It’s been terrific to watch the rapid expansion of the myblog.arts service. We now have more than 2,000 members – and over the last month we have had more than 300,000 page views. Thanks to all those who have contributed their inspiring content. Has myblog.arts inspired you, or helped you to discover new networking opportunities? […]
We have had quite a few people who have signed up for an account here at myblog.arts, but missed the step of creating a personal blog. They are then confused to find that they can’t make blog posts. I’ve updated the Frequently Asked Questions on the Help page to explain how to create a personal […]
If you are a Twitter fan, you will be familiar with referencing other Twitter users using @username tags. This feature exists in myblog.arts too – I’ve just re-enabled it after making a few tweaks. For the moment it only works in updates you make in your profile pages, or in discussion forums. (This is a […]
First time myblog.arts users are now redirected to the Welcome page when first creating an account. Greetings to all our users and visitors! From http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/welcome.htm : Language Welcome Afrikaans Welkom Albanian Mirë se vjen Arabic (Egyptian) (ahlan wa sahlan) أهلاً و سهلاً Arabic (Modern Standard) (ahlan wa sahlan) أهلاً و سهلاً Armenian (Eastern) Բարի գալուստ! […]
The link to ‘See all recent’ posts was broken by a recent update – I’ve fixed it now, along with an issue where posts would be duplicated on the recent posts page when they were updated by their authors. The ‘see all recent posts’ page is now a great way to browse through content on […]
There was a problem with the search function when searching for users to invite to a group. It should be fixed now. […]
myblog.arts goes from strength to strength. We recently had our 1000th member sign up for an account, and visits to the site have been at an all-time high this month. Congratulations to us! Image by andyp uk […]
It wasn’t possible to upload avatar image files with upper case extensions (e.g. JPG instead of jpg). Now it is! […]
Please create a profile picture, also known as an avatar, when you create a myblog.arts account. To upload an image, please go to My Account -> Profile -> Change Avatar. The image will then appear next to your posts on the front page of myblog.arts. Alternatively, you can go to Gravatar.com and upload an image […]
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I’ve just made some changes so that the urls of member pages now use users’ first names and last names joined together, instead of their login username. This was because for students, the username is the student ID, and we don’t want to display that next to the user’s real name. So while your profile […]
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