In addition to my suggestion concerning the Comments being predefined by your personal Accountinformation, I have to add the following idea: As we all know the possibilities of Comment-Spam found on several blogs throughout the net, its usually a reason of the common Trackback-Ping functionality. To avoid this, a Proof-Code generated by an image should be entered once a user is no officially registered user (or currently not logged in to Blogspirit). Even if there is no Trackback-Ping activated on Blogspirit, its a useful tool to limit the exploitation of the blogs through „lifeless annoyances“.
Apparently, the support staff of Blogspirit has taken care of several of our support tickets. Not every single issue has been changed, but so far as I can tell, Philippe Pinault and Thomas Trouve are going to modify this blogservice more and more. Hopefully, they will add all the functionality I’ve been describing roughly. I must encourage every Blogspirit-User to aid the support with constructive ideas in order to keep this service as good as it is.
Its just the second day of the new year, and so far I have done well. Here’s a small list of all the good things done already in 2005:
- I convinced my bloggish love to go out for a walk with me. It rain and the wind punished our faces and ears… hmmm.
- I supported Ann concerning her blog „The Red Hibiscus“. I hope I was able to aid her better than leaving her all alone in the blogosphere since she’s been experiencing quite many problems and had alot questions concerning Blogspirit.
- I’ve been talking with Bec about one of her resolutions – to study up to 4 hours a day as extra time.
- Tried to help Silverstar with a problem about colored scrollbar effects with CSS stylesheets.
So far I’m feeling good, but I grow more and more tired of this dull moment where I sit in my living room, listen to some show on tv, watch my christmas tree and blog. Mmmh, I hope Katharina will ring at my door soon!
Current Mood: Mushed between being tired and hungry
Currently Playing: Kabel1 – Inside USA (documentary)
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.