NOTICE: If you have no intention of reviewing the new style system, and don't know me in anyway, yet still would like me to give you an activation code so that you can receive a service that most other people pay for for free, at least attempt to offer me something in return instead of expecting a handout from a stranger. If you have nothing to offer in return, at least make an attempt to make your email interesting in some way. Thanks.
LiveJournal has added a great new feature to its long list of recent changes. You can now customize the "read comments" and "post comments" pages of your weblog/journal. This means that, for those of us who stopped using (or never used) LiveJournal because you couldn't maintain the same site look and feel throughout your journal/weblog, this is no longer an issue.
Add this to the weblogs.com pinging, Search Engine friendly URLs, cleaner, shorter URLs in general, recently improved RSS export capabilities, and RSS reader capabilities and LiveJournal is really shaping up. In order for it to be truly usable by any/everyone who currently maintains a weblog/journal using other software, it would need the following features:
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Trackback/Pingback support.
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Categories.
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Actually, LiveJournal already has "memories" which are very similar to categories. The only problem with memories is that they are really geared toward being used AFTER posting by the journal/weblog owner, not by its readers. If the "memories" feature were going to be used as "categories", they would need the following enhancements:
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A cleaner URL.
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Ability to customize memories page.
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Ability to present a list of memory categories on the main journal pages.
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Ability to add an item to a memory category during post creation within the client.
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Ability to list entries cleanly by memory category and have them appear in chronological order acting as a filter on the entries available for reading on the main page.
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Customizable "Thank You" page when posting a comment.
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Entry Search support.
There are a few more that I'd like to see, but the above list is the stuff that is REALLY needed.
Regardless, this is a huge step in the right direction. I urge you all to consider using LiveJournal if you haven't before. If you need an activation code, I have plenty to spare.
