December 15th, 2010 | 
Author: Thats right, now the infamouse, must read tutorials, how to, zazzle info, what to do and not to do book on the internet. If it concerns zazzle and zazzlers its in this book.
This amazing compilation of facts, myths and information from the one and only Steven/ aka SoftProduct/ aka The Angry Squirrell has gotten tons of great reviews in the zazzle forums and from many respectable internet ratings sites.
You really really need to cruise thru this book wether your brand new or been around for a while, theres definitly some information for all levels to use and learn by.
We now have our own custom link to our copy of the book. For now its free access to everyone, but very soon it will become limited access to ZBlog Pros.
Take a look and see what all the hype is about………..youll be glad you did. The link is in our main menu on the right side here in the resources section.
Enjoy
Bill on behalf of the Angry Squirrel.
You can now use the world famouse gwolle guestbook on your ZBlog. Thats right, the guestbook plugin is now available to all ZBlog users. Its super easy to setup, just activate, click on settings in the new admin menu for the guestbook, then add the small piece of shortcode to the page or even widget you want it in and BAM… instant guestbook for your visitors to sign. Gets some interaction going with your visitors and potential customers.(you can see it in action here just look in the “HotStuff” menu for the guestbook and leave us a message)
Look at some of the benefits of this great guestbook below and youll see why we chose it for ZBlogs……….
- Simple and clean interface that integrates seamlessly into /wp-admin.
- Easy import of DMSGuestbook entries into Gwolle-GB.
- Notification by mail when a new entry has been posted.
- Moderation, so that you have to check an entry before it is visible in your guestbook (can be turned off).
- Recaptcha integration. (Fighting spam!)
- Akismet integration (Fighting spam, too!)
- Localisation (currently english, german, french, spanish, polish and dutch). Own languages can be added very easily, check WP documentation on this. If you translated the plugin I’d be glad to include your language in a future release, so please send them to my via mail, thanks!
- different-styled admin entries, so that the visitor can tell which entry is written by the ‘real admin’
- a log for each entry, so that you know which member of the staff released and edited an article to the public and when.
- IP-address- and host-logging with link to WHOIS query site
- Smiley integration (uses the WordPress smiley engine)
- Easy uninstall routine for complete removal of all database changes.
Now you can keep up with the stats on your ZBlog just like they do at wordpress.
There are hundreds of plugins and services which can provide statistics about your visitors. However I found that even though something like Google Analytics provides an incredible depth of information, it can be overwhelming and doesn’t really highlight what’s most interesting to me as a writer. That’s why Automattic created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface.
Installing this stats plugin is much like installing Akismet, all you need is to put in your API Key and the rest is automatic.
Once it’s running it’ll begin collecting information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page. Less is more.
Finally, because all of the processing and collection runs on our servers and not yours, it doesn’t cause any additional load on your hosting account. In fact, it’s one of the fastest stats system, hosted or not hosted, that you can use.
Already uploaded to ZBlogs, just activate the plugin in your admin page, then setup the API key. Wich is free also.
Just what you needed, right? Well we have tested and unleashed another 6 premium themes from Elegant Themes. These are known worldwide as the most customizable themes anywhere on the market, and we have them here at ZBlogs. Pros automatically get access to all the Elegant Themes by selecting PremiumThemes in the “appearance” tab of the ZBlog admin section.
The newest themes are..
eGallery Theme
eGamer Theme
eElegant Estates
eNews
ePhoto
eStore
Enjoy everyone……..
Bill
After tons of upgrades and modifications ZBlogs blogs now offers Pro’s the option of using Platinum SEO plugin with their ZBlog. With Platinum SEO, you can add specific tags, meta words, meta phrases and control tons and tons of specific items just for your ZBlogs to help give you total access and control over everything on your blog.
Now this tool combined with sitemaps creator you can actually set every page and posts exactly they way you want it to show up or be sent to the search engines for your future visitors.
Check it out in your admin panel, under plugins. Just activate, then go to settings and look at the world that has been opened up for you.
Youll also notice a super kewl section added below the section where you add posts and pages when adding new ones that allows you to control titles, meta words, additional tags and much much more for each specific action you choose.
Bill
We have added a new plugin to ZBlogs to spruce up your theme of choice with. It adds a snowing effect to your ZBlog pages. Simply go into your admin panel, go to plugins, then activate “wp-effects”, then go to the settings page for it and add in your snow.(dont add more than 20 or itll slow down your pages).
When winter is over you can use it to add leaves, or you can create your own small images and use any custom image you want falling across and down your ZBlog pages.
Right now you can choose snow, presents or leaves or use your own custom image.
You can see it in action at http://downloads.zblogs.info/ we are using 11 as the number of images to use.
Enjoy
Admin
The next 5 people that follow the below guidlines will recieve a free 1 year upgrade to ZBlogs Pro….
For the next 5 people using ZBlogs that makes an article on their squidoo, facebook or outside blog thats on your own custom domain and you have a ZBlog too, we will give you a free 3 month 1 year upgrade to ZBlogs Pro.
With ZBlogs Pro you get access to extremely customizable themes with their own admin panel, premium plugins and support and much more.
Your article for inclusion must include a link to and talking about the benefits of Free ZBlogs at http://www.freezblogs.com and it must also include information and a link to the ZBlogs Pro program and information can be found about it at the main http://www.zazzleblogs.com in the about menu item. Inclusion of our facebook, squidoo and Twitter pages will help in standings and possibly get you a free 6 month upgrade compared to 3 months.
