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Volksblog.com will no longer display remote images on the frontpage of the portal. This is one part of our plan to increase the performance of the portal’s introduction to your blogs. If you are unfamiliar with local and remote images, let me explain. Remote images are images that are linked from another site. While it is OK for you to have them in your blog, we have chosen not to include it in the general area. The performance of Volksblog.com will be at the mercy of the remote site. Local images are files you upload to your blog section. Every user has this option. If you are not familiar with this function, please take a complete look at this feature in the “Write Post” section of the administration console.

-Mark

Our randomly selected winner, with an active blog is Benjamin Watson (www.volksblog.com/volkswatson). He is this year’s VolksBlog.com Thanksgiving winner of a new reproduction Jr. Coca-Cola cooler. We think this would be and excellent addition to his current restoration project. Benjamin, thank you for contributing to your blog and ultimately helping the Volkswagen Community with your words of wisdom.

Sincerely,
-Mark Whitsett

In the next few days, there will be a modification to the front page of the portal. We are going to take one image from your blog if any and display it on the front page. The image willl be modified and properly thumbnailed for a faster load. We haven’t decided as of yet, but the image might be the first picture or randomly selected upon page load to make things more dynamic.

Please comment if you would like to make a suggestion to better the layout of this site. Your input is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

-Mark

We are please to announce that we have released our first beta version of Google Adsense Support. Now users can start making some cash for writing good content on their blog. All you have to do is create an account and log into the administrative panel to active your blog with your Google Client Number. Since this is a beta release, not all templates have been update to support this feature (most). If you are not interested in making money, feel free to enable the Adsense with the default Adsense Client Number and you would be effectively helping to fund this site’s existence.

To drive more traffic to your blog try registering your blog with a Blog-sphere sites like Technorati and/or Bloglines. Also, adding your blog site to your e-mail and forums signature file will also help in driving clickable traffic to what you have to say.

If you would like to make any suggestions, feel free to e-mail admin@volksblog.com with your comments. Your comments are always welcome.

-Mark