User Guides The TE Bloggers guide

[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]blog :[/font][size=-1]A short form for weblog, a personal journal published on the Web. Blogs frequently include philosophical reflections, opinions on the Internet and social issues, and provide a "log" of the author's favorite web links. Blogs are usually presented in journal style with a new entry each day. source

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Here are a list of tools, addons,utilities and general guide to what you can do to spruce up your blog ,maintain it from a phone ,online or your desktop, so whether its collaborative or personal, whatever the platform ,you can make your presence on the internet felt !
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Blog Providers
[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]No introductions needed for most of them,but you might find the comparison of popular online blogging software a good place to help you decide where to start a blog.
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Blogger :clap:,[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]now part of the google family is a free, hosted blogging tool. It's one of the oldest blogging tools around and today has millions of users. Blogger promises that you will be blogging within 10 minutes of coming to the site, and in fact does deliver on that. This tool is about the simplest one around, and though free, nonetheless has an impressive array of features.[/font]
WordPress :clap:is a solid, powerful blogging system ideal for publishers who are on a budget but who don't want to give up any functionality.WordPress promises a 5-minute installation, but for that to be true you do have to have some familiarity with uploading files to a Web server and using an FTP client.

Typepad:clap: is a hosted weblogging service that gives users the rich set of features to immediately share and publish information like travel logs, journals and digital scrapbooks, on the Web. Typepad.com has three levels of service.

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Chronicle Lite :clap:[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]provides a friendly client application for people who use Blogger.com for all of their journalling needs. It also looks to satisfy the needs of the "power users" who want to interact with files on their local computer, and publish them to their online journal. Helpful shortcut keys speed up editing of HTML content, and drag-and-drop support allows tags to be created simply by dropping a file onto the Chronicle Lite window[/font]
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YesI! [/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]a PHP application that allows you to build a tree-structured website via a browser. It lets you store text, images, grab webpages from other sites, share your data with others in a multi-user mode, create on-the-fly weblogs, store your contacts in the addressbook and store your appointments in the personal calendar

[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Geeklog [/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, weblinks, and more! It can run on many different operating systems, and uses PHP4 and MySQL[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]webpad [/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]a[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif] web-based text editor which gives the user access to files from: the users' computer, the server it's installed on, any remote FTP server, posting to Blogger.com accounts and even the source code of webpages[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]

[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Pivot [/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]a web-based tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals. Pivot is released under the GPL so it is completely free to use. It is written in PHP, and does not require additional libraries or databases to function[/font]
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[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Planarchy [/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]an application that lets you easily publish news, reports, statistics and so on to your website with ease. You do not need any knowledge of HTML (although it is an advantage) or require the use of an external FTP client. This is because Planarchy takes care of it for you[/font]
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif] Desktop Blogging

[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]w.bloggar :clap:Blogger API client,The w.bloggar is an application that acts as an interface between the user and one or more blog(s); in other words, it is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer.

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[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Radio UserLand :clap:An easy-to-use Weblog tool that runs on your desktop. Automatically builds your site, organizes and archives your posts, and publishes your content -- without any knowledge of HTML, FTP, or graphic design[/font]

Qumana WSYISYG, tags, drag and drop media support, drafts, publish to multiple blogs, multiple categories.

[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Zempt a desktop tool for the Movable Type content management system

[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]CityDesk runs on your Windows desktop, using any web server. Files uploaded via FTP

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[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]ecto a feature-rich desktop blogging client popular for MacOSX and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems[/font]
 
Audio & Video



Audioblogger :clap:lets you post audio to your blog from any phone.

Just dial a number and speak. The audio will automatically be posted and this comes from the makers of blogger,so no hassles of compatability,apart from maybe the toll number for users in india.

