The Upsaid designers have been working hard on making Upsaid the most advanced online journaling engine available on the web. Many features have been created in order to make your Web Journal as interactive as can be. In addition to the basic journaling feature Upsaid offers, all registered members also receive their own Guestbook, Web Poll, and Hit Counter. If you are curious as how Upsaid's control menu looks like, feel free to log into our demo account and have a look around.

Note that all Upsaid accounts are hosted on our servers and have the following address: http://www.upsaid.com/username

In addition to the basic journaling feature, every Upsaid accounts include a personal GuestBook.
Upsaid's guestbook is full-featured and fully customizable. Following is a list of these features:

• Possibility to receive private entries which only you can see.
• Block IPs (or a range of IPs) from signing your GuestBook.
• Place your "Sign GuestBook" form either on the GuestBook itself or on a separate page.
• Enable or disable html on Guestbook entries.
• Word censorship.
• Total HTML templates control.
• Premade templates.
• Edit GuestBook entries.
• Asides from the basic "Name", "Email", "Webpage", and "Comments" fields, you can add two personalised fields, and chose which ones of all these fields are mandatory or not.

Please click here to view an example of Upsaid GuestBook.

In addition to the basic journaling feature, every Upsaid accounts include a Web poll feature. There is no limit to the amount of web poll which can be created.
Upsaid's Web polls are full-featured and fully customizable. Following is a list of these features:

• Possibility to include up to ten answer choices.
• Display results on a separate page.
• Allow your visitors to post comments on a Web poll.
• Block IPs from voting or posting comments on your Poll.
• Reset Poll results.
• Total HTML templates control.
• Premade templates.

Please click here to view an example of Web poll results page.

Another interesting feature Upsaid offers is the Page Hit Counter. Once again, you have more control over your Hit Counter than any other hit counter service offers. The most interesting feature probably the fact that you can yourself chose the images which compose your counter's numbers, so you have total control on what your counter will look like. Of course, there is no obligation to use an image-based counter; a simple text based counter is also available.

Other Hit Counter features include:

• Chose whether leading zeros are displayed or not. (e.g. 215 or 00215)
• Chose how long the refresh detection takes effect. This gives you the possibility to know how many "visitors" you get, as opposed to simple page hits.
• Chose whether the counter is incremented even if it is not displayed on your journal.

The fact this content is included in separate templates allow you to easily update this part of your journal without having to edit your Main Pages templates.

Following is a detailed example on how this feature can be used. Let's assume that you want to display some basic information about yourself on your sidebar. The first step would be to enter the following values one of the Upsaid columns:

Once that is done, edit this column's template to give it the right format:

All there is left to do is type the appropriate variable in the sidebar template where you want this column to appear:

There are three different display modes, which are:

• Random : Select this option to have your quotes randomly selected every time a person views your journal.

• Sequence : Selecting this option will make your quotes to be displayed in the same order you have added them to your quotes list.

• Periodical : This option is identical to 'Sequence', except that instead of changing the quote each time the page is displayed, it will change it every given amount of time. An example of use for this option would be a 'quote/joke of the day' display.

http://www.upsaid.com/post.php

When the Upsaid account is created, it's Main Page Sidebar already include a link which make this page appear in a popup. This popup can also be brought up very quickly by using a browser's "Links" feature, as illustrated below:

Please refer to the Upsaid Control menu for information on how this can be achieved.

Upsaid gives you the possibility to post entries via the use of e-mails. This will prove very useful when you are away from home, and the computer you are using doesn't support cookies, preventing you from logging into your control menu.

Thanks to the xml-rpc technology, it is possible to post, edit or delete entries through the use of (free) third party softwares, such as w.bloggar.

If you are interested in knowing what xml-rpc is exactly and how it works, please head to the official xml-rpc website.

This feature allows you to quickly replace a word with another word in all or some of your entries. This should be very helpful if you tend to do the same typos over and over.

When doing a "Search and replace", you can chose in which parts of the entries (title and/or body) the replacements will be made, and in which author(s)'s entries they will be made.

In addition to your journal and GuestBook, Upsaid allows you to create other HTML pages which aren't necessarily related to your journal. You can place anything you wish on these pages; you may for example create a web page dedicated to yourself or your interests. Needless to mention, you have total control over these page's HTML code, and can apply premade templates to match with your journal's layout. Up to thirty extra pages can be created.

Thanks to Upsaid's built-in private messaging system, you can keep in touch with your fellow Upsaid members without leaving your control menu. Non-members can also send you private messages, though you will not be able to reply to these messages.

For your security, you may block certain Upsaid members from sending your messages, or even block all members and / or non-members.

Upsaid offers a high level of layout customization. This implies a great number of templates and form fields which must be filled properly in order to make your layout look the way you want it to. This can be a little confusing for Upsaid novices, so we have written tutorials which should help familiarize with layout templates.

Upsaid's privacy options include :

• Blocking specific IPs, ranges of IPs, or Upsaid users from posting entries on your feedback forms.

• Blocking specific IPs, ranges of IPs, or Upsaid users from viewing your journal.

• Locking your journal with a password.

If you experiment any trouble using Upsaid's features, or discover a bug or malfunction, you have the possibility to send a private message to the Upsaid staff, who will do their best trying to help you, or fix the problem. We usually respond within 24 hours.

