Suggestions for Blogspirit

Today I wrote yet another support ticket to our blog hoster „Blogspirit“ and I felt like publishing it in my Media Zone. I’m mostly concerned about new features and functionality for the blog to enhance this interface and enrich the output. I’m sure its going to be quite a stunt to integrate these software implementations, and I have all the time to wait for it as it is a free to use service.

Pings
I would like to know about which weblog directories receive your ping information. Furthermore, I have a few other directories (primarily from the german market) and I would like to be able to manually add these URLs for automated pings.

Searching
Is there a way to integrate a search tool for the entries of a blog? By now I reached over 100 posts and perhaps some people want to search further. Such searchbox is yet another function for either the left or right colum. On top of that, it is interesting to search all blogs for similar content…

Comments
Once you login to the admin interface, you apparently save the login data in a session/cookie. Perhaps you can set the comments formular to use this cookie in order to cope all input data such as email, name (real name, not the blog name) and url – while offering to edit such in case somebody wants to include different information.

Startpage of Blogspirit
It would be helpful to identify „private“ (access denied) blogs on the start page before you click and be prompted the authorisation popup window – just a little „asterisk“ would aid. Furthermore, a distinction between the various languages on the international site (english, german, spanish, asiatic languages, …) would help alot to filter the content before you open the blog and see nothing else but i.e. japanese hyroglyphes. Perhaps the individual language settings of the blog can be used to display the language’s token behind the blog link – like „en“ for english, „fr“ for french, „it“ for italian… etc.