All BlogHarbor weblogs are fully featured, the only differences in our weblog plans are disk space and bandwidth. Here is a summary of some of the top features of the BlogHarbor service:

Photo Albums	Easily upload and manage your digital images. With automatic thumbnail generation and resizing and up to 2 GB of disk space, BlogHarbor Photo Albums are the best way to share your digital images with family and friends.
Domain Name Mapping	BlogHarbor makes it easy to use your own domain name for your weblog address. You can even add business-class email for your BlogHarbor-hosted domain name.
Category support	Arrange your articles and photos by category, you can choose to let articles "bubble up" from a sub-category and appear on the Main Page, or your articles can appear only in their own category.
Import/Export	Import articles, categories, and comments from Movable Type/Typepad and Blogger weblogs, or export your weblog articles as a compressed XML archive.
Mobile Blogging	Post articles or photos by email or from your mobile phone! Snap a photo from your cameraphone and have it appear on the web in seconds!
Multilingual Support	BlogHarbor supports international character sets, allowing you to publish your weblog in any language.
Polls and Surveys	Polls and surveys are a great way to add interactivity to your weblog.
Slideshows	This new optional feature for Photo Albums layouts which will display a Slideshow of all of the photos in that album. See our demo weblog for an example of the Slideshow feature.
Web Stats	BlogHarbor weblogs feature advanced Web Stats providing you with detailed information about visitors to your weblog, how they found you, and what they are reading on your weblog.
RSS	Syndicate your site using the RSS format. BlogHarbor even includes support for category-based RSS by generating a separate RSS feed for each Category. Essentially, this means that every BlogHarbor site provides a nearly unlimited number of weblogs...
Secure RSS	Syndication with authentication: your users can use their RSS newsreader to browse and access password-protected headlines on your site. Your BlogHarbor weblog generates RSS feeds dynamically, sending out one RSS feed for a public user and another separate RSS feed for an authenticated user with special access privileges!
Add RSS Headlines to your Weblog	Display RSS headlines from other weblogs and websites on your blog.
Multiple Authors	BlogHarbor weblogs support Multiple Authors: allow other authors the ability to post articles to your blog, or only to specific categories. Create a group weblog!
Automatically Ping Weblogs.com/Blo.gs	Let the 'blogosphere' know you've updated your weblog by notifying the Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, Blogrolling.com, or Technorati services. BlogHarbor can notify these services automatically whenever you update your weblog.
Media Review Templates	Easy to use templates for posting your Book, Music, and Movie Reviews.
Movable Type/Blogger API Standard-compliant	BlogHarbor weblogs support the Movable Type/Blogger API, which allows you to post to your BlogHarbor weblog using RSS tools such as w.bloggar, Newzcrawler, or NetNewswire. These tools allow advanced bloggers increased flexibility when posting articles. They can allow you to create articles while you are not connected to the Internet, and save them locally so that you can post them the next time you are connected.
File Manager	Upload Word files, PDF files, ZIP files, any type of file. You're not limited to uploading images! The File Manager allows you to upload files to your weblog using your web browser.
FTP Access	In addition to the web-based File Manager, you can upload files to your weblog storage area via FTP.
Security	Protect your privacy by restricting access to areas of your weblog. Allow only users of your choosing to access restricted areas of your weblog. BlogHarbor's advanced security model allows you to grant permissions to Users and Groups of users.
Trackbacks	See who's linking to your articles, and notify other weblogs when you're linking to them! Your articles will all have a Trackback URL which allows other bloggers to notify your site when they link to you. And you can enter a Trackback URL when you write an article on your site referring to an article another blogger has written - and your Trackback will appear on their article!
Comments	Allow visitors to post comments to your weblog, either anonymously or after providing a username and password. Tired of comment spam? Then you can require authentication before permitting your readers to comment on your articles.
Look and Feel	Customize the look of your blog using built-in themes. Advanced web designers can modify CSS stylesheets and HTML templates to make your weblog truly unique.
Search engine is built-in	There's no need to configure or install any CGI software to allow your readers to search your site.
Interactive Forms	Create interactive forms for your readers and receive the results of the HTML form submission by email.
Disk Space	Get ready for this - you'll get 1 GB - that's 1000 MB - with our Standard Account and a whopping 2 GB with the Plus Account! That's a lot of space to store your digital images!
Online Now	Sign up now, your weblog will be online immediately! Although your Free Trial is limited to 100 MB disk space, all of the features listed here are available even to Free Trial weblogs! Get started right away!

