured blog hosting service targeting rock music lovers. You can have total customization over the look and feel of your blog, instantly publish content and images, and create a network of friends. Register now!

What is a Blog?
According to Wikipedia:
A blog is a website in which journal entries are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a "blogger". A blog comprises hypertext, images, and links (to other webpages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular "area of interest", such as Washington, D.C.'s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences.

Rakista Blog Features:

1.	Absolutely Free
2.	Create up to 3 Blogs per account
3.	Instant publishing
	When users write entries, they are published to their blogs immediately. Some blog hosting services force users to wait for their blogs to be published, which can take up to several minutes for large blogs. With Rakista Blogs, users can see their entries right away.
4.	Over 25 default templates
	Users can pick a visual template to use on their blog. Over 25 blog templates are alread included done. Templates are customizable, they are composed of simple HTML and CSS, along with special variables used by Rakista blogs to determine where the content is displayed, etc.
5.	WYSIWYG entry composer
	Since many blog authors are not familiar with HTML, we have included a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor on the users' add/edit entry pages. This makes adding different fonts, colors, styles, and images easy for users when they write their entries. The WYSIWYG editor is viewable in most modern browsers.
6.	Subdirectory URLs
	The subdirectory URLs feature allows you to provide your users' with blog URLs in the form of: http://blogs.rakista.com/blogname.
7.	Commenting
	When commenting is on, users can post comments for each other's blog entries. Comments may only be posted if the author has chosen to allow them on his or her entries. Comments include a link to the commenter's profile, and can also include the commenter's avatar (if included in the template).
8.	Privacy
	You can set your blog privacy to be viewable in to Everyone, Only Me, Only Friends, and Only Registered Users.
9.	"Friends only" entries
	If the friends feature is turned on, blog authors can post "friends only" entries. These entries are only visible by users who have been added to the authors' friend lists.
10.	RSS feeds
	Many blog authors publish their writing with RSS (Really Simple Syndication). This consists of a single file which can be loaded by various news reader software. If you have turned the RSS feature on, users will be able to link to their RSS file from their blog. This lets their readers receive notifications of your users' new entries.
11.	Avatars
	Users can upload small icons to personalize their user profiles and blogs. Avatars are also displayed within your users' message inbox and the user search results.
12.	Preview comments/entries
	When writing comments and entries, users can click a preview button which shows them how their comment or entry will look when it is posted.
13.	Customizable templates
	If you have enabled template customization, your users can edit the actual template code, allowing them to personalize their templates or create their own.
14.	Permanent links
	Every blog entry is given its own unique permanent link, which is helpful for search engine indexing and will encourage readers to link to your users' entries.
15.	Customizable entry date/time
	Your users have the option of customizing the date and time of their entries. The date and time format is adjustable by the admin.
16.	Draft entries
	Your users can write draft entries, which are not published to their blogs but are saved within their accounts for later use.
17.	Interests keywords
	If you have enabled the interests profile field, your users can add a list of their interests to their profiles. These interests are linked on their profiles - clicking an interest displays a list of all other users that share the same interest.
18.	File uploads
19.	Personal Photo Galleries
20.	Podcasting
21.	And more...

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