Windows Live Spaces | Personalise your online world

Popular web-based email companies like Yahoo! Mail, AIM, and Windows Live (Hotmail), all offer blogs for their users as an added feature to their signing as a member. Yahoo prides itself in its 360° blog, AIM for its myAOL Blog, and Windows Live with Windows Live Spaces. I took quite an interest in the Windows Live Spaces blog so I created my own “space” under my Hotmail account and decided to give it a shot if it was a potential blog site for me since I constantly write my daily accounts almost every week. In the long run though, I got tired of it for a few reasons but still thought it was an interesting blog to pursue for those who are Windows Live fans.

One word I can describe about Windows Live Spaces: small. The fonts of the text, the links, the buttons, were all so tiny and compact that it would seem like it would take days to actually fill the entire front page of my Space page up. Though I usually prefer small font sizes as compared to humongous bulging fonts, this can be a problem for those who have bad eyesight or who don’t like to see a lot of empty spaces in their pages and are compelled to blog everyday just to fill the gap. The homepage when directed is only consumed by half and when brought to your personal Windows Live Space page, there’s a big empty area under which are your dashboard controls and on the left and right sides compact navigation boxes where your links are. I guess this aspect of a blog site affects my wanting to write blog entries; I would prefer that Windows Live increases the size of their fonts and maximize the space by adding probably more modules or simply rearranging the boxes and menus. For those who love to blog and enjoy the comforts of so much empty space staring at them, then by all means use Windows Live Space as your official blog.

On the brighter side of things, so far Windows Live Space has added interesting features to the blog such as themes, interesting modules, different ways to organize them, and a compact navigation bar where people can keep track of the blog entries every month and view or update their profiles every now and then. You can also share photos, invite your friends to join and be a part of your network, and create fun lists that show how interesting a person you are. Lists can consist of anything, like your top 5 favorite car brands or your Christmas wishlist. You can edit your profiles as many times as you want and can choose if your friends and contacts can view your profile information or not. Overall I would give Windows Live Spaces as a blog hosting faction of Windows Live a rating of 8 out of 10. It works in every other aspect except the teeny tiny font size used for text, links, and buttons, which may prove difficult for those who don’t have 20/20 vision.

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