More pLog sites: blog.vg.no
10/05/2005 22:22 | Categories: LifeType | 4 Comments
If a couple of days ago I was praising Blogio's pLog installation, today it's time for VG's blogs. As far as I know, VG is the biggest media group in Norway and they decided to use pLog for their blogs, which I have to say is a great thing 
At the moment it looks like they've got 3 blogs: Teknoisme (technology stuff), Spillblog (videogames), and Oddleiv (football or sports in general) They might have more than these 3, but since I cannot read Norwegian very well and their main page is a bit too busy, I can't find any more... I really like the design that they've used, by the way.
All the blogs seem to be quite busy, specially the football one... Look at this post: 447 comments! This must be the post with the biggest amount of posts I've ever seen in pLog
It's nice to see that big companies out there are not only trusting in pLog for their blogs, but also on the open-source community in general...
Speaking of Norwegian blogs, Blogportalen.no also launched a while ago but looks like there hasn't been any update since the 15th of April... 
Hopefully it will be updated sometime soon!
Support for pLog in ecto
07/05/2005 04:01 | Categories: Apple, LifeType | 0 Comments
Ecto, my favourite blog desktop publishing client has got support for pLog. I contacted the Ecto developer a while ago and he agreed to include it in the next release so here it is
It uses the metaWeblog APi by default, so that users can also upload media files easily. Enjoy
Blogio.de: a new pLog site
06/05/2005 18:23 | Categories: LifeType | 2 Comments
Blogio is one of the newest pLog-powered sites, but it probably also is the nicest I've ever seen They've done a lot of customizations like a completely new front page, they're showing the user picture by default in all templates, subdomains are enabled by default and each blog has its own "Impressum" page which is something that I believe is required by the German law.
If I could, I would propose Blogio as a role model for future pLog sites. Way too often people expect that pLog fulfils all their needs and requirements out of the box, and that is not our goal because pLog was built to be customized. It is very annoying to see that people cannot be bothered to spend a few hours (or a couple of days) customizing pLog to make it look the way they like and expect us to do it for them... The Blogio folks were willing to make a small effort and the results are outstanding. Congratulations!
More pLog praise (but only in Spanish!)
20/04/2005 02:08 | Categories: LifeType | 3 Comments
Thanks to the guys at blog-cool.com and blografias.com, their pLog-powered service has been reviewed at Bicubic (I have to admit that I didn't know about this blog 
) and the outcome is very much positive The reviewer has some feedback about our "dashboard" screen but luckily that's something that we can quickly fix! I'm also very happy that this is the only negative point that he found in the service.
Congratulations to the blog-cool.com guys and our most sincere thanks for helping promoting the project amongst the Spanish-speaking community!
Pure CSS image maps
19/04/2005 03:14 | Categories: LifeType | 0 Comments
Today I needed to create a simple image map but the image was being placed on the page via CSS and not via an <img ...> tag, so I had to look for a solution that used only CSS. Here you have it: Create a reactive zone (image map) with CSS, which apparently is a simplification of this article from A List Apart.
Hope you find it useful too
On the popularity of pLog...
14/04/2005 20:45 | Categories: LifeType | 0 Comments
pLog is finally gettting some recognition... It's about time
How about being finalist in the 2004 Blogging awards of Bitacoras.com (Spanish site)
How about listing pLog in the Spanish edition of the wikipedia, for the word "weblog"?
How about more communities than we could ever hope for, all over the world?
How about having our own FreeBSD package?
I like it