All Upsaid account come with 5 MegaBytes of web space which can be used to store images, HTML files, etc. This is perfect for users who wish to built their own layouts and need to use custom images, or for users who just need to include images in their journal entries. The fact that you can upload .html or .css files can also come in very handy!

Upsaid gives you total control over your Web Journal templates, with no obligation of displaying any kind of ads!

The HTML code is entered into various text areas accessed from the Upsaid control menu.

One of the great features you can only find at Upsaid is the capability of displaying two different entry templates on the same page. This may sound a little confusing, but this example of template should make it clearer. As you can see, the background color of entries posted on Oct. 24 is different from the background color of entries posted on Oct. 23.

Over 60 variables can be used in order to link the various templates that can compose your web journal. If you wish to get a clearer picture of how Upsaid templates are built, you should have a look at our templates tutorials.

If you aren't big on HTML coding, fear not, there are many premade templates from which you can chose from! Our designers are always working on creating new templates, so check back often for new additions!

The "Multiple authors" option allows you to add co-authors for your journal. Co-authors have their own passwords, and can only perform the actions you allow them to.

The TagBoard is another great and fun way to interact with your visitors.

Upsaid's TagBoard features include:

• 100% HTML customizable templates: You are in total control of your TagBoard's look, to the last pixel.

• Intelligent refreshing: The IFrame which contains the Tags is automatically refreshed in all browsers viewing it, only if a new Tag was added, or if a Tag was deleted.

• Alternating Tag entry template.

• Smileys. (This feature can be disabled)

• Allow Tag authors to delete their own Tags.

• URL / E-mail recognition: Web address and E-mail addresses are automatically turned into links.

• HTML control: You can chose whether simple HTML tags (such are I, B, U, A) are accepted or not.

• Clone prevention: Prevent users from posting with a name that has been used by another person in the last 20 minutes.

• Purging: This feature allows you to have old Tags automatically deleted.

• Flood control: Users can not post more than one Tag in less than 15 seconds.

• IP banning: Prevent users from posting on your TagBoard by blocking their IP addresses.

View an example of TagBoard
(Note that this example is not active, not Tag can be added)

The "Layout randomisation" feature allows you to create additional layouts for you journal. When a visitor views your journal, one of these layouts is randomly selected and displayed.
A list of your layouts can also be displayed on your journal to allow your visitors to chose which layout to display.

Upsaid is the only web journaling tool which allows the user to create his / her own personalized date templates.
This feature give you the possibility to display the weekdays, month days, and months in any language, or even display an image instead of text.

Here is an example of how to customize your date templates:

This option allows you to create a list of e-mail addresses to which an email is sent each time you post a new entry. You can choose whether the entry is included in this e-mail or not.

You also have to possibility to be notified by e-mail when someone posts a note on one of your entries, or signs your guestbook.

This option allows you to create a calendar of the current month. Every day of the month on which at least one entry has been posted is a link to either:

- the most recent entry posted on this day, or:
- an archives page which include all entries posted on this day.

You also have a total control over this calendar's templates, and it can be displayed on both your journal main page or your archives list page.

Here is an example of calendar:

This feature allows your to create backups of your HTML templates, which can be restored later on, as many times as you wish. Use this feature if you are afraid of screwing your templates when manipulating them, or if you wish to keep record of all the layouts you have created / used.

You can create up to 40 templates backups, which can include any of your templates, including Main Page, GuestBook, Web Poll, etc. templates.

If you find your visitors curse a little too much when posting comments, signing your GuestBook, or tagging your TagBoard, you may use this feature to prevent these curses from being displayed.

The 'Alias username' allows you to use a second username, in addition to your original one. This means that your journal will have two different addresses, which are:

http://www.upsaid.com/username/ and http://www.upsaid.com/alias/

You can change your Alias username anytime you wish, as long as this username isn't already in use by another user.

This feature allows you to divide your entry into two parts. By doing this, you may display the the first part of the entry on your main page, as an introduction to the general entry. You can then display a "More" HTML link at the end of this entry's first part, linking to the comments page, which would include both parts of the entry.

Please click here to see an example of template using extended entries.

This option allows you to create and download text files which include your journal entries, in order to keep backups.

If you start typing an entry and don't have the time to finish it, no problem: you can just save what you've typed as a draft, and finish typing your entry later.

The "Entry Extras" are used to change a text that is displayed on the entry templates. You have the possibility to use two "Entry Extras" for each entry. You can also apply default values to these extras by going to "Update extra values" on the control menu. When adding a new entry, if the "Use" box is not checked, it will simply remove any text that has been entered. (The extra value will thus be displayed, but will simply be empty)

Use example: You want to show what music you are listening while you were typing this entry. Then go to "Update Extra values" and type something like "Currently listening: " in any of the "Entry Extra" fields. Now every time you go to "Add a new entry", "Currently listening: " will show on the "Entry Extra 1" (or "Entry Extra 2") field, and all you have to do is type the name of the song you are listening to.

Upsaid allows you to post entries in the past or future. You can modify an entry's date and time at any time, and set it to anytime between 1970 and 2038.

Allow you visitors to E-Mail your journal entries to their friends, by displaying an 'E-Mail this entry' link on your entry templates.