Here’s a sampling of features that might make you want to use wowchinese.com. We’re not fancy-pants marketers, just a group of geeks who are passionate about enabling people to publish on the web. When you’re ready, we’d love to have you sign up for a blog with us!
It Takes Seconds and is Free!
You can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address and a name. You can blog as much as you want for free, your blog can be public to the world or private for just your friends.
Dozens of Gorgeous Themes
You can change the look of your blog with over 60 attractive themes ranging from professional to fun to crazy, and you can switch themes instantly with just a click of a button. Each theme allows you to customize your sidebar using widgets. We add themes regularly based on user requests. If you’re a CSS pro, you can also customize your CSS code and full HTML .
Categorize and Tag Your Posts
wowchinese.com includes an easy system which allows you to categorize and tag your posts while you write them. We automatically create archives based on your categories and add them to our global tag system and our tag surfer, so you get extra traffic as other people interested in the same topics as you will find your post and leave comments on your blog.
Spell-check, Autosave, Words, Photos, Videos
Our built-in rich text editor makes it easy to create great looking posts. You can upload your own photos or easily include images from other services like Flickr or Photobucket. You can even embed videos from places like YouTube or Google. To keep you from looking too silly, we include an inline spell-checker that makes it easy to proof your posts. Finally we know how frustrating it can be to lose hours of hard work, so every minute when you’re writing a post we save it to the server to keep your post safe in case your computer crashes or something else happens.
Integrated Stats System
We have an integrated stats system which gives you up-to-the-minute stats on how many people are visiting your blog, where they’re coming from, which posts are most popular, and which search engine terms are sending people to your blog.
Automatic Spam Protection
wowchinese.com uses Captcha, the world’s best comment and trackback spam technology. It blocks spammers from leaving spam comments on your blog (we block over 1,000 spam comments a day for some of our bloggers!). Akismet also helps us shut down spam blogs that try to sneak onto wowchinese.com (so your blog won’t be in the same community as some Viagra touting site). If a spam comment or blog slips through, you can report them and help get them blocked from the system.
Lots of Privacy Options, including Members-Only Blogs
wowchinese.com allows you to have a completely public blog, a blog which is public but not included in search engines or our public listings, or a private blog which only members can access.
Import from Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal, and More
If you already have a blog elsewhere and would like to move it over to wowchinese.com, we provide several import options that can import posts and comments.
Great Help If You Need It
If you have questions about using or extending your blog, we’ve got some of the most responsive support around. We’ve got friendly fellow users in the forums and on our support team who will help you out. There is a feedback form on every page, a contact form, and the forums are active 24 hours a day.
A Great Blogging Community
wowchinese.com is a community and conversations continue from one blog post to another and through the comments. Our tag surfer feature makes it easy for you to find like minded bloggers interested in the same topics as you and connect with them.
Easily Track Followups to your Comments
When you’re signed in and leave a comment on wowchinese.com, we have a special page which notifies you of any followups to your comment so you can easily follow your conversations no matter what blog they’re on.
Sidebar Widgets for Flickr, del.icio.us, Meebo, and More
You can add “widgets” to your sidebar and rearrange them without touching any HTML code or messing up your blog. Just drag and drop the sidebar widgets around, and instantly you can have fun stuff in your sidebar. We’re adding new widgets all the time based on your feedback and requests.
Manage Regular Pages, not Just Blog Posts
wowchinese.com has a feature called “pages” which allows you to easily create web pages. For example, you could add an “about me” page with your biography, and a link to that page would be automatically added to your sidebar. You can even create an entire web site using pages on wowchinese.com, with a custom home page and your blog as one of the sub-pages.
Export
You can leave wowchinese.com any time you want and your content isn’t locked in. We provide a complete XML export of all your posts and comments.
Multiple Blogs and Multiple Authors
You can have as many blogs as you want! You’re only limited by your imagination. You can have group blogs with multiple authors who are allowed to post or contribute. This is great for topic blogs for things like books or politics, or just a blog for you and your friends in one place.
No Rebuilding
Every change and edit you make to your blog is INSTANT, there is no rebuilding or waiting. Same for comments.
Very Fast and Reliable Service
We run hundreds of servers in three datacenters (Dallas, San Francisco, San Antonio) with instant copies of all your data and uploads in each. This allows us to serve your blog very quickly, and also if something catastrophic were to happen, like California falling into the ocean or Dallas being hit by a meteor, your blog would be okay. (Even though if that happened you’d probably have bigger things on your mind.) 99.9% of blog hosts out there just have one datacenter.
Advertising
To support the service we may occasionally show Google text ads on your blog, however we do this very rarely. In the future you’ll be able to purchase an upgrade to either turn the ads off or show your own ads and make money from your blog.
