Lots of changes and updates recently here at BlogHarbor - here's the rundown on some of the things we've been up to.
Hot and Fresh
Two new items were added to the home page today at www.blogharbor.com: Fresh Posts, a list of recently posted articles and photos across all blogs, and Hot Topics, a list of recently commented on posts throughout our weblog network.
We hope you find these lists a useful–and fun–way to see what topics bloggers and readers are talking about. The lists will be updated every 5 minutes and will only include upgraded blogs, trial blogs will not appear on these lists.
Search All BlogHarbor Blogs
Also we're happy to announce that we've deployed a search engine which allows you to search our entire network of weblogs. We used Google's Custom Search Engine service to build this feature and the results are lightning fast, timely, and precise.
Check out our list of Recently Updated BlogHarbor Weblogs and you'll be able to see at a glance which weblogs have been updated, search our blog network, or subscribe to an RSS feed listing updated blogs.
Search All Support Resources
We've got a lot of support resources to help you: an extensive User Manual, a set of How To reference guides, and our Community Forums have over 5,000 posts. Sometimes it can be difficult to find an answer you're looking for because you're not sure of the best place to look for it.
Today we also implented a search engine based on Google technology which allows you to search all of our support resources at once, providing you with a great starting off point when you need help building or customizing your weblog. With just one click, you'll have access to related pages for your search term from our manuals, our How To guides, and all of the thousands of posts on our forums. Try out the new search engine from our Help page.
Reader Account Signup Integration
Our most recent System Update enhances your blog by allowing your readers to signup for a user account without leaving your blog (previously the reader account signup process led to a BlogHarbor-branded page).
Readers who are logged in will also notice that the header link in your blog which used to be labeled Subscribe is now labeled My Preferences, reflecting the fact that in addition to managing their subscriptions, your readers can now manage many of their basic reader account functions right from your blog site (some advanced reader account management still takes place in a BlogHarbor-branded preferences page).
The My Preferences page now allows a reader to update their Name, email address, Display Name, Language Preference (English, French, or Spanish), or password right within your blog's preferences page. Readers can now also permanently delete their account from this page.
Testimonials
A testimonials box has been aded to the sidebar of our home page. We hope this will help visitors to choose us as their preferred blog hosting provider, but we also hope it will help to send new readers to your blogs.
If you're interested in having your testimonial appear on our home page, please post your testimonial to this forum thread. Include your real name if you want it to appear, and the URL of your weblog if you would like us to link your name to your site.