So, write a simple article on your personal blog, facebook or squidoo and get a free ZBlogs Pro upgrade.
First come first serve 5 winners only, and you must supply us with a link to the article being used.
Send all inquiries to support@freezblogs.com
Have Fun
Bill 
http://www.freezblogs.com
All ZBlog Pros now have access to instant google sitemap generator built into their ZBlog. It can be set up to not only submit an xml site map to google, but also msn, yahoo and bing since they have joined the google xml sitemap phenom.
Simply go to your admin panel, and the sitemaps listing is aleady in your settings tab. Open it up, make any tweaks or changes you want.
Then simply create a new post and itll take over from there automatically. It even automatically updates your sitemap and notifies the major search engines automatically for you as you make a new post or add a page.
Enjoy
Thats right, now all ZBlog users have access to the nextgen Gallery brand of photo gallery. NextGen is considered to be the most sought after photo gallery on the web to date, and its now a plugin and available to all ZBlog Users.
Simply go to your admin panel to activate the gallery plugin, then hit the settings section at the bottom left of your admin panel.
Load single photo’s, bulk batches of photos, insert into pages, posts, sidebar widgets and more. You can also create slideshows and dozens of intergration methods.
It also comes with dozens of short codes you can use. They are listed below, as well as in our new FAQ section and in the forums at www.zuhelp.com
= Features =
* Templates : You can add custom templates for your theme.
* Media RSS feed : Add the Cooliris Effect to your gallery
* Role settings : Each gallery has a author
* AJAX based thumbnail generator : No more server limitation during the batch process
* Copy/Move : Copy or move images between galleries
* Sortable Albums : Create your own sets of images
* Upload or pictures via a zip-file (Not in Safe-mode)
* Watermark function : You can add a watermark image or text
* JavaScript Effect : Use any available popular image effect : Shutter, Thickbox, Lightbox or Highslide
* Multiple CSS Stylesheet : Use a nice shadow effect for your thumbnails with your own CSS file
* Slideshow : Full integrated slideshow as jQuery or Flash solution
* TinyMCE : Button integration for easy adding the gallery tags
* Sidebar Widget : Show a slideshow, random or recent picture at your sidebar
* Language support : Translated in more than 30 languages
* Translation downloader : Download with one click the new translation file
* Upload tab integration : You have access to all pictures via the upload tab
* Tag support for images : Append related images to your post, create a image tag-cloud
* Meta data support : Import EXIF, IPTC or XMP meta data
* Sort images feature
Go to your post/page an enter the tag ‘[nggallery id=x]‘ or ‘[slideshow id=x]‘.
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
When writing a page/post, you can use the follow tags:
For a slideshow : **[slideshow id=x w=width h=height]**
Example : http://nextgen-gallery.com/slideshow/
For a album : **[album id=x template=extend]** or **[album id=x template=compact]**
Example : http://nextgen-gallery.com/album/
For a gallery : **[nggallery id=x]**
Example : http://nextgen-gallery.com/gallery-page/
For a single picture : **[singlepic id=x w=width h=height mode=web20|watermark float=left|right]**
Example : http://nextgen-gallery.com/singlepic/
For a image browser : **[imagebrowser id=x]**
Example : http://nextgen-gallery.com/image-browser/
To show image sorted by tags : **[nggtags gallery=mytag,wordpress,... ]**
Example : http://nextgen-gallery.com/gallery-tags/
To show tag albums : **[nggtags album=mytag,wordpress,... ]**
Example : http://nextgen-gallery.com/albumtags/
To show random mages : **[random max=x ]**
To show the most recent added mages : **[recent max=x ]**
Now you can have those kewl little avatars show up on your posts, feeds, friends widgets and everywhere on all zblogs utilizing any tool that has avatars just like they are on Twitter, Facebook and everywhere else.(a good example is look at the ZBlogs listing to the left, you can have your own custom avatar there instead of the generic G)
Plus with the new intergration you dont have to join gravatar or some other outside source, you simply browse and upload your new avatar. You can even upload a large image, then use the built in tools to crop just the part of the image you want to use as your avatar.
You can see a sample of it on our main page, lower left showing off the current ZBlogs Pros.
Its located in your admin panel, then settings, then look at the bottom for “blog avatar”.
Now you can choose when you first setup your new ZBlog if you want to use EasyBlogging or Standard. Easy blogging is great for those with first time use of wordpress, while standard blogging gives you all features.
One of the biggest challenges faced by WordPress Multisite and WPMU site owners is that the default interface can be a bit too complex for younger, older and novice users.
Easy blogging solves that by providing your users with the option of a much simpler interface that will completely demystify the WordPress dashboard.
Swtiching between interfaces is as simple as clicking on the ‘Go to the Easy Admin Area’ or ‘Go to the Advanced Admin Area’ at the top of their dashboard.
Best of all Easy Admin area interface has been designed to work well with our Supporter plugin adding all the extra supporter tabs! Grab this plugin to make blogging much easier and more enjoyable for your users and watch you membership grow!
And to really make life easier, for either novices or pro’s alike we have also intergrated the Blogging Wizard and Blogging Tool Tips thru out all the ZBlogs admin pages and interface.
We are truly now the easiest and fullest free blog source out there.
Were happy to say after several agonizing days that everything is back to normal.
No more shrunkin text, no more emails when there not supposed to and best of all, all the security holes have been fixed and taken care of.
I apologise to everyone for the issues over the past few days, and every little plugin will be back and up to date with latest releases by the end of the day.
Including a few that are custom just for ZBlog Users.
Thanks Everyone
Bill