Takes seconds, costs nothing
You can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address. You’ll get your own Onlineforu.info address (like you.onlineforu.info), a selection of great free and customizable designs for your blog (we call them themes), 1 gigabytes of file storage (that’s about 2,500 pictures!) and all the other great features listed here. You can blog as much as you want for free, your blog can be public to the world or private for just your friends.
Dozens of gorgeous themes
You can change the look of your blog with over 60 attractive themes ranging from professional to fun to crazy, and you can switch themes instantly with just a click of a button. Each theme allows you to customize your sidebar using widgets, and several themes let you upload your own photo or image for the header bar. We add themes regularly based on user requests.
Integrated stats system
One of our most popular features is our stats system. It’s designed to give you up-to-the-minute stats on how many people are visiting your blog, where they’re coming from, which posts are most popular, and which search engine terms are sending people to your blog. It’s also available as a plug-in for self-hosted WordPress.
A great tool for writing
It’s easy to create great posts with WordPress.com. Uploading photos is easy, as is using services like Flickr or Photobucket. You can embed videos from YouTube or Google. And we know how frustrating it is to lose hours of work, so when you’re writing we continuously save your post, just in case.
Let’s get those 15 minutes
When you write a post and add relevant tags, we automatically add them to our global tag system and tag surfer, driving new traffic as other people interested in the same topics as you will find your post and leave comments on your blog. You’ll be at the top of our Blogs of the Day in no time.
We kill spam dead
Onlineforu.info uses Akismet, the world’s best comment and trackback spam technology. It blocks spammers from leaving comments on your blog. We also shut down spam blogs that try to sneak onto WordPress.com (so your blog won’t be in the same community as some Viagra-touting site).
Pick up where you left off
If you already have a blog and would like to move it over to WordPress.com, you can import your content from Blogger, LiveJournal, Movable Type, TypePad, or an existing WordPress blog.
Multiple blogs and multiple authors
You can have as many blogs as you want! You’re only limited by your imagination. You can have group blogs with multiple authors who are allowed to post or contribute. This is great for topic blogs for things like books or politics, or just a blog for you and your friends in one place.
Privacy options, including members-only blogs
Onlineforu.info allows you to have a completely public blog, a blog which is public but not included in search engines or our public listings, or a private blog which only members can access. If you want a public blog, but only occasionally post something private, we have a per-post password option, too!
Track replies to your comments
When you’re signed in and leave a comment on Onlineforu.info, we have a special page which notifies you of any followups to your comment so you can easily follow your conversations no matter what blog they’re on.
Not just a blog
Onlineforu.info has a feature called “pages” which allows you to easily create web pages. For example, you could add an “about me” page with your biography, and a link to that page would be automatically added to your sidebar. You can even create an entire web site using pages on Onlineforu.info, with a custom home page and your blog as one of the sub-pages.
No lock-in
You can leave Onlineforu.info any time you want and your content isn’t locked in. We provide a complete XML export of all your posts and comments.
Sidebar widgets for Flickr, del.icio.us, Meebo, and more
You can add “widgets” to your sidebar and rearrange them without touching any HTML code or messing up your blog. Just drag and drop the sidebar widgets around, and instantly you can have fun stuff in your sidebar. We’re adding new widgets all the time based on your feedback and requests.