Hope Church Blogs

100,000 HITS!!

Hope Blog Admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:54:38 +0000

This month the ‘blogs.hopepres.com’ site as a whole surpassed the 100,000 hits mark. By my calculations that makes the fact that we are blogging ‘official’. For more info on how to get a Hope Pres blog or for info on a specific blog, check out the tool bar to the right.

Lots of New Themes!!

Hope Blog Admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:51:10 +0000

Over 100 new themes have been added to the Hope Blog server! Login to your blog and check them out. Click on the picture below to see screen zoomable screen shots in a new window.

Are You Ready For A GRAvatar??

Hope Blog Admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:42:31 +0000

What is a gravatar?

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?

Stay up to date with The Gravatar Weblog

How do I get a gravatar?

Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled weblogs!

How do I get gravatars on my weblog?

Setting up gravatars on your weblog is easy, you don’t even need an account! Plugins are available for leading weblog software, and our tutorials will have you running gravatars in no time. To request a gravatar from our servers, you simply add an image to your comments area with an “src” attribute that points to our gravatar image generator and includes an MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address. Since all gravatars are rated with an MPAA style rating, you can restrict your site to show only gravatars whose content you are comfortable with.

Forms Are Here!!

Hope Blog Admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:23:38 +0000

Customized forms are now available for your blog site!!

You can now set up online sign up forms or any other kind of form, have the results emailed to you OR you can download the results (all or some) to an Excel spreadsheet!! For more info contact Jay or Jack.

Good Info!!

Hope Blog Admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:47:30 +0000

Some really good books on managing and developing your own blog on our blog system:

First Things First…

Hope Blog Admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:59:01 +0000

FYI!! - Before you make any mods to your new blog add a new post. Some of the newer plugins need to have at least one post item to build their code base from.

Administering Your Blog

Hope Blog Admin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:58:07 +0000

Here is a link to the Wordpress site (the design team for our blog management system) to give you some more info about working with your blog. Installation guides will not apply but most of the other info will be very useful. If you have questions contact Jay Wilson at Hope.

New Widgets and Plugins

Hope Blog Admin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:51:44 +0000

A lot of really cool “gadgets” are available for use on Hope’s Blog Server for use on your ministry’s blog site(s). In an effort to show a working examples of a few of them, we have setup a “guinea pig blog” ;). Check out Jay Wilson’s Blog in the Hope Blogs link list in the sidebar to see some of what can be done on your blog(s)!