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Details Of Other Blogging Tools and Add Ons are mentioned below:
Bloglinker.com
blogLinker.com is a free tool for managing web links and increasing site traffic. It can
be embedded anywhere in the web page and can be easily configured to fit the existing
site design. Once a user is registered, a special code is provided to his webpage. The
toll allows users to add websites to the list of links. If the site is already member of
blogLinker, then its details will be listed. If the website you link to is also a member of
blogLinker then user’s website will automatically appear in their list of links. This
increasing the number of visitors to user’s site. One can even hide sites from the list.
The sites hidden will be made aware of this and vice versa. Similarly, list entries can
be edited or deleted. If a reciprocated link is deleted, the link to user’s site is deleted in
return. In other words, a bunch of links cannot be added. People can add their site to
user’s list by clicking a link at the bottom of the list in his webpage. The link will be
reciprocated, further promoting the site. The look of the list can be customized. This is
very easy to do; once blogLinker code is copied & pasted into your chosen web page,
the user is directed to experiment with the look and feel. At the bottom of the 'Format
Your List' page, there is a set of 16 drop-down lists. Each list corresponds to a feature
of the blogLinker, such as header font color or text size/type etc. Either a value from
the drop-down list can be selected or the required value can be entered directly into the
input box, just below each drop-down list, allowing for maximum configurability.
Click 'Save Changes' when ready. To test the changes done, simply reload the web
page. User scan also display different lists with different categories required.
BlogSnob
BlogSnob is an experimental service for members of the blogging community. It
enables users to tell everyone in the webspace about his or her blog thru simple
textbased ads. It requires the users to insert a simple piece of code into their page.
Every time someone views the site, a small text ad of another blog shows up on the
page. BlogSnob is basically an ad exchange for Personal Blogs, where the ad is in the
form of a Text Ad that blends into the site design. This way, it does not spoil all the
hardwork a user has done in beautifying his site, but still serves its purpose. The
software also allows a person to read many other beautiful, yet less popular blogs.
Plus, a section called SnobJumping talks about sites, in general. User moderation is a
way by which the users themselves help to keep the BlogSnob network clean, friendly
and nice to surf through. Any member of blogsnob can simply check out sites
randomly. If they find a site that interests them, they can talk about the site in the
"Cool sites" board in the Forums. If the user's made a really good discovery - that is a
yet not popular but wonderful site, the site and the discoverer's site are both rewarded
with publicity on Snobjumping.
Reblogger
Reblogger is a comment system for web logs that is designed to work with Blogger
blogs and other systems as well. It can be used as a remote commenting system (for
those without cgi capability), or can be installed on any server with CGI capability and
perl. Following are specific features of the software: It allows multiple users, i.e.,
people can add their own reblogger accounts on to user’s server. If someone doesn’t
have a CGI enabled web server, they can host their comments on user’s server. If there
are extra resources the general public can be allowed to host their comments on server.
The template that it uses is like a Blogger template, where special tags can be used to
indicate where to put the comments, how should it be formatted and where to put the
form to submit a new comment. The software provides the facility of email
notification. Reblogger can be set to send an email to user whenever someone leaves a
comment on web log. One of its features includes removing unwanted comments/
offensive comment.
It can also help in IP Blocking. If someone is continually harassing the user, then he or
she can block their IP address. This will restrict them to from commenting. HTML in
comments: it allows usage of , , and tags in
comments. Also, links are created automatically when URLS are typed in a comment.
Time Zone can be selected by the user to have the time and date that is displayed
adjusted accordingly. Installation of the software: Installation can be easy using
Linux/Unix or Windows/DOS. The archive run the file called "install" before the
installer ask some questions to get an idea about where on server reblogger will reside.