Easy to use, stylish ready-made templates are available for you to use on your BlogHarbor weblog. For your reference, screenshots of the 36 templates currently available are available.   more »

SQUID Caching Servers Deployed
New Caching Servers known as SQUID servers have been deployed on our network in order to improve the overall efficiency of the system and speed up delivery of your blog pages. These servers will be enabled during a maintenance window on May 13, 2006. The caching servers allow blog pages that have not changed to be served by a caching server rather than accessing the database directly for each access request.

The SQUID Caching Servers continually check your blog content to verify that it has not changed. It if has changed then it retrieves the most updated content which in turn becomes the new cache. If the content has not changed then SQUID continues to serve the cached content.

These Caching Servers will serve cached content for 1 minute, which means that an unauthenticated user may see data that is up to 1 minute old. Authenticated users, i.e. users who have logged in to your blog, will always bypass the Caching Servers and access the system directly.

Publishers can ensure that they are viewing a non-cached version of the blog by logging in at the blog itself since all authenticated users are accessing the non-cached version of the site. Publishers also have another option when logged into the control panel: clicking on the View Blog link at the top of the control panel allows publishers to bypass the cache and directly view the live database. This allows you to easily view the real-time version of your after posting an article to your blog.

This page shows some screenshots from our Webmail 4.0 application, included in every one of our Business Class Email Hosting packages.

Composing a New Message in Webmail 4.0



Creating a New Event for your Calendar in Webmail 4.0.



Calendaring in Webmail 4.0

RSS will change the way you use the Internet. That may be a bold statement, but once you begin to understand and use RSS, you may view it as a serious understatement.   more »

A number of enhancements have been made to the service. Here is a summary of some of the new features added yesterday:

Import/Export	The ability to import from Movable Type or Typepad and Blogger weblogs has been added. Additionally, it is now possible to export your weblog articles as a compressed XML archive. Access the Import/Export features from the Settings tab in your Blog Admin control panel.
Slideshows	This new optional feature places an icon near the top of group by day and grid photo album layouts which will display a Slideshow of all of the photos in that album. See our demo weblog for an example of the Slideshow feature. To enable this feature for all of the Photo Albums on your weblog, check the box labeled Enable slideshows in the Settings tab of your Blog Admin Control Panel.
Display recently updated albums	It is now possible to show thumbnails from recent albums on regular categories, including the Main Page. This feature can be enabled from the Display recently updated albums checkbox on the Category Settings page in your Blog Control Panel. Options include how many recent albums and how many columns/rows of thumbnails for each album to display.
Comment Subscriptions	It is now possible for authenticated users to subscribe to comments as well as articles. Once you have logged into a particular weblog, you will be able to subscribe to receive email notification for every comment on a particular article, category or the entire blog.
Length of syndication file	This new option in the Settings tab of the Blog Admin Control Panel allows you to indicate how many entries to include in the RSS syndication feed.
minithumb JS Photo album layout	A new Photo albums layout type called minithumb JS is now available. This new layout displays a set of thumbnails and shows the sized image below or next to the thumbnails. Javascript is used to update the sized image when your reader clicks on one of the thumbnails.

A new Component is available for your BlogHarbor weblog, the Category Tree component.

The Category Tree is an alternative to the Topics component, which can also display a list of the Categories available on your weblog. Unlike the Topics component, The Category Tree will be displayed on all of your pages, even sub-categories. The tree will expand to show the relationship of the category you are currently browsing to any of its parent categories.

The screenshot below shows how the Category Tree looks when browsing the Animals sub-category of the Photos category on our BlogHarbor demo weblog:

If your weblog was created before 3/31/2004, your weblog likely uses the Topics component. If you would like to replace the Topics component with the Category Tree component, read this article from our Users Manual which explains how to add and remove components from your blog's layout.

BlogHarbor supports international international character sets, allowing you to publish your weblog in any language.

The screenshot below is an example of an article posted to a BlogHarbor weblog using Japanese characters:

Note how it is possible to use languages such as Japanese in both the subject and the content of your article! You can also use international character sets for the titles of your Categories and Components.

BlogHarbor weblogs feature advanced Web Stats enabling you to analyze traffic to your web site, providing you with detailed information about visitors to your weblog, how they found you, and what they are reading on your weblog.   more »

One of the downright coolest features of your BlogHarbor weblog has got to be the Mobile Blogging - or Moblogging - capability.   more »

Have you ever wanted a search engine for your site, but didn't understand how to program CGI scripts?

Your BlogHarbor site includes a search engine: there's no need to configure or install anything to allow your readers to search your site!

Try it - on the sidebar to the right is a Search function. Enter a term and see if it has already been written about here on our Demo site.