Posted by
ChrisR on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:48:40 AM
Welcome to the new Townhall User Blog interface. We appreciate your support of the website through last several years and we hope you enjoy this upgrade.
Many new features have been added, including:
- The Blog Dashboard is the "home page" for personal blog information.
- Townhall Talk is a new feature which will allow the Townhall team to better communicate with users. Here we will post any relevant news, tips, or changes that may affect the user blogs. Here we will also address community issues in order to keep the users up to date with Townhall information.
- Individual bloggers can now have more than one blog.
- Users can post on multiple blogs (when invited by the blog manager).
- There is an entirely new posting interface with expanded features, including the ability to easily insert media into blog posts (such as YouTube videos).
- There is a new, more stable WYSIWYG editor.
- Users now have the ability to write HTML code into a blog.
- There is now a categorized blog roll.
- The stability of the system is vastly increased.
- The engineers have taken huge steps to make sure that the blogs function more consistently.
- Users can now export a report into Excel.
- Blogs are now hosted at a new URL - blogtownhall.com - which old URLs will redirect to.
- The Blogatorium has been modified so that a post can only show up once - updating a post will not make it appear again.
Some features will be coming soon:
- A standard Code of Conduct for blog posts and comments will be hosted on Townhall Talk
- Bloggers will be able to moderate comments.
Please let us know of any feedback regarding the new interface and enjoy!