Translations

The French translation in 1.1b4 has been updated courtesy of Guillôme. For the benefit of other translators, he's also supplied a zip file containing the new strings that have been added to the latest release. Thanks, Guillôme!

Also, it's probably worth mentioning that the way Thingamablog stores language data has changed a bit. The FAQ has been updated to reflect this.

Using Thingamablog

ThingamaBlogger Stephan Hoppe has begun an excellent tutorial on getting started with TAMB. From Using Thingamablog...

"In this tutorial you will learn how to use Thingamablog to create your own web site. It's intended for those who are new to Thingamablog, and have at least a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.

By the end of this tutorial, you should have a reasonably elaborate site designed using your own original CSS template with your content "auto-managed" by Thingamablog."

New users should find this well-written guide particularly helpful. Be sure to check it out!

v1.0.4 Released

Thingamablog v1.0.4 has been released. In addition to a few more bug-fixes, this version introduces a Japanese translation (Thanks Tatsuya!)

See What's New....

The Forum is Back

The forum is back up and running. Sorry about the delay and for any inconvenience.

Forum temporarily down

The TAMB forum and site pinging feature are down temporarily while sourceforge.net migrates to their new MySQL server. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes!

Forum Opened

A Thingamablog support and discussion forum has been opened.

TAMB featured in book

Thingamablog is featured in the new book Weblogs by Eric Charton. The second half of this French blogging guide steps the reader through creating and managing a Thingamablog. Readers will learn how to publish and update a blog, manage the syndication feed in XML, edit templates, and other various functions and operations. In addition, Weblogs includes Thingamablog on a CD-ROM. Check it out here.

TAMB Reviewed on thelinuxapprentice.com

Thingamablog was recently reviewed on thelinuxapprentice.com. (A really great Linux resource) You can check it out here.

New users should find this well written review particularly helpful as it gives a good overview of getting started from a user perspective.

Update: There's now a Linux Apprentice Thingamablog tutorial

Updated French Translation

A more accurate French translation for v1.0b4 is available here. Simply copy the lang.zip file to the lib subdirectory in the folder where you installed Thingamablog

TAMB Review

An exhaustive review (in French) of Thingamablog has been published on the French Mac website http://www.cuk.ch. In fact, this is about the most thourough overview of TAMB features that has been published to date.

Thanks to Thingamablogger Guillôme for taking the time to put this article together.

Link Buttons

A few more link buttons have been created. Feel free to use them, but please do not link them remotely.

Buttons

Thanks to Ruben at Uhus Weblog Droppings for contributing this spiffy Thingamablog link button.

Feel free to include it on your sites. But please copy the image to your own web host rather than remote linking it.

Spanish Translation now available

Many thanks to Templaillo Ahi who has contributed an excellent Spanish translation!

The new translations will be distributed in the next release. Spanish and French speaking users, however, can download the updated language file for use in the current version.

Simply download lang.zip and copy it to the "lib" subdirectory in the directory where you installed Thingamablog.

French Translation

French speaking thingamabloggers will be happy to know that Thingamablog is now available in French thanks to Guillome who provided this excellent translation.

To implement the French translation in the current version, simply download lang.zip and copy it to the "lib" subdirectory in the directory where you installed Thingamablog.

Non-western characters

Thanks to Taro at the Lazy Lounge Log for pointing out an issue with non-western characters not displaying correctly in certain dialogs.

The default "Plastic" Look and Feel uses a hard-coded tahoma font which can't display non-western characters. The work-around is to change the look and feel to anything other than Plastic. The look and feel can be changed from the Options Dialog. (Configure/Options...)

Update: This issue is resolved in v1.0b2

Recently Updated ThingamaBlogs

Thingamablog users can now notify this site of blog updates via an XML-RPC ping. Updated ThingamaBlogs will appear on the Recently Updated Blogs page.

To configure Thingamablog to ping this site, follow the steps below.

• Open the Blog Properties dialog for your blog (Blog menu/Blog Properties...)
• Switch to the "Pinging" tab and click the Add button.
• Enter "Updated ThingamaBlogs" in the Service Name field.
• Enter http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php in the Service Url field
• Click OK to save the ping service and ensure that the Ping checkbox is selected

That's it. Now whenever you publish your blog, it will appear on the updates page.

As of v0.9.4c, newly created blogs have this service enabled automatically. If you don't want to ping this site, simply disable the service by unchecking "Ping"

Sea Monkeys!

I found a Thingamablog blog in the wild. It's a sea monkey journal! And quite an interesting read, too, i might add. I've always wondered why they never look like they do in the old comic book advertisments. I suppose it's just one of those "artist misconceptions" :)

Anyway, the sea monkey blog is pretty darned neato. Check it out.