page4 Blog released

As of now, you can install your own blog on your page4 website. A newsletter will follow shortly. For now, we provide you with a short overview of what you can expect.

1. You can either integrate the blog archive (the navigation of the blog) directly into the navigation of your homepage, by simply creating a page and linking it to the blog, or you can use a design with sidebar or/and lateral navigation and show the archive underneath the normal navigation or in the sidebar above the content of the sidebar. In addition, you can also combine both options.
2. Next to the archive, you can display lists and up to 5 links relating to the articles that a) were shown most frequently, b) received the most comments or c) the most recent articles that were written. These lists can be placed above or underneath the archive
3. In a dialogue you manage all of your blog entries and write new entries. All articles are published scheduled in time. All articles can be viewed directly in the overview.
4. Of course, a blog must include the opportunity to write comments. All comments are shown chronologically in the administration, and you can see at once whether and how many comments are not yet released. There are many options to control the release of the comments
5. A list with various services to „share“ an article is included as a standard. You can show this list or hide it. If the list is displayed, your visitors can share an article via Twitter, Facebook and others with just one click.
6. Currently, there is a fixed template to view the articles and for the navigation of the blog. The option of offering you the selection from a variety of drafts for your website is already in preparation. The design of your blog adapts ideally to the design of your website already at this point in time. Of course you can adapt many parameters to your own wishes, as had before.
7. An RSS-Feed for your articles is also already in progress, along with a Ping-service, to enable you to publish your articles.
8. Most of the design templates are already prepared for the blog, provided that a sidebar and/or a lateral navigation are available. With our option of integrating the blog navigation directly, as explained in Item 1), you are still able to use all drafts with one blog.

As you can see, the blog is pretty much complete and ideally supplements your website. We hope you enjoy it and wish you much success blogging on page4. 

Warm regards

Manfred F. Schreyer