We provide free and premium feature-rich, WordPress powered blogs that are dedicated to the organization of Wayzata information. Our service is open to anyone living in the Wayzata area, or anyone with an interest in Wayzata Life, Politics, Business, Fashion, Food, Travel, Culture, Sports and so on. All you need to get started is an email address. Sign Up Now.

We couldn’t possibly list all our features. So here’s a few of them that makes us stand out from all the other blog services out there.

It’s free and easy!

Normally to run a blog you’d need to pay for a hosting account, a domain, a database and have knowledge of a whole encyclopedia worth of technical black magic to get it all working together just right. This is where Wayzata.com comes in. We’ll handle all the black magic for you and you’ll only have to worry about selecting the look of your blog and posting great content to it.

Your Blog Address

You’ll get your own Wayzata.com address (like yourname.wayzata.com) or use your own.  Businesses have the opportunity to utilize custom domains for a monthly fee that delivers exceptional value.

100+ themes to choose from

We’re very picky about our themes. From the thousands available, we’ve been cherry picking only the very best for our users. Each theme will allow you to add or remove sidebar widgets. Some will allow you to upload custom image headers, while others will give you controls to fine tune the look of your blog. Switching between our themes is as easy as a click of a button.

Custom Domains

If you are really serious about your online identity you’ll be able to use your own domain name, like yourname.com. We’ll continue to host your blog as normal, but your readers will find you by going to yourname.com instead of yourname.wayzata.com. Best of all you’ll get your posts and activity shared at the Wayzata.com home page–the most active Wayzata social network on the planet. Wayzata.com lets personal users, charitbale organizations, and groups and organizations use this for free.  Businesses can select a custom domain ala cart–or get it with premium services on Wayzata.com. Call Dan to talk about your marketing needs in the Wayzata community today 952-473-5800.

You’ll be part of the online Wayzata Community

By joining us you will automatically contribute to a community of bloggers like yourself. Together the community will be able to provide an unmatched view of the Wayzata area from the perspective of the people who know it best. When you publish a blog entry with relevant tags, we automatically add them to our global tag system which is shown on the front page. So the act of tagging your entries will drive new traffic to your blog as other people interested in the same topics as you will find your entry very easily and leave comments on your blog.

As a reader, would you read a plain-ole news report about let’s say James J. Hill Days or a tornado passing through the Wayzata. Or would you rather read a dozen blogs of people who actually experienced the event, took pictures and decided to blog about it. Want to blog about your sports team, or collaborate with other parents, students and more? It’s easy!

You create as many blogs as you want using one account. There’s no limitations but we do not tolerate spam. You can also have a group blog where you and your friends can collaborate and contribute to one blog together.

Import from Blogspot, WordPress.com, Typepad and more

If you already have a blog elsewhere and would like to make us your new home then that couldn’t be any easier to accomplish. Using the tools provided you can quickly migrate your blog posts and their comments from Blogger (Blogspot), WordPress, TypePad, LiveJournal or from an RSS Feed.

If you need help, don’t hesitate to contact us. Our support team will pay extra special attention to users who migrate to our system to ensure that your existing readers find you after you’ve moved.

Tons of add-ons

To make things easy all newly created blogs come basic with just the tools necessary to create and manage a successful blog.

For those who want more, we’ve got dozens of extra features that will make your blog stand out from the rest including beautiful flash and slide show photo galleries, online polls, event calendars, integration with popular services like Feedburner and Facebook and much more as part of our premium services. Wayzata.com also offers custom design work, as well as classes on social media training including blogs!

Widgets Galore

We provide sidebar widgets for almost everything worth using on the web – Twitter, Flickr, Meebo, del.icio.us, last.fm, Vodpod, MyBlogLog, Feedburner and more.

You’re guaranteed hours of tweaking fun and there’s no HTML to mess around with. You can easily drag and drop these widgets around to manipulate them however you want.

Flexible environment with lots of storage and unlimited bandwidth

Our platform, WordPress is a very flexible environment for web publishing. With our help it can handle e-Commerce, forums, advanced content management and more.

You’ll be able to upload unlimited photos and videos. You won’t have to worry about your bandwidth running out either.

Reliable service & great support!

If you’ve got a question or problem with your blog, then contact us and our support team will quickly solve it for you. Almost immediate support is active M-F.

Your blog is safe with us!

All our blogs are served from and backed up to multiple locations in the United States. We have gone to great lengths to ensure blogs hosted by Wayzata.com are always readily and speedily accessible.

How we provide all this for free!

As you can imagine, we’ve got some pretty hefty bills to pay every month-end. Like other providers, we’ve chosen to support our service through advertising and premium services rather than charging you for it. Small ad units may appear on your blog and styled in such a way so that it is not obstructive to you or your readers.  Additionally, for users who want premium features like custom domain mapping, custom theme development and more, we offer these features at an monthly fee that delivers exceptional value, as well as consulting and cutom development on an hourly basis.  Call Dan at 952-473-5800 to discuss your premium Wayzata.com feature needs.

Sounds too good to be true?

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