The URL of the website is entered where reblogger is installed. Start with http://. In
most cases CGI scripts can only be run from the CGI-bin directory. So, here the user
needs to specify the path to the CGI-bin. If there is no CGI-bin, then change this to
something other than the default (try /reblogger/). Otherwise you probably won't need
to change this. This allows the user to specify where important things, for example:
password, are to be stored. The software uses sendmail to send any of the emails it
needs to send. Once this information is entered the installer will try to figure out what
the web address of the reblogger directory is. The installer will then show the
information entered. If everything is right enter "y". The installer will now ftp
reblogger to user’s website. The reblogger is ready to use. Now that reblogger is
installed, a user account should be created. Once account is created the user is taken to
the comment manager, where he can customize the settings. Reblogger can be used by
just one person for one blog, or one person for a few blogs, or by many people for
many blogs. Users can allow as many people as they want.
w.bloggar
w.bloggar is an application that targets to be an interface between the user and his
blog(s). It is considered to be a Post and Template editor, with several features and
resources that the browser based blog editors can not offer. w.bloggar a software that
runs over Windows GUI and allows the user to edit his posts without being connected
to the Internet, saving locally one or more texts to be posted in the future. It can be
minimized to the Tray bar as an icon and every time the user wants to publish a new
text, he just need a click and has the editor ready to work, finished the text, another
click and the post will be published. Another great advantage of w.bloggar is that it is
compatible with most of weblog systems available, allowing an advanced user to have
one only interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, under different
publishing systems. To communicate with the weblog w.bloggar needs that the blog
system has implemented an API, the acronym to Application Programming Interface.
Currently w.bloggar is compatible with Blogger API, metaWeblog API, MovableType
API and b2 API all based on XML-RPC definition. To set up w.bloggar to post to your
BlogWorks XML blogs, instructions given below should be followed: download
w.bloggar from http://wbloggar.com/ and install the application and open the
w.bloggar application. A login window will appear allowing the user to create a New
Account. BlogWorks username is to be entered here along with the password. Click
OK. It will then direst towards the account connection window, where the address of
the host where BlogWorks is installed into Host field. If the webserver runs on a port
other than 80, the port setting should also be changed. Click OK to confirm the entered
information. Its functions include: post and publish on Blogger, b2, MovableType,
Nucleus, BigBlogTool, BlogWorks XML, Blogalia and Drupal blogs, edit posts and
templates, save posts locally for further publishing, import text files, add links and
images, format text font and alignment, multiple accounts and blogs, post preview,
colorized html code, html tags menu, find/replace option, post to many blogs, ping to
weblogs.com, title and category fields, spell checking, file and image upload, custom
tags menu , toolbar icons skin, supports windows xp, easy account configuration
blogBuddy
blogBuddy is a small Windows 95/NT/ME/2000/XP program written in Delphi that
manages Blogger.com and other weblogs which implement the Blogger API. Features
include spell checking and post editing. The current features of the application
includes: posting of new entries, saving of blogid, username and password in an .INI
file, proxy settings, get list of available blogs, system tray icon for quick posting,
coming features sourceforge keeps an updated list on coming features in the requested
features tracker.
The current version is 0.5. The changes that has been incorporated in version 0.5 are
given below:
Following new features were added: installer via nullsoft (superpimp|scriptable) install
system, windows XP look where available, improved error messages when remote site
returns error, spelling, minimal password encryption, editing of recent posts, keyboard
shortcuts for posting and publishing, posting buttons put back where they were.
Following features were fixed: password prompt is always displayed, size and location
is saved (again), two bugs after selecting font fixed: duplicate entries in blog
combobox and crash when saving, crashing when updating blogs and then canceling
options dialog fixed.
Deciding A Name For The Blog
Save the situation where the whole weblog ready except indecision on the blog name.
Bloggers may consider browsing through hundreds of weblogs for ideas. The most
common names range from:
The lame - "Pete’s Weblog," "JamieJ’s Weblog," "Darren S’s Blog" to
The inane - "Fumes n’ Flames," "My Random Thoughts," "SomePlaceElse", to
The sublime but already taken - "Wordridden," "Colossal Waste of Bandwidth", "The
Unseen World"
Naming a blog after an individual’s name, may be blogger’s name, reflects that the
weblog might focus on none but himself. It is recommended that personal names
should be kept out of the blog title.
Name, undoubtedly, may bring hundreds, if not thousands, of web denizens to a
weblog. A weblog should have name that strikes the right note.
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