Sleddoggin.com Blogs

Hello Blog Members,

Hopefully everyone has had a wonderful Christmas,

as I know my family and I did!

I would like to let all members know at this time of the new

advertising system that has been implemented site wide across the blogging system. How the system works is that it chooses

relevant keywords to highlight, which will then display an ad when hovered over. This system has been chosen over many

others, as I felt it is an unobtrusive way to include ads to support the blog system; yet still maintain a clean look. Though

ads are an unwanted aspect of the internet, they are necessary to help fund the development and hosting fees associated with

running this free blogging system.

The entire system is still in the testing phase, so please ignore ads that aren’t

targeted to the topic and different colors - these problems should be fixed within the next couple of weeks.

Also, if

you are wondering - the donation button the SledDoggin.com Blogs home page has been removed.

Please let me know your

thoughts regarding this ad option, as I would like to hear all comments.

Have a wonderful day,

Christian

Hollingsworth

Hello To

All,

Recently it came to my attention that the SledDoggin.com Blogs home page sidebar was not rendering well in

Internet Explorer. (there were dots, postitions weren’t right, etc…) This problem is now fixed and working well. Also, the

sign up page in FireFox wasn’t working well either so that bug has been fixed too.

As for the constant battle against

spammers, a new site feature has been implemented to reduce the amount of fake blogs (splogs), that we get each day. Now when

you sign up for a blog a simple question will be asked of you; along the lines of simple math or sled dog related questions.

This will eliminate the problem of the spam robots that constantly roam the blogs. Though we may accosionally get some splogs

that get through the system, this will help cut down on the amount we recieve daily.

As for comment spam, hopefully

the new Akismet plugin has been doing its job well for everybody! It’s a VERY smart program that eliminates all of the spam

each blog would receives in the comment areas, and learns each time you mark a comment as spam. To help un-clutter our system

resources we ask that you routinely check your spam folders (maybe once a month), and delete the spam comments Akismet has

caught. If you go to COMMENTS -> Akismet Spam, you will see all of the comments that WOULD HAVE been published on your

site if it wasn’t for the spam filter Akismet. After you have looked through all of the comments and made sure no “legit”

comments have been accidentally put into this folder, click the DELETE ALL button at the top of the page. This will delete

all of the spam comments in this folder, and free up some of our database memory.

Thank you for your participation and

cooperation in helping to fight spam…

Cheerful Trails,

SledDoggin.com Blogs

I just uploaded a brand new theme titled

“Winter,” as a new theme you can choose for your blogs. I think it’s an awesome looking theme, and hope that you all enjoy

it for the winter season!