Ok, I hope I didn't screw anything up!

I just added two features (which go hand in hand):

* The ability to create more blogs for your account (I think the limit is 2 or 3 right now under one account)

* The ability to create an account only for comments. When a user joins, on the page where they are asked to enter their blog information, there is a link that says "click here if you just want to leave a comment" (or something like that). Those people can choose to add a blog to their account in the future.

I did some quick tests and everything looks ok. Let me know if things don't seem to be working right.

-John

Just messing around with something and came up with this... it's not finalized, it's just a test version, but check it out and let me know what you think. Right now it is only using the first few hundred members icons, but my plan is to maybe have a random one each day.

Icon Collage

Ok, I can't take full credit for this (I saw this on another blog site and thought it looked interesting)... so decided to add it here. They asked people to write 100 interesting things about themselves in their blogs. Well, I decided why not add it as a part of the profile with it's own page so it would not be buried int the blog?

So here it is -- go to your profile edit page (in My Account) and edit the section at the bottom called "100 Interesting Things". You can add one per line -- no need to put them all in at once.

For now they appear in your profile page at the bottom and a link will appear in your blog once you start adding them. I'll look into more interesting ways to show the information or progress as time goes on.

This is just a test item now, it may not stay... let's see how everyone likes it!

I found a cool effect for the gallery that lets the image load right on top of the gallery page... it's really slick looking and allows you to browse a gallery more quickly. You need a modern browser and javascript for it to work... if you don't have either than the gallery "should" work the same old way as before.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

You can now place external website links in your blogs under a section called "Sites I Like"... Edit your Profile under My Account. There is a new box at the bottom to enter links, one per line. The format is explained there as well. I will make the editing of those links nicer in the future, but this was a quick way to add that functionality for now.