Now offering SmartSpace easy website builder!
November 11, 2008
Simply register the domain name you want and SmartSpace builds your Web site for you, instantly connecting your domain to a blog, photo site, social site and much more. It’s as easy as typing your domain name in your Web browser and logging in with your username and password!
With SmartSpace, the work has been done for you. No technical skills needed. No waiting for your domain to go live — just add your own personal photos, videos, blog posts and more and your site builds itself automatically! Your job is to pick what goes best with your domain.
Integrate with Google News, Flickr, YouTube, and FaceBook. Anything with an RSS feed is fair game.
- Instantly Connected To:
- FREE Blog Tool
- FREE Photo Site
- FREE SocialSpace
- And MORE!
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- Instant Domain Activation
- No Technical Skills Needed
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New Quick Blogcast Statistics Tool
October 9, 2008
With the launch of Quick Blogcast’s new Statistics Tool, a fresh, interactive design for working with your blog’s site statistics is at your fingertips. You’ll have access to the most accurate information for your site and the most control over how you view that information. Enjoy access to statistics and reports for various blog features, including how visitors are getting to your blog, how frequently they’re visiting, what they’re viewing, and on what entries they’re commenting.
PLUS, we’ve made it even easier to manage your site-building applications; you can now log in and manage Quick Blogcast, Quick Shopping Cart® and WebSite Tonight® all from one common dashboard. Check it out today!
Quick Blogcast now easier to customize!
June 10, 2008
We’ve refined the built-in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Editor to make changing the look and feel of your blogcast a breeze:
- As you edit, all your changes are now displayed in the right pane of the Style Sheet tab. The left pane displays the default style sheets, making it easy to check and correct the new code as you go.
- Mess up? No worries – your previous version is automatically saved. Just revert to the settings in your last published blog, rather than go all the way back to the default settings.
- For those times when you’re halfway through a blog facelift and get called away, now you can save your work. Simply uncheck the “Apply” checkbox and publish your changes. All of your changes will be saved, but not visible to readers until you check “Apply” and publish.
NEW! Keep your best thoughts from disappearing – with Quick Blogcast’s Autosave
May 11, 2008
Don’t lose your best blog entry because you were logged out of your account by mistake or your toddler pulled the power cord. Whatever causes your draft entry to crash, it’s always frustrating trying to rewrite a post that can’t live up to the original.
Keep those great thoughts alive with the additional protection of Autosave. Quick Blogcast now saves your blog entries as you write them, including draft entries and the existing entries you’re editing. When you create a draft entry, Quick Blogcast automatically saves it every two minutes. Open an existing (saved) entry to edit and Quick Blogcast autosaves that document every two minutes as well, displaying the last autosave time at the bottom of the window.
Wordpress sites blocked by search engines
May 6, 2008
At Dream Whisper Designs, we truly love working with our customers to develop sites built on WordPress. WordPress is a stand alone blogging platform that is highly customizable and easy to use. And, WordPress is available as a one-click install on our Linux hosting accounts as part of our free Value Applications.
Wordpress updates have been released, but many sites are still running on old Wordpress installations which have known vulnerabilities open to spammers, who insert links to spam destinations within the blog page. These links are invisible to the general user but are available to web crawlers such as Google, Yahoo, and Technorati. As a result many sites that have not updated their installations are being delisted from the internet search engines. Yes, delisted – the crawlers don’t simply cease crawling these sites, but actually remove them from their indexes.
Case in point:
Fitzmorris Horse Logging, a site we built for a client in 2006, was built on Wordpress 2.1.1. Though the site was indexed, it wasn’t ranking very high in the search engine results, so our client asked us to take a look at what we could do for SEO. In actuality, the SEO for the site was very easy. We discovered that posts on the site weren’t being categorized properly when publishing. For example, a post that belonged in “Horse Training” was being published to all available but irrelevant categories, so we did a little editing and training to resort the posts appropriately. In addition, we installed a few handy plugins to increase the site speed and provide better SEO, along with a better bookmarking system. Voila! Inside of a week, the site was listed on page 1 in Google for “horse logging.”
But….within a week after making these simple changes, the site didn’t appear in Google’s index at all! Why? WordPress 2.1.1. The site had been delisted.
Once discovered, we immediately upgraded the installation to WP 2.3.3 and resubmitted the site to be crawled. The results: after 2 weeks of patience, the site is now back on page 1 for “horse logging.”
Lesson: Keep your software up-to-date!
Caveat: If you are using plugins, they may no longer work or break the site when upgrading. Check to see if there is a new version of your plugins. If you are using a custom design, some changes may be necessary with the new version. Visit the Wordpress Documentation and Wordpress Forums for help.
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“Blog This Photo” makes posting photos from Online Photo Filer to Quick Blogcast a snap!
April 7, 2008
Posting your photos from Online Photo Filer to Quick Blogcast is easy when you use “Blog this Photo.” Select Online Photo Filer’s newest feature and you’ll quickly open a photo, a layout and a text area where you can then write your story.
Next, submit your post and it’s sent to Quick Blogcast or to the blogging service you’ve set up in Online Photo Filer.
Vlogging is here! Record, encode and upload video files to your blog
January 9, 2008
Quick Blogcast users, now you can video blog – vlog – straight from your Quick Blogcast account! We make it easy to record, edit, compress, upload and post your videos seamlessly in one application… it’s easy. Best of all, your videos are viewable on nearly any PC.
All paid versions of Quick Blogcast have this feature – located under Manage Entries > Add Video. And while most other services let you upload your video files, encoding them on their servers, we do things a little differently. All the encoding occurs on your own system – eliminating long upload times and leaving file size and quality options up to you.
But that’s not all! You can also add photos to your entries from your Photobucket account! To get started, enter your Photobucket feed URL to your Quick Blogcast account and begin adding Photobucket images to your Quick Blogcast entries. It’s that easy! Simply log in to your Quick Blogcast account and select “Services” from the “Manage Blog” header.
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