Here's a more complete look at everything Cakewalk Blogs do. We promise: all this is either automatic or extremely simple to use.
"Search This Blog" allows readers to find all mentions of their search term in your entries, freeing the Cakewalk Blog author from the chore of categorizing entries.
Each entry has a "Print This Entry" link that goes to a printer-friendly version of the entry.
Readers get to choose from three type sizes to make reading a Cakewalk Blog easier.
Click any entry's "Email to a Friend" link to send an email about that entry, along with a greeting, to a friend who might be interested.
Readers can sign up to receive an email notification when there's a new entry on your Cakewalk Blog.
Clicking an entry's "Linking to This Entry" link presents that entry's "permalink" in a help balloon. Simplifies the process of linking to your entries, especially for other blog authors.
Readers may leave comments on each entry, optionally including their names and a comment title.
Readers with a comment or suggestion they would prefer remain private may use the Contact the Author page to send the author an email.
Readers who use blog aggregator software (feed readers) can add any Cakewalk Blog to their reading list, using the "Entries Feed" link.
The latest entries are shown a calendar week at a time, with clear navigation between weeks. On the "List of All Entries" page, readers will find entries organized by month.
You may enter your own title, subtitle and byline in the banner area of your Cakewalk Blog, and change it whenever you want.
Write under an assumed name or nickname, if you prefer. Your real name can remain completely hidden from the public.
Your byline can be completely different from your pen name.
We never reveal your email address to anyone, not even your readers.
Choose from among 8 professional blog designs with various colors and type styles. Change your blog design anytime and see the effect immediately.
Tell readers about your background and why you write about your blog topic.
Give your readers the reason you started writing this blog, or some background information on your blog topic. Saves repeating your assumptions and the fundamentals of your topic.
Share resources that you feel are worth recommending, like your favorite web sites, books or whatever.
Your blog gets its own web address, not just a string of numbers. Addresses look like this:
http://www.CakewalkBlogs.com/yourtitle/
where "yourtitle" is a version of the title you entered when you signed up, or your first and last name if you did not enter a title.
Order your own domain name to make your blog's web address reflect you and your writings. Just $44 for a 2-year registration. Turns your initial web address into something like:
http://www.ADomainNameYouChoose.com
which is easier to promote by word of mouth.
Cakewalk Blogs authors need not worry about running out of server space or bandwidth for entries. Each Cakewalk Blog comes with plenty of both for storing as many entries as you care to write.
Several advanced features are at work behind the scenes to make sure your entries get found. Each time you post a new entry, we automatically let the biggest blog search engines (and regular search engines) know about it. Cakewalk Blog pages are built with the latest technology for loading quickly in reader's browsers, enhancing the experience.
Cakewalk Blogs work entirely in a browser like the one you are using to read this page. There's nothing to download or install.
Unlike with other blog services, your Cakewalk Blog entry goes live the instant you post it. No need to upload, transfer, or wait for it.
If you have photos on a site like Flickr.com, you can show them - and discuss them - in Cakewalk Blog entries.
Do you have videos on a site like Google Video or YouTube? You can have them play in your Cakewalk Blogs entries, too.
Cakewalk Blog's help files really are helpful. On each of your Author Tools pages, the first item in the Help menu gives full details on how everything works. For more help, you can search the help database or read the help glossary.
The WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) entry editor gives you the formatting choices that you are used to from word processing programs or email programs.
You can write entries while disconnected from the Internet in your favorite word processing program, then paste them into the entry editor later when you're back online.
Write entries or entry ideas as drafts and keep them for as long as you like before showing them to the public. Plus, as you write you can click the "Save Changes" button to make sure your work is not lost to a bad Internet connection.
We've all come to depend on spell check! Cakewalk Blogs has a spell checker built in.
Control-Z is alive and well for the Cakewalk Blogs entry editor. You can also bold and italicize with Control-B and Control-I, respectively.
You can search among your entries to see what you've already written on a topic, then quickly review or edit those entries, all from your author tools pages.
You can make a blog entry automatically appear in a few days, a week, or whenever you want it to appear, as if you had written it that day. Useful for authors who like to write a few entries at once, then spread them out as "new" for the rest of the week.
Bring the best of the entries you wrote on another blog service into your new Cakewalk Blog, with their original posting dates.
Cakewalk Blog authors can add keywords that are related to the entry's topic but not specifically mentioned in the entry. This helps ensure the entry will show up in more searches.
Write a spiffy summary or synopsis of each entry that will pique reader interest. The summary is shown on the "List of All Entries" page, in the "Email to a Friend" emails, and in the reader email alerts.
Control whether you will accept reader comments for each entry individually. Some authors like to see comments for a while, then shut them off. With Cakwalk Blogs, it's easy and you can always change your mind later.
Automated comment spam won't bother you because we've added a puzzle to the comment process. People can solve it easily, but computers cannot.
Cakewalk Blog authors can choose to review comments before they're shown to the public, or let them go live immediately.
Whether comments go live as soon as they are written or not, you can review, delete or approve, and reply to them. Keeping track of which comments you've seen is simple, because unreviewed comments appear on a their own author tools page.
Cakewalk Blog authors can post a reply to each comment, anytime. Replies are shown below the comment they belong to, no matter when the reply was entered.
Authors can search among all the reader comments and author replies.
Cakewalk Blog authors can choose to receive an email after a certain number of readers have left comments. This makes handling comments in a timely fashion far easier.
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