Onvertigo Media
We are getting closer to the official release of Onvertigo Media which will be the new video and audio site for our members. I have it working right now on a software called PHP Motion which allows you to have a video site much like YouTube. It is really cool! After testing it out more, getting it integrated with the users of Onvertigo Bloggers and a few cosmetic changes, we will be beta testing with a few users! Contact me if you are interested!
Here are a couple of screenshots for an idea of what it is like!
Global Posts and Tags
We are happy to launch our new global posts blog! This blog will showcase all the posts from the community and used as a great way to showcase what everyone is posting on their blogs! It will be populated as people blog! It is based on the great plugin from Donncha and is a wonderful way to have all the posts from our public blogs in one place.
This blog is not archiving what has already been blogged previous, but all posts from here on out will be! Should be fun! It also provides a place to search all content from all blogs and have global tags to look at!
YouTube, Flick Video, Embeds, Etc.
May 20, 2008 by trent
Filed under new features, site news
After doing some serious thinking on this issue and the inability to find a video plugin that works for multiple services, we have decided to allow embedding in posts. So what does this mean? When you are viewing a youtube video, flickr video or something similar, it usually has a “share” embed code. Now you do the following:
- Copy the embed code
- In “write post” click the HTML tab
- Paste embed code
- In “write post” click the Visual tab
- Finish writing your post
It really is that simple! Have fun!
New Administration Dashboard
April 28, 2008 by trent
Filed under new features, site news
We have officially launched our new administration area with the recent upgrade! Things are going to look quite a bit different than you are used to, but it really is a great change! As well, the admin pages are also going to load much faster now that we have the security (ssl) only on the login and profile pages now. It is just as secure as before, but we realized that securing “everything” in the admin was overkill and slowing things down!
We are still working on the new “login” page look since this is now changed, so it will be back when we can! Try it out and don’t forget to let me know what you have for comments on the new look and functionality!
Themes Should Be 100%
Currently, we are running 104 themes on Onvertigo Bloggers! While we plan on adding more as we go, that is many ways to customize the look of your blog! Several of the themes also allow you to upload your own header image and many have customization available to easily change around colors and built-in images! Once you activate a theme in your Dashboard => Presentation, don’t forget to check out your options on the same page!
After getting some feedback from existing users (thank you!), there were some of the themes that wouldn’t play well with the administration bar for logged in users. This should be fixed now for all the themes on the service with the exception of “Fresh Bananas” and “Redoable”. These themes need some TLC and should be working as well really soon!
After awhile here, we are going to release a page that shows the themes that are available on this main page. It should be fun! Customize away!