Starting a new site January 19, 2009
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We’re still blasting our way through an amount of work. Setting up this site has been enjoyable even if its been a ton of hard work.
At the moment, we’re editing some features, tweaking templates and hacking then rehacking our way through code. the work load is heavy and consuming a lot of my time but thoroughly enjoying it.
Its a huge difference from setting up other sites - A lot of sites these days are click click installs - you could even set them up without knowing any coding. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with that. Its like buying a car (bear with me!). Its great to just waltz into the garage, pick your car and drive off - but sometimes there’s a whole lot of fun to be had in modifying the car, ripping it apart, checking the engine and adding modifications onto it.
And so it is with us at the moment. In between all the things to do, I took a moment to look back over our ‘work’ lists a few moments ago. We’ve come a long way baby!
We’ve huge ideas for the site, but to implement them will take time. For now we want to get a solid foundation under us and then we can progress from there.
Busy Days January 17, 2009
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Phew, What a few days.
I’ve been real busy updating, tweaking and editing the site as things get going. Hundreds of templates have now been installed. I’ve lost track of the difference between a plugin, widget and module, but no matter, I’m installing more and more each day.
One side step I took out of my planned tasks was to add a forum directory at http://free-blog.biz/forums/directory.php. Forum webmasters can now add their directory to it upon creation of their forum, or they can choose to keep the forum private and off the directory list. If you want extra traffic, submit to the directory! If you don’t keep your forum private!
Templates have eaten into my time, I’ve tried to install as wide a variety as possible. I still have plenty of tempates to upload for the forum side of things, the free blogs have over 100 at present to choose from! There’s got to be one for everybody there!
I’ve taken the step of installing ads on forums and blogs. Not something I wanted to do and I’m hoping to be able to remove it soon. Hosting and bandwidth must be paid for so until I come up with an alternative system I’ll use the adverts. They can be removed for 20$ a year, regardless of your traffic. At some stage we may implement traffic based costing, but at the moment we just want to cover my costs!
Hello world! January 12, 2009
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Welcome to Free-blog.biz. What better way to launch a free blog and free forums service than to launch our own blog and forum!
We’ll be updating our users on progress here, we’ve a ton of tasks to get through. Most important to us areinstalling loads of templates for both the forums and blogs. We will then concentrate on installing plugins. Lots of plugins!
We’re really excited and enthuastic about Free-Blog.biz. We believe we offer a great service to our users with quality support to back it up. We’re running two of the best softare packages out there - wordpress and myBB. Both are leaders in their fields and are tried and trusted packages.
Our support forum can be found at support.free-blog.biz. We welcome all comments, and that includes the negative!