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Service Name: Blogger
Member limits: Unlimited members allowed.
Customization allowed: They offer some templates which you can make some color changes to and if you know CSS you can customize your blog. There are also a lot of sites that offer free templates which you can copy and paste into the editor but you have to take into account that after you use someone else's template you have to make updates in the CSS. So if you're not familiar with CSS you will have a harder time making changes.
Private blogs allowed: Yes
URL: www.blogger.com
Fee: Free
Ease of use: To me this is the easiest blogging service. There is only one down fall though, you can't create categories to organize your post.
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Service Name: WordPress
Member limits: The free service is limited to 35 users.
Customization allowed: They offer some templates but you can make minor changes to them. To fully customize your blog you have to upgrade to a paid service.
Private blogs allowed: Yes
URL: www.wordpress.com
Fee: Free but they offer a paid services which removes the member limitations, allows customization, and more.
Ease of use: I'm not to fond of the navigation in the editor, but after you get used to it, the editor is pretty easy. Another thing to take into account, if you want to categorize your post you have to pick a template that allows for categorization.
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Service Name: 21Publish and 21Classes
Member limits: You have a limit of 200 MB of space and 100 members. Each member can create their own blog and the storage space can be set by the administrator. You can either give everyone 2mb of space or set it to divide the 200mb equally amongst the members allowing the more active members to use more space. You can increase the storage space and the number of members by upgrading your account to a paid account.
Customization allowed: Yes, you can add your own CSS layout or use of the existing layouts and update the CSS style in that layout.
Private blogs allowed: Not for the free account.
URL: www.21publish.com and www.21classes.com
Fee: They have a free account that includes everything in this review, and they also have paid accounts to increase number of members allowed and storage limits.
Ease of you: I like this service very much, unfortunately they don't give much space but they have really cool features available such as star rating, guest book, allows for mobile blogging, offer photo blogs, current mood and you can customize the look and feel of the site.
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Service Name: Xanga
Member limits: You can't remove ads on the free account.
Customization allowed: With the new upgrade you can now use themes, modify the themes with a couple of clicks or customize the CSS.
Private blogs allowed: No but you have a lot of privacy settings you can play with.
URL: www.xanga.com
Fee: Free
Ease of use: Easy, and it's in-line with HI5 when it comes to navigation and updating your page.
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Service Name: Live Journal
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