The photo maintenance has been complete. The service is back to running as usual. The need for maintenance has come about due to the increase in the interest in blogtext.

BlogText is going to be moving to a new data center within the next week to handle the resources blogtext requires to operate. This move will increase blog load performances. Details on this move will be posted here.

If you have any questions or comments please contact us using this form.

Maintenance to user photos is going to put that service of blogtext on pause for several hours. Please check back later to upload images to your photo blog. Your photo images appear to be missing, this is not the case, they are still there.

The rest of blogtext is working like normal.

The earlier version of the xml/rss feeds at blogtext did not fully validate. The data could still be interpreted correctly and used in xml/rss feed programs.

The latest update to users feeds now validate with all of the popular xml/rss validators found around the web.

You can test your blog entry xml/rss feeds by copying and pasting the link below into the validator you choose. Replaced yourusername with your blogtext username.

Your blog xml/rss feed:
http://www.blogtext.org/yourusername/rss/indexFeed.xml

Validation. These sites check xml/rss for proper validation:

http://www.feedvalidator.org/ 
http://rss.scripting.com/

What is XML/RSS?
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C initiative that allows information and services to be encoded with meaningful structure and semantics that computers and humans can understand. XML is great for information exchange, and can easily be extended to include user-specified and industry-specified tags.

A new adsense option in user settings allows users to make money with their blogtext account. By using your Google adsense client id for content, your id will be inserted into Google ads served on your blog.  

Adsense System: We have setup the adsense system to display users adsense id's in Google ads 50% percent of the time. This means every other time one of your blog pages is displayed, your Google adsense banner will be shown. 

If you already have an adsense account you can type your Google adsense client id into your blog settings. If you need information on finding your Google adsense client id, look below in this entry for "Finding My Google Adsense Id". 

If you are not familiar with adsense or do not have an adsense account, to say it simply, Google adsense is our way of placing targeted ads on pages. We use Google adsense for displaying advertisements. Google adsense displays ads that are related to the content that is on any given page. This is targeted advertising creates revenue. What we are saying now is you can use your Google adsense account on your blogtext pages. This allows you to make money with your blogtext blog. You can sign up for an adsense account with Google using the image below:

Why does blogtext let users make money? Because the users are what this site is all about. It is the users who write the content and make this site work. What better reward for time well spent in the blogtext community? 

Finding My Google Adsense Id: You can find your Google adsense id by logging into your Google adsense account at Google's site: https://www.google.com/adsense/account-settings 

Once you login click "My Account" at the top. Scroll to the bottom of the page and look for "Property info". Here you will need to look for "Adsense for Content". Your adsense for content number should look like "ca-pub-1234567891123456". When you enter your adsense for content id in the blogtext settings page, you will remove the "ca-" and enter "pub-youradsenseidhere" without the quotes.

If you need further help, please contact support.

Saying we like our users is an understatement. We like you guys more than you know. We are working on a new feature that will allow you to run your own adsense ads on your blogtext blog.

As you already know blogtext allows you to run your own blog and photo blog. A new feature that will be released soon, will allow you the user make money on your blogtext blog. This can be done using your googles adsense account.

If you are familiar with Googles adsense this will be easier for you to understand. If you would like to sign up for a google adsense account and find out more about what it is, use the image below.

Adsense Quick Note: Depending upon the content that is on a given blogtext page, google adsense will generate text advertisements related to that content. In its basic form it creates advertisements based on what is on the web page.

We use google adsense ads because they are non intrusive text ads. These ads help us pay the bill for hosting many blogs. We want to give back to our users by sharing the profits fifty / fifty. That means if your blog received 50 page views 25 of those page views will show your adsense banner, allowing you to make money off of your blog.

When this feature is up and running an email will be sent out with information along with a post in our help blog.

Leave questions and comments below.

As you may have noticed the past couple of days many entries were missing from blogs and users could not sign in. We were running database maintenance when something went wrong. As the optimize was running more and more entries started to disappear. When it was realized that a lot of entries were missing we decided to stop users from signing in. This would prevent data corruption/confusion and an easy fix.

The only data missing during the last three days were users blog entries. Not to be taken lightly, blog entries are very important.

Many urgent messages were sent to our host asking to retrieve important daily database backups, it wasnt until today that our request was noticed. Not many minutes before this post, our data is restored. The data has been replaced. The three day delay in response from our host was very frustrating for us.

With a deep sincerity, I apologize for the inconvenience.

There some new changes to blogtext that include the member section of their blog account.

The blog entry editor has been changed to allow the users to change the date the entry was entered. There is also a new feature to allow the entry to be rated. Details of entry rating will be detailed out soon.

Another improvement that rocketman and a lot of others users will enjoy is the change that merged the intro text and extended text into the same field. If you dont know what these means, its ok not to know.

More to come, stand by. Have thoughts? Leave comments.

Several important changes to the photo album have gone into affect. When browsing images inside an album visitors can navigate through the images a lot easier with the next and previous links at each image.

There is also a slide show feature that allows users to browse album images faster and efficiently. You can see the slide show feature in action here. You examples of these new features at this link.

Fixed bug that did not show all entries in the search results when a user searches for blog entries to edit or delete inside the member area.

Fixed bug that did not show spell check button when creating a new entry.

Post comments and suggestions below. Remember this is the help blog.

When creating blog entries use the new abc button to spell check your entry. Look for this button:

You might want to add words to your spell check dictionary. The spell check dictionary allows users to add words they do not want the spell checker to check for anymore. Each user has their own dictionary.