To complete the blog account setup, you will need to activate your blogs before they are ready to be used with WebStory. Activation involves 3 steps:

• Select your desired type of activation, i.e. Casual or Professional
• Select activation scheme
• Confirm your activation and complete the activation process

There are 2 types of activation, Casual Activation and Professional Activation.

No matter which type of activation you choose to start with, you can always switch to the other type of activation anytime later.

Most importantly, there is NO lock-in for Professional Activation — upon expiry of your Professional Activation: you may renew existing activation plan, or choose other activation plan, or just switch to Casual Activation.

1. Casual Activation

If you write your blogs or microblogs casually, you may choose Casual Activation, as it is FREE but subject to daily posting limitation.

Advantages of Casual Activation:

• Unlimited account activation for free
• Free blog and microblog management, including:
• • backup
  • editing
  • browsing
  • comment management
  • and many more…

With Casual Activation, you are subject to daily posting limits:

• Blog posting/ update — 1 daily free account validation. Subsequent account validation on the same day will require 2 credits each.
• Microblog posting — 3 daily free account validations. Subsequent account validation on the same day will require 1 credit each.

* Account Validation is required when you are trying to publish or update a post or microblog status.

To select the Casual Activation, you have to select the option For Casual Blogger as shown in the window below: 

Then you will be presented with the activation scheme available for Casual Activation. In this case, you will see the details of Casual Activation as shown in the window below:

Click Next and WebStory will show you an Activation Confirmation detail. Here you will see that you can perform Casual Activation for free as the Credit Required is 0.

Upon successfully activating your blog or microblog, you will be prompted with a confirmation message from Self.my server, and you are done with your Casual Activation now. You may then click at the Continue button to proceed with the rest of your account setup.

2. Professional Activation

If you blog for a living or you blog passionately, it is highly recommended that you start with Professional Activation. You will enjoy the true freedom and fun of blogging with WebStory, i.e. all the benefits of Casual Activation MINUS the limitations!

To select the Professional Activation, you have to select the option For Professional Blogger as shown in the window below:

Then you will be presented with the activation scheme available for Professional Activation. In the window below, we will see 2 schemes available, i.e. Monthly and Yearly. It is highly recommended that you go with the Yearly scheme as it offers the greatest savings. With Yearly scheme, you are free to publish unlimited blog post or microblog status within a year.

On the next screen, you will need to select the blogs or microblogs that you would like to activate with the selected scheme.

Click Next and WebStory will automatically calculate the credits required for current activation. To complete the activation, click Activate.

The window below prompts that you have successfully activated your account with Professional Activation and the credits deducted for the activation. If your blog or microblog is still within the valid activation period, trying to re-activate will not deduct further credits from your account.