I’ve added Gravatar to LibDemBlogs for the moment. I’ve used the email addresses which people requested to be added to the site to generate the gravatar. If you don’t already have a Gravatar visit their site www.gravatar.com and register. If you do and it doesn’t appear, let me know which email address you think I should be using. If it does appear and you don’t want it let me know and I’ll work out what to do.
Note if it slows down LibDemBlogs or it just doesn’t look that good I may turn it off.

It’s now possible to donate towards the cost of LibDemBlogs.
I’ve also added my search engine (well a Google API script) to the site, so you can try and find those old posts or just search for random words. A small bug is that searching for LibDem Bloggers doesn’t really work as their names appear on almost every page.

After two hard days of getting it to work, the new style for LibDem Blogs is live.
Hopefully the layout is easier to read, and with the discrete advertising that has slipped in, some of my bandwidth costs can be covered.
Please leave feedback in the comments, as the site is there for you the readers and not me.

I’ve add MyBlogLog for the time being to both this blog and LibDemBlogs.
Currently it’s a trial, after both Will and I thought it would be nice to see which stories actually got read on the LibDemBlogs site during the LibDem Spring Conference.
You can see the stats for LibDemBlogs here or my blog here.
Any feedback welcome.

Looks like a rogue blog is crashing the build script. Until I get home to run some tests, you might find the site not updating itself as often as it should.

Update I’ve made some tweaks to the cron jobs and everything seems to be working fine.

Just an update to the LibDem Blog code.
I’ve added this line of code

Which replaces <img xsrc=”https://blog.artesea.co.uk/images/ming.png/” mce_src=”https://blog.artesea.co.uk/images/ming.png/” alt=”Ming T-Shirt” /> with {Ming T-Shirt}

My webhosts DataFlame are moving my server.
This means that DNS setting may end up pointing to old information and possible nothingness.
I’m trying to keep any eye on it, and hopefully I’ll have no downtime. However it may be possible that LibDemBlogs and my Blog may disappear tonight or tomorrow.