diaryland.com

Advantages: Win friends and influence people
Disadvantages: Make enemies and piss people off

These days the Internet is full to bursting with journalling, diary writing, and blogging sites. If you haven’t come across one, you will almost certainly have read about them in your newspaper or favourite magazine. Many of the weekend papers carry lists and reviews of favourite online journals. On the off-chance you haven’t heard of this phenomenon, this is basically how it works. The site hosts your journal, and you update it every day (or as ...
...and blogs (short for web log) range from random musings updated throughout the day, to lists of sites visited, to obsessive teenage angst, to tales of sexual conquest, to earnest attempts to analyse the world, to straight recording of the lives of people in every corner of the globe. They come in all styles from the literary, to the funny, through the ponderous to the tongue in cheek. Diaryland is a site where you can sign up for your own free online ... Read review

Advantages: Ease of use, freedom of speech, strong community
Disadvantages: Can be addictive, may need some basic html skill

Oh darlings, pen and paper are sooooo passé! What you need is an online space in which to vent. Voila, log on and you'll soon find that you're spoilt for choice. As a keen writer myself my starting point has always been random diaries and journals in which I did EVERYTHING from rant about how terrible my day was to scraps of poems, short stories and incomprehensible doodles. Well, I'm a 21st century gal, so I decided to upgrade and set my musings ...
...plethora of hosts, but Diaryland would have to be my favourite. THE BASICS Diaryland offers you your own username and choice of a few basic templates. These are nice and simple, and do the job well, but if you don't like them, don't worry. You can easily create your own design if you're a html whizz, with a clear and easy to use editing section. If you're not so hot with this skill then there are plenty of people who are that are willing to help. ... Read review

Advantages: Fairly simple, fun, addictive, many options
Disadvantages: Failing serves, HTML skills may wish to be aquired

...to be functioning again. Diaryland.com does offer a lot though, including a GOLD club. In this, you receive many benefits, including banners displayed on several diaryland.com sites, advertising your diary! (For all of you who wish to be heard.) And as cool as this feature is, it does cost $30.00, which I personally think is a little overpriced. The system is fun, cute and entertaining, but not worth $30.00 a month. ... Read review

Advantages: User-friendly interface to database
Disadvantages: Unreliable

I have been with Diaryland as a "Supergold" member for a little less than a year. Supergold includes a comment system, 30mb for images, and 10,000 banner ads that other members will see randomly as they surf. Diaryland accounts are totally customizable. My account has totally custom designed HTML, Javascripts, and graphics. It took some time to learn enough to code it myself, but that was half the fun. The best thing about Diaryland is that your ...
...to make writing new entries a snap. Just type in the window, and the text is added to your index.htm page. A new feature allows you to host an individual domain name and show the content of your diaryland account. For instance, if you were "http://me.diaryland.com/", you could now be "http://www.me.com/" It's an additional charge, but it's worth it for those of us on Diaryland that have robust sites. The way diaries become interlinked and commented ... Read review