Down time, Moving Data

In the last couple of days the database was increasingly taking on more and more load. In the mist of a database outage, we decided to move the data while it was down. Everything should be stable with a few errors here and there. We will clean that up.

As for user files and photo album images; 

They are not lost. Images and files missing from your blog post or images missing from your photo albums are still in the process of moving. To move them securely they are being transmitted slower with encryption. Within a few hours of posting this message all user files and photo album images will be restored.

A nutshell. The database needed to be in a more stable environment. It is on a new server and things should be more responsive.

If you have any issues contact help@blogtext.org

The Index Content option allows users to create a block of text on the index of their blog. This ( http://www.blogtext.org/member/blogOptions.html) option can be useful to have an introduction to your blog or it can be used as a table of contents for your blog pages. You can view your blog options (http://www.blogtext.org/member/blogOptions.html).

In tribute to rocketman bringing rain to regions in need, we created a theme "drop of water". Click the image to enlarge the image.

We have created a new blog with some ideas from other blogs. The theme is Gree Grass. If you have any ideas for themes send them to us. Click the image to enlarge preview.

 New theme TicTac - BlueBerry. To change your blog theme go to settings.

Yet another new theme added to the list. The latest theme is called The Pen. To use this theme visit your blog settings. A preview image is below, click the image for a larger view.

We received an email from one of our visitors asking for a theme that looked similar to one of the themes available at another blog site. In honor of this user and those who enjoy the Binary Blue Theme, BlogText has re-created the theme for BlogText users. You can preview your blog with this theme by going to your member settings. Again the name of the new theme is Binary Blue.

Below is a screen shot of the Binary Blue Theme. For a larger view, click the image.

We use the pingomatic.com service to ping users blogs all over the web. Thanks to these nice people we are able to ping 16 blog sites quick and easy.

For the last several weeks we have been using alternate pinging services. And now pinging resumes with pingomatic.com.

To increase your blog traffic, use the blog ping tool in the member area.

There are sux new built in themes. You can change your theme by going to your blog settings page.

• subway speed
• snow blue
• flower bloom
• powell street
• blogtxt
• electric brown

 The new BlogText editor supports video uploads. BlogText makes it easy to upload video files and set the playback options. Click here to view a quick demo that goes through adding video to your BlogText blog.