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Greymatter put to rest Well flatblog has replaced greymatter as the publishing manager for this forum. The free hosting forum used greymatter for a long period of time at http://vic.memebot.com and later here at the BlogBank. Unfortunately it doesn't cater for multiple blogs or provide an Rss feed of the published content. Because I am more familiar with PHP and I wanted a cross platform Linux/Windows solution a new platform was needed as a replacement. Please visit the new blog. posted by colac @ 08:20 AM EST [view full entry] Thursday, November 17, 2005MyBlogSite Closing ShopMyBlogSite is no more, the existing services will be closed on the 30th of November. Emails were sent to users explaining the closure with 2 weeks notice. The recommended replacement service is $8.95 per month a steep hike from the free blogging that was provided. There are plenty of free blogging systems but MyBlogSite was one of the better operations with some unique features. This was my favourite blogging provider so I am pretty disappointed. Other than stating the business direction had shifted there was no other reason given for the closure. Another blogger account at http://www.coweb.blogspot.com has been set up as a replacement until my own multi-user blogging system is operational. posted by @ 03:50 AM EST [view full entry] [more] Wednesday, October 26, 2005Blogsource.com Simple, Intuitive BloggingWelcome to Blogsource, a free yet powerful blogging service built by bloggers for bloggers. Our goal is to provide a creative environment that is simple and intuitive. To that end, we are continuously adding features based on your actual requests. By building powerful features that are easy-to-use, we aim to provide you with the best tools for your personal publishing needs. We invite you to join us... Blogsource.com has been built from the ground up by bloggers with a focus on ease-of-use and overall simplicity. Our plan is to grow incrementally with your input and suggestions. This is your blog, and we want to get it right. Create your own blog to reach out to family and friends and find new readers who share your interests. At the same time, you will help us to become a powerful personal publishing tool and contribute to our growing community. Current features and tools Simple to use publishing interface. Directory & blog search Blog Jump ™ Comments Blog subscriptions via RSS 2.0 Quick and easy blog design http://www.blogsource.com/help/about.mhtml Post formatting with custom tags My favorite blog links Personal profile Send your blog & posts to friends Privacy options Easy sign up posted @ 07:02 AM EST [view full entry] [more] Thursday, October 20, 2005BloggerI have been very busy building some interlinked content management systems for www.coweb.biz over the past week. This system has to be the most versitile way to add a dynamic content management sytem to a static website. One of the shortfalls of many perfectly good free web hosting providers is the inability to use a database or php to generate dynamic content. The solution is to construct a website with static pages and add the dynamic content with the interface provided at www.blogspot.com. This outfit is now owned by Google so the systems capabilities to service customers is guaranteed. The unique feature of blogger is the ability to store the web pages created by the system back to your own web server. If you can access your web hosting account with a direct path via ftp the system should work for you. The only free hosting provider I have had issues with is www.50webs.com because the server operates on virtual paths. This could probably be overcome by making enquiries with the hosting provider to find out the full path. After setting the system up you publish and manage your content at blogger and each time you rebuild files they are transferred to the storage location specified on your server. To access the weblog you point links to the index where all of the archived blogger pages accessible. Adding a site menu to the template links every archive page back to the main website to integrate the full package seamlessly. posted by @ 02:30 AM EST [view full entry] [more] Sunday, October 16, 2005zoomshareCreate a free web site, blog and share photos with zoomshare Create your free zoomshare web site today! Free web site hosting with no pre-set bandwidth limits No banner ads or pop-ups on your web pages Post and share digital photos Publish thoughts and get feedback in your blog and our forums Choose from dozens of home page templates Includes one e-mail box with web-based access Listing in our searchable community and classified directories NEW! Add chat rooms to your site, with audio and video capability No technical skills or software needed - all you need is a web browser No billing information collected - your site is totally free posted @ 06:32 AM EST [view full entry] New Service for Rural Australian Businesses Coweb.biz Administrators of websites for rural Australian businesses and IT support specialists. Combining the power of