Welcome to the fourth voyage of the BlogHarbor Cruise, an audioblog or podcast where we take a trip around the BlogHarbor community. On this voyage, we catch up with some of the changes in our service over the past few months. The BlogHarbor Cruise is somewhat more of an audio weblog than podcast; it will be very convenient to listen to the program in front of your computer while visiting the locations we speak about in your web browser.

On this program which is just over 33 minutes long, we'll touch on these topics:

New Features

Sticky Posts

Ever wanted to add an article to your blog which would always appear at the top of a category or the top of your Main Page? That's a Sticky Post! We've made it easy to mark a post as sticky. Read our user manual page and learn how make your articles sticky.

 

Spell Checking

A spell checker has been integrated into the Rich Text Editor. The user manual page on the spell checker is here.

 

Prohibit hotlinking

To control your bandwidth usage, you can now prohibit other websites from hotlinking your files. Hotlinking, which we refer to as "sourcing of files" or "file sourcing," is when another website loads your images or files on their site. Your bandwidth is used when that site's visitors load their page and see images hosted from your blog; enabling this feature prevents other sites from sourcing your files. Learn how to manage file sourcing.

 

Delete and Block Trackbacks

It's now possible for you to delete incoming trackbacks in batches, and also to block problem Trackbacks from recurring, allowing you to better handle trackback abuse. Learn more about managing trackbacks.

 

Ten New Color Schemes Available

10 new themes or color schemes have been added to the set of default templates, bringing the total number of available color schemes to 32. Thumbnails are here.

 

Blog Hosting Plans and Lower Pricing

More powerful plans at lower prices...

 

Email Hosting

Our new business-class email service is the perfect match for your blog using a custom domain name.

 

The RSS feed for this podcast is http://demo.blogharbor.com/blog/Podcasting/Cruise/index.xml so if you're using a podcast receiver or podcatcher such as iPoddder Lemon, you can use that address to automatically receive new BlogHarbor Cruise podcasts when they they are released.

Questions, suggestions, feedback, and MP3 comments to cruise@blogharbor.com or via the comment form below. All aboard!

Welcome to the third voyage of the BlogHarbor Cruise, an audioblog or podcast where we take a trip around BlogHarbor and visit some of the sites our bloggers are creating. The BlogHarbor Cruise is somewhat more of an audio weblog than podcast; it will be very convenient to listen to the program in front of your computer while visiting the locations we speak about in your web browser.

On this program which is just under 18 minutes long, we'll visit:

http://unbecominglevity.blogharbor.com.com/

Inventive and creative personalization of the default templates.

 

Add a banner to your header

http://demo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2003/12/26/10894.html

 

Collapsible Components

http://unbecominglevity.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2004/6/30/97796.html

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=746

 

Changing the structure of your Recent Comments component

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1123

http://demo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2004/6/3/82631.html

 

Printer Friendly Pages

http://unbecominglevity.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/28/79642.html

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=654

 

Changing the color of your sidebars

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=515

 

http://nowsmellthis.blogharbor.com/

Modifying the default presentation and structure to create a fully customized design.

 

Modifying the presentation elements of your blog via CSS

How to Center your blog, a good primer on modifying your blog's CSS style template

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1150

 

Change the background color of your component titles

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1259

 

Add a border around your dates

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1250

 

Tips on tweaking your stylesheet:

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1108

 

Modifying the structural elements of your blog via the category and article templates

Changing the default font

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=518

 

Changing the style of the article's title

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1080

 

Changing the "More" link on Category pages

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1196

 

Add default content to every article

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1132

 

Make the article title link to the article's Permanent Link

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=998

 

Modifying the attachments icon

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1227

 

The RSS feed for this podcast is http://demo.blogharbor.com/blog/Podcasting/Cruise/index.xml so if you're using a podcast receiver or podcatcher such as iPoddder Lemon, you can use that address to automatically receive new BlogHarbor Cruise podcasts when they they are released.

Questions, suggestions, feedback, and MP3 comments to cruise@blogharbor.com or via the comment form below. All aboard!

Welcome to our second BlogHarbor Cruise, an audioblog or podcast where we take a cruise around BlogHarbor to see some of the interesting things our bloggers are doing. The BlogHarbor Cruise is somewhat more of an audio weblog than podcast; it will be very convenient to listen to the program in front of your computer while visiting the locations we speak about in your web browser.

On this program which is just over 12 minutes long, we'll visit:

http://thisblogismyblog.blogharbor.com/

A great writer shares a personal experience.

 

http://www.metsblog.com/

A popular weblog for fans of the New York Mets baseball team

A moving comment by a reader of the site.

Learn how to center your blog.

 

http://blogforfunandprofit.blogware.com

A wealth of information about RSS, blogging, podcasting, and marketing.

 

http://brightave.blogharbor.com/

Professional journalist blogs and podcasts.

Audioblog.com: www.audioblog.com

 

The RSS feed for this podcast is http://demo.blogharbor.com/blog/Podcasting/Cruise/index.xml so if you're using a podcast receiver or podcatcher such as iPoddder Lemon, you can use that address to automatically receive new BlogHarbor Cruise podcasts when they they are released.

Questions, suggestions, feedback, and MP3 comments to cruise@blogharbor.com or via the comment form below. All aboard!

Welcome to the first BlogHarbor Cruise, an audioblog or podcast where we take a cruise around BlogHarbor to see the interesting things some of our bloggers are doing. The BlogHarbor Cruise will be more of an audio weblog than podcast; it will be very convenient to listen to the program in front of your computer while following along to some of the locations we visit.

Some of the places we'll visit on our first program which is just short of 15 minutes long include:

http://www.vallartaundiscovered.com/

See this page for how to use a domain name as your blogs address:

http://demo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2003/11/27/7410.html

 

http://dissidentvox.blogware.com/

Add a background image to your blog's header table:

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1083

 

Add Audio to your Weblog Using AudioBlog.com:

http://demo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/22/74667.html

 

http://www.eftzone.com/

Make simple changes to your blog's CSS stylesheet, it can go a long way:

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=518

 

Customizing your blogs CSS stylesheet

http://forums.blogharbor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1150

 

The RSS feed for this podcast will be at http://demo.blogharbor.com/blog/Podcasting/Cruise/index.xml so if you're using a podcast receiver or podcatcher such as iPoddder Lemon, you can use that address to automatically receive new BlogHarbor Cruise podcasts when they they are released.

Questions, suggestions, feedback, and MP3 comments to cruise@blogharbor.com or via the comment form below. All aboard!