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New Comment Manager

October 6, 2007
Categorized in: Blog Development
The new Comment Manager for RealTown Blogs owners allows for quick and easy comment moderation.

RealTown Blogs BETA

September 11, 2007
Categorized in: Blog Development
Starred by: 1 Member
We have been heavily focused on improving your blogging experience with RealTown and have developed an entirely new public interface for you and your visitors. We value and respect your... [Read More]

Redirecting Your Blog to RealTown.com with 301

September 11, 2007
Categorized in: Blog Development
In the near future, RealTownBlogs.com will begin redirecting visitors to the new RealTown Blogs hosted by RealTown.com. In order to keep our members from losing any SEO rankings or searchability, we w... [Read More]

Email Your Blog with File Attachments

October 9, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
If you haven’t enabled the Email To Blog feature on your blog, now is the best time to do it. We have just added support for processing email attachments. This means you can now construct... [Read More]

New Default Template

September 28, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
The default template for new members of RealTown Blogs has been updated to match the sleek new look/feel of RealTown Blogs. My blog is currently using the new default template. New members will hav... [Read More]

RealTown Blogs Wish List

August 22, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
RealTown Blogs is always expanding with new features, updates, and tools to help any blogger (especially real estate bloggers) get their thoughts and ideas to the web. Here is what we have planned for... [Read More]

Featured Entries

June 30, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
Tagged with: blogs, blogteam, featured
Testing out Featured Entries. If a member is "Featured" or "Super-Featured", BlogTeam will automatically be added to their mailing list. I have temporarily made myself a &quo... [Read More]

JavaScript is Back!

June 20, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
JavaScript has been re-enabled on RealTown Blogs for all of our Members. Now you can add things like custom stat counters and other useful tools to your Blog! Of course, in order to protect our Mem... [Read More]

Categories Vs. Tags

June 15, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
As you may have noticed, we have just implemented tags here on RealTown Blogs. We already had an existing category system that was fairly powerful, with features like cross-posting between multiple ca... [Read More]

Comment Moderation on Entries

June 5, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
Tagged with: blogging, blogs, realtownblogs
Entries can now be set to approval mode for their comments.... [Read More]

RealTown Instant Messenger

May 26, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
We're busy working on integrating an existing open-source instant messaging client into RealTown. So far, it seems to work nicely with RealTownBlogs.com. You can probably see a button right under my a... [Read More]

Search Engine Optimization part 2

April 18, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
I've been working on the URL structure of our Blogs, and so far it's coming along nicely. My biggest concern was getting rid of the "?" in the URL. Having a "?" in the URL can caus... [Read More]

Small Update and Advanced Stats Coming Soon!

March 31, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
I've been making a few changes to the Blog system today. Nothing big, just a few graphical tweaks and adjustments here and there. I also have been working on a big update for the stats engine -- s... [Read More]

Multiple Categories

March 24, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
I just added support for assigning multiple categories to any entry. So now any of your entries can appear in any of your categories (or all of them if you want!). It's actually still a single instanc... [Read More]

Updates and Avatar Fixes

February 9, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
I've updated all of the Blog templates so your images should no longer be squished or squashed (or both). Now all it does is squeeze, but usually only as much as it needs to. If your Blog is still squ... [Read More]

Vendor Blog Template

January 30, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
I just finished creating the VendorBlog template. It matches the current VendorBlog homepage that I created not too long ago. My Blog is currently using the template, so that's why you might see the w... [Read More]

Profile Avatars Fixed

January 17, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
If any of you were wondering why yourprofile pics looked squashed or stretched, it's because of a small HTMLbug in the Blog scripts. I looked over this last night and found theproblem: the "im... [Read More]

Search Engine Optimization

January 13, 2006
Categorized in: Blog Development
I have been working on optimizing our Blog page for search engines by increasing its compatibility with search engines like Google, Yahoo, Lycos, MSN, etc. The biggest problem we have right now is the... [Read More]