findEngines National Business Database and Blogger with a Coweb.biz Internet solution. The cost effective way to deliver dynamic content online. We market your website and submit to search engines to... Visit Coweb.biz Hosting Forum for more info. posted @ 06:08 AM EST [view full entry] [more] Friday, October 14, 2005Geocities Free Web HostingGeocities is a very popular free hosting service provided by Yahoo. The server does not provide PHP or database facilities but the server is very reliable and only a small traffic bar infringes on your web pages. No popups or banners to overcrowd your pages. Plenty of space to store images, reference manuals and anything else to add value for your site visitors. The add ins at Yahoo are easy to install but they are very basic. Watch your filenames when using different services, Yahoo doesn't permit spaces. posted @ 11:57 PM EST [view full entry] Bravehost Colac IT Services The Bravehost server is one of the Free hosting services we use. If you need Free Web Hosting and need a simple system to get started visit bravenet to open a full account with access to all of the services our web site displays. They provide a free hosting service that is easy to use with ftp file transfer and a hoard of scripts and information to set up a full site. Like most free services banner adds are placed above your page when viewed online to generate revenue to pay for the service. The pop up adds get a bit over the top but ease of use is a major benefit. All of the templates can be used freely to get started at bravehost or elsewhere. We give a quick tutorial on how to use the templates, prepare images and general info to get you started. posted @ 11:07 PM EST [view full entry] [more] Wednesday, October 12, 2005Free Web Hosting Providersababa - 15Mb with 1Gb monthly bandwidth. MP3 and EXE files not allowed. No forced ads. Browser uploads. SSI supported. A11.net - 12Mb. Ads on pages. Browser uploads. Email forwarding. Templates provided. Angelfire - 20Mb. Choice of pop-up or on-page ads. FTP or Browser uploads. Templates and building tools provided. Anzwers - Unlimited space and bandwidth. Banner ad each page. Browser uploads. AOL Hometown - 12Mb. Banner frame ad. FTP uploads. ApolloNet Hosting - 100Mb with 20Gb monthly bandwidth. PHP, MySQL, CGI supported on approval. 1ASPHost - 100 Mb with unlimited bandwidth. Pop-up ads on each page. ASP and MS Access databases supported. Biz.ly - 100Mb with unlimited bandwidth. Browser uploads. Banner on each page. Brinkster - 30Mb with 500Mb monthly bandwidth. Browser uploads. ASP supported. Bronwyn.co.uk - 12 MB. Banner and Pop-up ad on each page. BuildtoLearn - For accepted sites. 20Mb. FTP uploads. Bz.tc - 20 MB. Banners and Pop-up ad on each page. FTP. 0Catch - 100Mb with 600Mb bandwidth. 1Mb file size limit. Banner or Pop-up ad on each%2 posted @ 07:29 AM EST [view full entry] [more] Monday, October 10, 2005Rss Common TermsWhat is an RSS feed? RSS is a format used to syndicate news and other web content. This includes major news organizations such as The New York Times and Wired, but also covers blogs and other types of content. Sites that offer RSS-formatted content are accessible through a news aggregator such as NewsGator, which feeds and displays new items from each feed you track. What is a blog? A blog is a journal, a running log of thoughts and or commentary that an author (or “blogger”) makes available for reading on a website. Blogging software allows bloggers to update their weblogs whenever they want. People reading the blog can respond to individual entries of the blogger, sometimes creating extended discussions. What is XML? Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format. Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variey of data on the Web and elsewhere. posted @ 07:17 PM EST [view full entry] The merits of different blogging platforms The Microcontent News Blogging Software Roundup - Part One of the Weblog Industry Report - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog THE MICROCONTENT NEWS WEBLOG INDUSTRY REPORT Part One - Blogging Software Roundup The word "weblog" is used so loosely these days that it's lost all meaning. This was really highlighted for me earlier this year, when I did a three-part interview with the authors of O'Reilly's Running Weblog with Slash. After I published the piece, I noticed some indignation by bloggers over the Slashdot guys co-opting the word "weblog" in their book title. At first that struck me as strange - I've always thought of Slashdot as the "original" weblog. But at the same time, the word weblog seems to have been coined by a traditional blogger who publishes by hand using FTP. Upon reflection, there are actually two distinct types of software that have a claim to the word "weblog": posted by @ 04:22 PM EST [view full entry] Blogging Terms By Susannah Gardner Posted: 2005-07-14 Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool? Blogging jargon Whichever blog software package you chose, there are a few technical options you may want to look for. Here's a short glossary of blog technology: