Happy Holidays!

Posted by RJS in 24. Dec, 2009, under Uncategorized

Happy Holidays!

Update to Terms of Service

Posted by Sérgio in 11. Dec, 2009, under Uncategorized

We have updated the Terms of Service. You may want to review the new conditions, available at http://blog.com/terms-of-service/. In short, the review changes the text to be a little less legalese and more readable, while adding a new section on blog suspension and deletion based on inactivity.
Blog.com’s blog deletion rules, which were not publicly stated [...]

Import blogs from blogger / blogspot

Posted by Sérgio in 03. Dec, 2009, under Features, How-to, Problems & Fixes

In response to numerous requests, we have put into place the Blogger import tool. If you have blogs in blogspot you wish to move into blog.com or merge into your existing blog.com blogs, it is now possible. Login, look for the Tools folder in the sidebar menu, and then click Import in the Tools folder. [...]

Sidebar widgets defaults

Posted by Blog.com Team in 13. Nov, 2009, under How-to, Problems & Fixes

Hello.
There was some confusion about the sidebar widgets displayed in your blogs and we made some changes.
Some themes had default widgets when no widgets were selected in the Appearance->Widgets menu, and you couldn’t remove them, because they were hardcoded. So, we decided to remove the defaults per themes and this way every theme works the [...]

Flickr widget updated and new theme

Posted by Blog.com Team in 05. Nov, 2009, under Features, Themes

Hello.
Just to inform you that we updated the Flickr widget, and you’ll have to update your settings as it gets the photostream with a different and better method. Just pop by “Appearance”->”Widgets” and check your settings.
Besides that, there is a new theme available F01.01. Hope you enjoy it, and it also comes with various colorschemes.

Social bookmarking add-on released

Posted by Blog.com Team in 30. Oct, 2009, under Features

Hey there.
The Blog.com platform keeps improving, trying to fill out the most requested features from our users.
We’ve just released the possibility to add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!
This way people can easily share your interesting [...]

More themes released

Posted by Blog.com Team in 28. Oct, 2009, under Themes

Hello.
As you can surely notice, we’ve been releasing some new themes in the past weeks. Namely the great themes by the company Woo Themes, fitted to Blog.com with increased customization.
These themes bring several colorschemes each, so it’s like having 5 or 6 themes in one. Oh, and you can also upload your own header pictures [...]

Blog search released

Posted by RJS in 16. Oct, 2009, under Features

Hey bloggers!
Another anticipated feature is now available at Blog.com! You can now search the Blog.com community blogs, by using the search bar in the homepage, or by going to the search page directly.
We expect to tweak this blog search a bit in the future, but you can start looking for topics, new blogs and what’s [...]

Theme customization

Posted by RJS in 24. Sep, 2009, under Themes

Hello bloggers!
After many requests from you, and as promised, Blog.com is now starting to provide more theme customization options. If you choose the theme “Vigilance” (the default one), and go to “Theme Options” you can now upload your own header image, as well as change the colors of some of your blog’s elements.
This is just [...]

Blog.com and Google Analytics

Posted by RJS in 07. Sep, 2009, under Themes

Blog.com now supports integration with Google Analytics for our users to track their blog stats.
Whilst we’re developing an own plugin, that will show the blog stats on your dashboard, as well as the possibility to add statistics widgets to your sidebar, Blog.com is giving you the chance to add your Google Analytics tracker to your [...]