Named by Forbes as one of the 13 best travel sites on the Web and the best for personal travel blogs -
"We like MyTripJournal.com for its colorful and easy-to-use features like "Find a Friend's Web Site" and the customizable world map."
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"It is map-driven and very visual ... if you haven't seen this product, it's like a travel blog on steroids!"
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Travel Blog vs Personal Travel Website: what's the difference? |
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MyTripJournal's platform has been called a 'travel blog on steroids'.
There are a number of key differences between a travel blog and a Personal Travel Website. First and foremost, while a blog is maintained for the purpose of recording opinions and thoughts, Personal Travel Websites are focused on recording the user’s experiences. This is made possible through a number of tools which allow your trip to be shared with others and preserved for posterity.
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The mapping system distinguishes Personal Travel Websites from travel blogs by allowing travelers and their visitors to focus on what separates travel from all other endeavours: the places you’ve been and seen. Users are encouraged to add links to multiple maps and to customize those maps to focus on their own experiences. One view of any of the samples shows how this map-driven focus differs starkly from a travel blog.
There are also a number of archiving features not normally associated with blogging. Rather than simply maintaining your travel blog on someone else's servers, all standard and premium customers may download an html copy of their entire site to view on their local hard drive or posted to a personal webpage. Unlike with most travel blog systems which will immediately reduce photo images to what's needed to show on a computer screen, the photos loaded in a Personal Travel Website will be stored in their original resolution so that they may be accessed for printing later on.
The traveler-focused system deals with users according to their own experiences, rather than on programming terms as with travel blog systems. The places traveled are mapped specifically for the user’s own trip and no-one else's. Image limits are not counted by the megabyte but by number of photos. |
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Your 'Travel Blog On Steroids' could look something like this one... |
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My European Adventure
April 22, 2008 - From Madrid to Barcelona and then on past the French Riviera, my Special Reclining Class train seat has left me with a numb bum! The Spanish Renfe train system is efficient and comfortable and seems to be keeping more or less on schedule.
The scenery has been gorgeous and the activity on the train amusing... more
MY ITINERARY
| Feb 1, 2008 Paros |
| Feb 7, 2008 Santorini |
| Feb 21, 2008 Bye-bye Vancouver |
| Feb 24, 2008 Uffizi Gallery |
| Mar 1, 2008 Athens at last! |
| Mar 12, 2008 To Athens and home! |
| Mar 27, 2008 Vienna |
| Apr 22, 2008 Train to Milan |
| Jun 4, 2008 Naxos |
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