Post: Every time you put an update on your blog, you create a post. In typical computer jargon fashion, this noun can also be used as a verb: You can post to your blog. Posts are also sometimes called entries. Comments: Blogs are often referred to as conversations, and it's the ability of your readers to leave comments on each post you make to your blog that creates the feel of a conversation. Comments are usually time-stamped and identified by the author’s name and perhaps a link to their Web site or blog. On some blogs, comments are threaded so that readers can comment on other comments, but on most blogs comments are simply displayed chronologically. Comment spam: Sad to say, spam is a problem on blogs just as it is in email. Comment spam, as you would expect, is left in the comments of a blog. It usually includes a few words and a link to a Web site. The point for the spammer is to get as many links as possible to the Web site, giving it higher search engine rankings. Categories: Categories permit a blogger to subdivide content, putting posts about politics into one basket and posts about celebrities in another. Categorization helps readers read only what they are most interested in and is a good tool for those scanning a blog's archives. Trackbacks: Trackback technology helps bloggers link back to other posts on related subjects. Functionally it's a little complicated: If you're posting about something you've seen on another blog, look for the Trackback URL. Paste that URL into the allotted spot in your own blogging software, and the two pieces of blog software will communicate, building a link from the original post to yours (without the other blogger having to life a finger). Trackback spam: Like comment spam, but done via Trackback. Pings: There are several blogging tracking Web sites where you can search for other blogs and look for recent posts. If your blog software allows you to ping those sites when you post, that post gets included in the ping site's index, potentially increasing your traffic. RSS/Atom feeds: In the blogosphere, syndication is a big deal. With millions of blogs to read, many consumers use news aggregators, or readers, to pull in posts and read them, rather than visiting 150 blogs every day. RSS and Atom are two flavours of blog syndication. Blogroll/lists: Ever noticed those long lists of other blogs alongside the posts in a blog? That's a blogroll, a list of the blogs read by the blogger whose site you are on. Sometimes lists are also kept to recommend books and other media, as well. News aggregation: Many blog software packages allow you to pull in and display the RSS or Atom feed of another blog. This is useful if you want to create a site with constantly updated content fed by blogs. For example, a blogger who posts about politics could pull in the feeds of other political blogs. Moblogging: Moblogging is the short form of "mobile blogging." Lots of blog software lets you post by e-mail from your phone, PDA, or anything else that allows you to send e-mails. Blacklist: Blacklists are usually lists of URLs that have been identified as spam URLs, and that are therefore eliminated from comments and Trackbacks on your blog. With most blog software, the software company builds and maintains a common blacklist for all users to which individuals can contribute. Captchas: Captchas are an additional security feature for commenting and user registration. By providing an image that includes letters and numbers, and by requiring the user to type in those letters and numbers, blog software can eliminate some of the comment and Trackback spam produced by robot programs. URL Redirection: In an effort to render comment and Trackback spam ineffective, links included in comments and Trackbacks are tagged with the NOFOLLOW tag, which indicates to search engines that it shouldn't be counted when tallying search engine rankings for a Web site. Skins: Most blog software includes a set of pre-designed templates that give the blog a certain look and feel. These are called skins. Post scheduling: Some blog software allows you to write posts and schedule them to be published at some point in the future. This is handy for vacations and holidays. Bookmarklets: A bookmarklet is a link directly to the new post page of your blog software. If you add this small Javascript to your browser toolbar, it's a shortcut to posting quickly. The tools This chart reflects the features and options configurable in the default installation of each software application. In some cases additional modules and plug-ins can add functionality that is not available in the default installation. Blogger Blogger is a free, hosted blogging tool. It's one of the oldest blogging tools around and today has millions of users. Blogger promises that you will be blogging within 10 minutes of coming to the site, and in fact does deliver on that. This tool is about the simplest one around, and though free, nonetheless has an impressive array of features. posted @ 04:11 PM EST [view full entry] [more] |
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