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Talkr:clap: provides a service that allows you to listen to your favorite text-only news sources rather than read them. Talkr can also provide you with a podcast of your favorite news sources

[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]BlogAmp a web audio player for bloggers. Blog-Amp can be positioned on a web page or displayed in a mini pop-up window. BlogAmp does not require listeners to use media player applications which means that everyone with a web browser can listen. For bloggers themselves it couldn’t be any easier when it comes to managing, programming and tracking their Blog-Amp. Simply upload any recorded MP3 files to your secure online media manager

[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]PhoneBlogger :clap:a tool for publishing to a blog via a phone call. It is an automated voice application that first asks you for info about which pre-configured blog you wish to post to. After collecting the necessary information, PhoneBlogger records your audio message. Finally, it posts a blog entry that links to the recorded audio

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[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]BlogFlix:clap: Use this blog and online service to add video effects (pan and zoom) to blog photos. Also delivers Flash video clips in a small frame in your blog. Just paste a snippet of code to make movies

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Administration
[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Adminimizer Toolbar The easiest tool for updating your Blog with Internet Explorer 6

[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif] blogBuddy A small Windows client providing a front-end to the blogger.com website

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[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]BlogFace provides a weblog-style interface to a cataloged collection of objects, without requiring that the catalog or entries be modified, or even know about the BlogFace at all. It will work with any catalog and collection of entry objects, so long as the catalog provides an ISO format date attribute for each entry record

[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]blogLinker a free tool to manage your web links on your blog/website and to dramatically increase traffic to your site. It can be embedded anywhere in your web page and can be easily configured to fit the existing design of your site. blogLinker is the only tool of its kind [/font]



[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Blogrolling.com This site provides a free, easy to use service to manage your buddy lists on your blog that works with every major blog tool and website.

Link2Blogs is a free text link exchange that provides blogs the ability to cross-promote each other. Member blogs display a tower containing text links and content in order to earn credits.

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Mobile & Handhelds

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AvantBlog :clap:a very simple interface which will allow you to post to a blog from your Palm or WinCE device via AvantGo

[/font]Mo:Blog mo:Blog is a great blogging app for Palm devices. mo:Blog let's you post text and images to most blog servers. The Mo:Blog development team seem to have some updates coming along in the near future:



[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Phlog :clap:[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]is the easiest way to share photos from your cameraphone or digital camera

[/font]VagaBlog Easy to setup and use, no image upload capability.

Kablog More of a phone app, but works well with a palm using IBM WME
http://</b>[url="http://www.handx.net/products/webLog/"handX weblog

Nice palm client, connects via hotsync, however it only works with a proprietary weblog server.

Forphotos

Very smart Palm application to upload photos to the Forphotos website via hotsync. Ideal for Palm Zire71 and 72 users.



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Needs to be downloaded via the PalmOne MideletHQ app.



[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Mfop2

[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif] Mfop2 allows you to moblog without setting up any special scripts on your own mail server.

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[/font]Futurice Photo BlogIf you have a Series 60 phone you can take the service in use otherwise you can only browse your friends blog site.

EasyMoblog is an open-source platform for personal weblogs and moblogs. It allows the creation of customizable and easy-to-use weblogs by sending email messages.
 
Subsciptions and Notifications

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Blogarithm a web service that let's you subscribe to blogs and be notified by email when they have new content. Also has a tool to generate stickers you can add to your own blog to make it easy for readers to subscribe to you. A way to be reminded about blogs you read and to generate more views of your blog.

[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Bloglet:clap:offers an email subscription service for your blog

[/font]Bot A Blog - Bot A Blog is a free service where "bots" send you simple text e-mails when your favorite blogs are updated and new entries are added.

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[/font]BlogRolling - This is a nifty little addon for your web site that will help you and your visitors keep track of the other blogs you frequently read. It will also alter the display of entries for blogs that have been recently updated so you'll know when something is fresh.

Counters and statistics

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BlogCounter Free comprehensive site statistics and web counter system for bloggers which tracks host/IP (both proxyfied & 'real' IP), referrers, Search Engine keywords, user agents, date & time, resolution & color, operating system, online time spent, page impressions, browsed page paths, currently online visitors and more!

[/font]AWStats :clap:is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages.

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Link Feedback see and show where your visitors come from! - a very simple set of links that you can insert into your pages to automatically track incoming links and echo them back to people who visit your site. Basically it's automated link-exchanging, but hopefully with more interesting results - Sean Nolan

[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Weblogs ping bookmarklet constructor Simple as can be: enter the name of your blog and its URL and click submit to get a page with a bookmarklet which will ping weblogs.com in a popup window whenever you select it from your links toolbar[/font]

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googlebox js online form for creating a googlebox [/font]

[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]GoogleBrowser this lets you browse Google recursively, finding connections between sites. Enter any URL, and then follow the arrows to see other related sites.[/font]

Lumberjack - This is a way for blog users who do not run their own servers to get common-log formatted access logs. Why? Well, the traffic analysis tools like Webalizer and Analog are really good, and with Lumberjack bloggers can use them for traffic analysis.

