Rating Breakdown
website (NAME OF BLOGGING SERVICE)Overall Rating: AVERAGE OF SECTION RATINGS/10
DATE OF REVIEW
- Content Control
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- Ads
- If there are no ads the service gets 10 points, otherwise:
- 1 point for being able to change the position of the ad(s)
- 1 point for being able to change the look of the ad(s)
- 1 point if the ad(s) are/is targeted ad(s)
- Number of ads - out of 3 points
- 1 ad or less, full 3 points
- 2 ads, 2 points
- 3 or more ads, 1 point
- 5 or more ads, 0 points
- Kind of ad(s) - out of 3 points
- Text only, full 3 points
- Banner ad(s), 2 points
- Popup ad(s), 1 point
- Entrance/exit ad(s), 0 points
- Storage Space - out of 10 points
- 100 MB or more, 10 points
- 90 MB or more, 9 points
- 80 MB or more, 8 points
- 70 MB or more, 7 points
- 60 MB or more, 6 points
- 50 MB or more, 5 points
- 40 MB or more, 4 points
- 30 MB or more, 3 points
- 20 MB or more, 2 points
- 10 MB or more, 1 point
- Less than 10MB, 0 points
- Visible Content
- 1 point for a customisable title
- 1 point for a customisable subtitle
- 1 point for Amazon Associates links
- 1 point for webring support
- 1 point for guestbook support
- 1 point for being able to insert custom HTML fragments
- 1 point for custom links/blogrolls
- 1 point for being able to categorise custom links
- 1 point for profile support
- 1 point for display picture support
- Posts
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- Content
- 1 point for basic font stuff (bold, italic, underline, etc)
- 1 point for being able to change font colours
- 1 point for being able to change font face
- 1 point for having support for a wide variety of fonts (more than 10)
- 1 point for graphic emoticon support
- 1 point for being able to edit the post code directly
- 1 point for having support for a separate excerpt and body
- 1 point for being able to insert images
- 1 point for having image hosting
- 1 point for having 10MB or more of image hosting
- Editing
- 1 point for being able to edit the title of a post (after posting)
- 1 point for being able to edit the category of a post (after posting)
- 1 point for being able to edit the excerpt of a post (after posting)
- 1 point for being able to edit the body of a post (after posting)
- 1 point for being able to delete a post
- 1 point for being able to undelete a post
- 1 point for being able to turn comments on at writing
- 1 point for being able to turn comments off at writing
- 1 point for being able to turn comments on after posting
- 1 point for being able to turn comments off after posting
- Accessibility
- 1 point for being able to categorise a post
- 1 point for being able to put a post in multiple categories
- 1 point for being able to rename categories
- 1 point for being able to delete categories
- 1 point for montly archive support
- 1 point for montly archive support being optional
- 1 point for being able to change the number of posts that show on the main page
- Search - out of 3 points
- Full-text search in all of post, full 3 points
- Search in title and excerpt, 2 points
- Search in title only, 1 point
- No search, 0 points
- Comments
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- Content
- 1 point for basic font stuff (bold, italic, underline, etc)
- 1 point for being able to change font colours
- 1 point for graphic emoticon support
- 1 point for being able to edit the HTML source of the comment
- 1 point for being able to insert images into comments
- 1 point if the commentor can leave their name
- 1 point if the commentor can leave their email address
- 1 point if the commentor can leave their URL
- 1 point if the commentor can have their information stored
- 1 point if some or all of the information can optionally be made required
- Management
- 1 point if an account is not required to comment
- 1 point if there is SPAM protection
- 1 point if SPAM protection is optional
- 1 point if the blog owner can edit comments
- 1 point if the blog owner can delete comments
- 1 point if the blog owner can block users
- 1 point if the blog owner can unblock users
- 1 point if the post can be seen while commenting
- 1 point if the commentors can rate the post
- 1 point if being able to rate the post can be disabled
- Photo Album
- 1 point for photo album support
- 1 point for being able to categorise pictures
- 1 point if a picture can be put in more than one category
- 1 point if categories can be renamed
- 1 point if categories can be deleted
- 1 point if there are picture-editing features (rotate, resize)
- Storage - out of 3 points
- 30MB or more, full 3 points
- 20MB or more, 2 points
- 10MB or more, 1 point
- Less than 10MB, 0 points
- Syndication
- 1 point if posts can be syndicated in their entirety
- 1 point if post excerpts can be syndicated
- 1 point if comments can be syndicated
- 1 point if RSS is supported
- 1 point if RSS is well-formed
- 1 point if Atom is supported
- 1 point if Atom is well-formed
- 1 point if Email syndication is supported
- 1 point if Email syndication can be by digest
- 1 point if Email syndication can be instant
- Look And Feel
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- General
- 1 point for customisable background colour
- 1 point for customisable background image
- 1 point for customisable sidebar colour
- 1 point for customisable sidebar font
- 1 point for customisable header background
- 1 point for customisable header font
- 1 point for customisable page font
- 1 point for customisable date format
- 1 point for customisable borders
- 1 point for being able to add custom CSS
- Special
- 1 point for being able to rename comments
- 1 point for being able to rename ratings
- 1 point for being able to separate comments into pages
- 1 point for being able to not separate comments into pages
- 1 point for being able to change the number of comments per page
- 1 point for being able to change the width of the content area
- 1 point for being able to change the height of the content area
- 1 point for being able to run music on pages
- 1 point for being able to host music
- 1 point for having a player for the music so that the user can stop, rewind, etc.