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(http://singpolyma.blog.com/)
Full Review
Overall Rating: 4.2
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21 July 2005
Content Control (5.8)
Ads
5.0
One untargeted banner ad: you cannot change the position or look.
Storage Space
N/A
Amount of storage space currently unknown. The information is not available on the site. Awaiting response from tech support.
Visible Content
6.5
Has customisable title and subtitle, webring support (within the service), guestbook support, as well as support for a profile and display picture. There is no support for custom links unless you pay. There is no direct support for custom HTML, see the full review for a way to overcome this. There is Amazon Associates support, but with posts, not to put in the site.
Posts (3.8)
Content
3.0
No support for basic fonts or colours. You cannot change the font face of a post. There is graphic emoticon support. You can edit the HTML code of a post. There is not separate excerpt. You can insert images, but there is not image hosting.
Editing
7.0
Posts on Xanga do not even have titles, nor is there support for categories or excerpts. You can fully edit the body of a post. You can also delete and undelete a post. You can turn comments on and off both at writing and after posting.
Accessibility
1.5
There is not support for categorising posts, however there is archive support (which is not optional). You cannot change the number of posts that display on the main page. There is a site-wide post search, but no search for your own blog.
Comments (4.5)
Content
3.5
There is no support for basic font features or font colours. There is graphic emoticon support, but you have to know the text shortcuts (and they are non-standard, ie ;) is :winky:). There is no support for inserting images. The comment box will accept most HTML input into it, but this is not noted anywhere. A commentor manditorially leaves their Xanga account name (which also gives access to their Xanga site). If you are set to be kept logged in then it remembers your information.
Management
5.5
An account is required to comment. There is no SPAM protection option. The blog owner cannot edit comments, but comments may be deleted. Users can be both blocked and unblocked. The post can be seen while commenting. Commentors can rate the post, and the ability to rate the post can be disabled, but only along with comments.
Photo Album (0.0)
There is no photo album support or image hosting on Xanga.
Syndication (5.5)
Syndication on Xanga may take place via email or RSS 0.91. Email syndication may happen in either digest or instataneous form. Comments may only be syndicated to the blog owner. The RSS syndication is not linked to or mentioned anywhere on the site, but may be found at http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=USERNAME. The resulting feed is rather poorly formed and will not work in some feed readers or with some services.
Look And Feel (6.0)
General
7.0
The background colour and image are both customisable with Xanga, as is the sidebar colour (but not the sidebar font). The header background and font are both fully customisable, as is the general page font. Date format is not customisable. You can create custom borders. There is no support for custom CSS.
Special
5.0
There is support for music, as well as resizing the width of the content area of a page. However there is no hosting for the music, nor can you change the height of the content area. You can both rename comments and ratings. Comments are separated into pages, and you cannot turn this off or change how many comments are on each page.
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