Are you curious to know who and when people are reading your weight loss thoughts? If you have a gold membership then you can now see who were the last 20 people that visited your blog and the time and date they dropped by. You can then click on a direct link to their blog to return the visit and see how they are doing. This option is available in the community section of your account administration page.
Use more than one language and different characters for post titles !?=$&/
The type of characters that you can use in the post titles has now been extended and you can write them in any language and use ! and ? for example.
Write more when you contact someone
Previously the contact me form on the blogs had a limit of approximately 200 characters, perhaps a bit limiting when you want to introduce yourself to someone. This has now been extended and you can write up to approximately 1000. Start contacting people now!
Keep track of your friends more easily
Your friends list has been changed so that it now shows the displayname of the person’s blog, rather than the title, some of you commented that the blog title can be changed and sometimes it was confusing to keep up with which blog belonged to which friend!
Access your blog from two addresses!
FYI - Your blog is now accessible from two addresses, the existing one (as the subdomain), and as a subdirectory. For example, the news blog is viewable on http://news.extrapounds.com and http://www.extrapounds.com/blog/news . This is to help improve our google ranking and perhaps makes it a little easier to surf around various blogs by changing the last word of the address.
Have fun!
The Extrapounds.com Team
Posted By: extrapounds
Comments to this post:
03/15/2007 15:32
NEW MODEL
Hey Alexia has reached her goal and lost 85 lbs!!! I think she needs to be a new model on the frontpage!
Will we ever have the ability to enter in our own calorie count from working out with equipment that is not listed in the activity log? I know I use a lot of equipment and take classes that are not listed, but I know the basic calorie information... I would love to keep track of them on EP also, instead of just in a paper journal, but as of now, I can only choose from set activities.. Just a thought. -Chelly
Thanks for your comments, it's great to hear from you. We have been in touch with Alexia so I hope that she will soon agree to share her success story and feature on the homepage! Congratulations Alexia!!
Chelly - thanks for the feedback... we have lots and lots of ideas that we are working on at the moment and are introducing new things week by week, so we are certianly looking at ways to improve this section, with perhaps the option add own exercises to the database, like the food section. We have taken your comments on board and will work on it.
Brownbabe - Nice work on your blog design!! Great motivational picture! The designers and programmers are working on making it easier to change the design at the moment so that more people can do this, so that is a more of a priority. Having said that it won't be possible to change the actual structure/layout of the blog.
Keep in touch with your feedback and keep an eye on this blog to learn about any changes to the site.
I was just on the homepage and looked up and was so happy to see members up there instead of the fake looking guy with the laptop... Way to Go EP.... This is such a great site and you do very well listening to your members. That is really awesome. You all ae great... I LOVE all the new additions. Thanks EP
Can you make it so that we can reply to comments made on our blog right when we see the comment? Instead of going to that persons latest entry and posting a "reply" on their entry?
Maybe there is a way to go about this that I dont know about? Thanks!
I was just looking at my community page and noticed for the very first time that icon about seeing who has visited our blogs.....that was so cool! I love this feature! I was wondering how the heck I missed it so I came here and sure enough, you had announced it. Anyway, very cool. Thanks.
And I hope we get to see Alexia up there soon, too! Congrats to her!
Thanks for the message, I have contacted you through your blog to ask you for a bit more information. Do you mean like I am doing now, I haven't understood whose blog your want to reply on - yours or theirs? Sorry!!
Shelley! Hi! It is a cool feature very interesting!