MicroURL - Keep track of which links on your blog draw away your readers, mask affiliate links and make displayed URLs super-short, all with the MicroURL service.



Content and aggregation

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Blog Navigator makes it easy to read blogs on the Internet. It integrates into various blog search engines and can automatically determine RSS feeds from within properly coded websites

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blogsnow 'reads' blogs, depending on what's going on between 100 and 240 a minute. Out of this stream of information it extracts links and displays them in different views every 10 minutes [/font]



[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]blogdex System built to harness the power of personal news, amalgamating and organizing personal news content into one navigable source [/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]
blogdexter Will help you jump to the page on blogdex that displays the web addresses of people who have linked to your URL[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]

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[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Browser addons

[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]JustBlogIt:clap: [/font] JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog. From any website your new blog post is only a right-click away.[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]

[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]MozBlog a tool to enable people to a blog with mozilla while they surfing [/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]
myMediaList a free, web-based tool for all blogs. It lets you embed and remotely manage a list of music, books, films and computer games anywhere in your blog/webpage. Fully customizable design. Beats coding html; just copy and paste a single line of code

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TextRouter:clap:paste text to Blogger.com or Manila weblogs

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Photo Blogging

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Flickr helps in Photo blogging, photo organising, photo storage and peer-to-peer photo sharing online tool.
Hello BloggerBot is an enhancement photo blogging and peer-to-peer sharing software from Picasa. It works with a Blogger.com weblog.
SnapLog Photo Blog is BETA software. A description of this tool from the site is as follows: SnapLog is a Windows XP/2000/98 application that provides an easy interface to share photos on your website.
Zorpia is an online social networking site with blogging and photo blogging features.



Buzznet lets you post your photos in this photo blog provider via a camera phone, email or the web. Buzznet has several features, including an active community of photo bloggers. It's one of the best moblog tools available.

 
Feedback & Comments

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[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]BlogBack [/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Allows visitors to comment on your weblog posts, without the need to host the service yourself [/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]

Blogbox [/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Blogboxes provide exciting, instantly deployed functionality for your blog or Web site. They are free for non-commercial use

ishoutbox [/font]These are small frames of messages that allow users to post a quick message, much like a mini forum.

shoutmix :clap:Get a shoutbox for your blog or website and get instant feedbacks and comments from your visitors. It is like a mini chat room or guestbook.

Geo-Loc shows the location of your visitors of your blog in a nice little graphic map.

Chat

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[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]BlogChat [/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif]a browser-based chat window that you can attach to your weblog or site. When you are online your visitors can engage in a text discussion with you in real time. The chat can be a popup window or you can embed it right in the page. All you have to do is put some links on your page, we provide the service. If you run PHP and mySql, you can host your own single blogchat by running the original free version.

[/font]ZonkBoard[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif] is a spiffy blabber board made specifically with weblogs in mind. It's simple to use and simple to set-up! If you've already got a ZonkBoard, go ahead and log in now to configure it. Otherwise, sign-up and grab one now!

[/font]Your-IRC.net[font=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Sans-serif] offers a javachat applet that guests can add simply to their websites to allow visitors to join their chat room.

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Blog Templates



Bejewelled Not a huge selection, but breathakingly beautiful work here.

BlogDesigns Fast becoming the authoritative resource for weblog templates. A huge variety here from different artists, with enough scope and style to satisfy everyone's tastes.

BlogSkins Apply these custom templates instantly to your Blogger-powered blog. Excellent idea, still a little thin on designs as it's very new, but keep your eye on it in the future.

Elated Page Kits Some of the best visual design I've seen available online. Not all designs are necessarily suitable for a blogger template, but most of them would work with a little jigging. Fun to visit even if you aren't in the market for a blog design.

groovy lizard Fabulous designs, mainly illustrations. Fun and funky.

EyeForBeauty - Templates for your Journal "Traditional" designs with done with a more modern flair.
 
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