The beta test of the blog comments feature has been started.  When activated the beta test allowed your readers to post comments about your blog.  The comments go into a queue allowing you to approve insightful comments and questions while...

In the previous post we demonstrated that a YouTube video can be embedded in you blog postings.  Here's how: Go to YouTube.com and find your video. Look for the text field labeled "Embed" to the right of the video box.  &q...

YouTube video can be embedded directly in a blog post.    

While 4Syndication allows almost limitless flexibility in cusomizing the look and feel of your blog, in certain circumstances it's nice to embed an RSS feed in an existing page. Using JavaScript, the RSS feed can be used to populate a list...

A few of our clients have requested the ability to post items to multiple blogs.  The copy content feature that was enabled on March 16, 2007 is our implementation of that request. The feature is enabled through a "Copy Content To..."...

The 4Syndication application was updated this evening, March 16, 2007 at 8PM EDT, to enable a "copy content" feature. The server was not restarted and there should have been no interruption to the services.

The new 4Syndication version goes live on Monday. One of the major fixes is a Javascript function that automatically turns all links in your content into "forward" links that can be tracked by the 4Syndication system. There is no more need to hard cod...

Here's a technical tip for those progammers out there using any form of database backed web development. Suddenly, last week, my development server stopped connecting to my database. I tried everything to fix it. I expanded GRANTS to t...

The instructions for creating a tracked link to a url in a blog post has a problem. When the url that you are linked to has GET parameters the browser doesn't know which parameters belong to the blog and which belong to the tracked url. For example ...

How to track "click through" in blog postings.