Hostway
Now Offering SiteBlog Free to Customers: Think It ...
Write It ... Share It With the World [February
18, 2005]
CHICAGO,
Feb 18, 2005 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Hostway Corporation,
a global leader in Web hosting and managed services,
today announces the launch of SiteBlog -- an easy-to-use
blogging tool that's free to the company's new and existing
Shared Hosting and Advantage Dedicated Server customers.
In tune to the popular blogging phenomenon on the Internet,
SiteBlog provides an abundance of features that appeal
to customers' needs ranging from large corporations
to personal diaries.
"We at Hostway are pleased to offer
our customers the ability to add blogging to their Web
sites -- for free," says John Lee, vice president
of marketing at Hostway Corporation. "With this
easy and graphically appealing tool, our customers can
communicate their message, whether business focused
or personal opinion -- in a more interactive, real-time
medium."
SiteBlog
is now available at http://www.hostway.com/siteblog/
and allows Hostway customers to create and maintain
an online journal, which can be linked from their regular
Web sites. Customers may create unique profiles and
choose from 12 changeable design themes to appeal to
their specific tastes and blogging objectives.
With what-you-see-is-what-you-get postings,
users may clearly and easily add information onto their
blogs using various colors, fonts, numbered lists and
bullets. They may save drafts or publish work immediately,
in addition to posting comments and pings on a per-post
basis. SiteBlog also provides the means to maintain
customizable categories and add standard HTML links
within these groupings.
Users can feel confident about SiteBlog's
security features, which assure that only intended content
appears on their blogs. Customers may take advantage
of password-protected posting options, the ability to
maintain comment rules, and the preference to publish
readers' feedback automatically -- or only with express
administrator's approval. They can also manage comment-spam
rules and require that their blogging submitters leave
email addresses for follow-up purposes.
SiteBlog has the ability to arrange
for automatic updates and communication with other blogs
and blog trackers via an email address for email, pingbacks
and trackbacks. Customers may also add and customize
RSS feed links to pull in headlines from news sites
and other blogs.
About
Hostway
Hostway
Corporation provides Web hosting and managed services
to more than 300,000 customers worldwide. Hostway helps
individuals, small businesses and large enterprises
achieve more value from state-of-the-art Web-based technologies
by reducing their complexity and cost. Founded in 1998,
Hostway is one of the five largest Web hosting companies
in the world with offices in North America (Chicago,
Tampa and Vancouver), Europe (London and Amsterdam),
Seoul, Asia and Sydney, Australia. For more information
about Hostway Corporation, please visit http://www.hostway.com
or call 1-888-290-5170.
Contact: Lauria Locsmondy, Hostway,
312/994-7720, Lauria.Locsmondy@hostway.com
Tina Janczura, Slack Barshinger, 312/970-5841,
Tina.Janczura@slackbarshinger.com
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