Hostway Corporation, a global leader in Web hosting and managed services, today announces the launch of SiteBlog -- an easy-to-use blogging tool that's free to the company's new and existing Shared Hosting and Advantage Dedicated Server customers. In tune to the popular blogging phenomenon on the Internet, SiteBlog provides an abundance of features that appeal to customers' needs ranging from large corporations to personal diaries.

"We at Hostway are pleased to offer our customers the ability to add blogging to their Web sites -- for free," says John Lee, vice president of marketing at Hostway Corporation. "With this easy and graphically appealing tool, our customers can communicate their message, whether business focused or personal opinion -- in a more interactive, real-time medium."

SiteBlog is now available at http://www.hostway.com/siteblog/ and allows Hostway customers to create and maintain an online journal, which can be linked from their regular Web sites. Customers may create unique profiles and choose from 12 changeable design themes to appeal to their specific tastes and blogging objectives.

With what-you-see-is-what-you-get postings, users may clearly and easily add information onto their blogs using various colors, fonts, numbered lists and bullets. They may save drafts or publish work immediately, in addition to posting comments and pings on a per-post basis. SiteBlog also provides the means to maintain customizable categories and add standard HTML links within these groupings.

Users can feel confident about SiteBlog's security features, which assure that only intended content appears on their blogs. Customers may take advantage of password-protected posting options, the ability to maintain comment rules, and the preference to publish readers' feedback automatically -- or only with express administrator's approval. They can also manage comment-spam rules and require that their blogging submitters leave email addresses for follow-up purposes.

SiteBlog has the ability to arrange for automatic updates and communication with other blogs and blog trackers via an email address for email, pingbacks and trackbacks. Customers may also add and customize RSS feed links to pull in headlines from news sites and other blogs.