PixyBlog Discussion

Hi Richard,

for some time now I thought it would be nice to also have some sort of text-blog integrated in my blog. Not that I have the feeling, that I have something serious to say, but I thought it would be a sweet addition.
I came across a the blogging platform Tumblr and it turned out, that it's very easy to set up and easy to integrate into Pixyblog. I have now, simply included the site via an iFrame, but they also offer the possibility to include it via javascript and the customize the post via CSS. The latter I haven't tried yet, due to my lack of CSS

They do not have the abilty to post comments, but this also may be integrated via the service Disqus. I haven't checked that out yet.

I will still have to tweak the tumblr blog a little more, so that it integrates better with my Pixyblog, but you can have a look at it here if you want to and let me know what you think.

http://from10to300mm.pixyblog.com/page/MyTumblr

Cheers,

Sven

Okay, it seems I was a little too enthusiastic about this. Whereas the iFrame thingy works sweet in Safari, it doesn't seem to render so well in IE or Firefox. The width is correct but the height isn't.

I know you have better things to do, but do you have an idea how to fix this easily? Any help like usually appreciated.

Hi,

Just to give an update; Outside of this forum I've been talking with Sven about trialling our new Weblog (or text blog) feature. We've had a number of requests for such a feature in the last year and although it's not quite ready for release yet, we've set-up Sven with a beta version of the Weblog.

We're now working to get the Weblog integrated with his Photoblog, and although we have a number of small issues to overcome we now have a working version online here: http://17mm.pixyblog.com/.

We're not far-off releasing this feature, so watch our news blog for more information.

Cheers,

Richard

Hey RJ

How is the weblog development going?

635 Richard (As I will henceforth call myself )

Hey 635 Richard,

It's getting there. You can see that we've got Sven's photoblog nicely integrated with his text blog. The functionality is mostly done, what's holding us back releasing the text blog is that the text blog themes do not match our photoblog themes. We have a number of existing themes for our text blogs, but none which integrate seamlessly with our photoblogs; which is what most people want.

For those of you who want to help beta-test having a text blog working alongside your photoblog let us know and we can get this set-up for you, but if you want to get the theme integrated into your photoblog design you will need some knowledge of HTML and CSS... we will help you with any questions in the forum.

Cheers,

Richard

Richard

I would like to help and beta test. While I'm not HTML/CSS genius, I think my blog design would be easy to incorporate.

635 Richard