No Advertising

We don’t place advertising on your site and we never will. Some “free” website providers force advertising to be placed on your site, but you won’t find that around here. In fact, we’ve even integrated with Google AdSense to allow you to easily enable advertising – as simple as entering your email address – letting you earn money from your site!

Publish to Your Own Domain

If you already own your own domain you can use it with SteerSpace, at no charge. You can publish to your own domain name (ie. www.example.com instead of example.SteerSpace.com) and we’ll still host your website for free. You have the option to purchase a domain directly within SteerSpace which we instantly setup, or you can configure a domain that you already own!

Content Elements

Add pictures, videos, music and audio, documents, maps, and photo galleries. Sell products, accept online bookings, create a contact form, or arrange your pages in multiple columns. Drag on slideshows, files, forums, games, RSS feeds, or any other HTML embed code — all by simply dragging and dropping.

Powerful Blogging Features Powered by SteerSpace

Post your thoughts and receive comments using our super slick blogging features powered by the SteerSpace platform. SteerSpace supports an unlimited number of blogs within your website, with full comment moderation features allowing an open, moderated, or closed conversation.

Powerful SEO (Search Engine Optimized) themes and editor

Our core advantage is our stunningly easy drag & drop website editor. Videos, pictures, maps, and text are added by simply dragging them to your website. We love it when new customers are totally surprised at how straightforward it is to build a website with SteerSpace – no HTML or technical skills required!

A Variety of Content Elements

If you can imagine it, you can do it with SteerSpace. Add pictures, videos, music and audio, documents, maps, and photo galleries. Sell products, accept online bookings, create a contact form, or arrange your pages in multiple columns. Drag on slideshows, files, forums, games, RSS feeds, or any other HTML embed code — all by simply dragging and dropping.

Full standards compliance

We have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of SteerSpace generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today’s browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less.

No rebuilding

Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.

Easy Pages

Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static “About” page that you manage through SteerSpace. For an idea of how powerful this is, the entire SteerSpace.org site could be run off SteerSpace alone. (We don’t for technical mirroring reasons.)

Links

Links allow you to create, maintain, and update any number of blogrolls through your administration interface. This is much faster than calling an external blogroll manager.

Themes

SteerSpace comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake.  You can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you switch with a single click. Have a new design every day.

Cross-blog communication tools

SteerSpace fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and we are committed to supporting future standards as they develop.

Comments

Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.

Spam protection

Out of the box SteerSpace comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further.

Full user registration

SteerSpace has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.

Password Protected Posts

You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.

XML-RPC interface

SteerSpace currently supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API.

Workflow

You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.

Typographical niceties — SteerSpace uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands.

Intelligent text formatting

If you’ve dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks before you know why they have a bad name: if you have any sort of HTML they butcher it by putting tags after every new line indiscriminately, breaking your formatting and validation. Our function for this intelligently avoids places where you already have breaks and block-level HTML tags, so you can leave it on without worrying about it breaking your code.

Multiple authors

SteerSpace’ highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.

Bookmarklets

Cross-browser bookmarklets make it easy to publish to your blog or add links to your blogroll with a minimum of effort.

Ping away

SteerSpace supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines.

And We Are Just Getting Started!

We’re only scratching the surface of everything SteerSpace has to offer. Customize your favicon, set your footer message, tweak advanced SEO settings, integrate with Google Webmaster Tools, password protect pages and much more. There are countless other features we don’t have room to mention here that you’ll have to discover for yourself. You’ve made it this far – what are you waiting for?