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BlogBackupr: Awesome!

// March 3rd, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Internet

There’s a new web 2.0 service in town: BlogBackupr! It’s, as the name tells, a blog backup service. For free, daily backups!

Currently, WordPress as well as Blogger.com are supported. All you need to do is register, put in the address of you blog and then give it the admin credentials, so it can perform backups. It’s still in the beta phase, and that has a good reason: Only text is backed up, not the theme, the plugins et cetera. But still, there are never enough backups, are there?

After registering, this is the first thing you see after logging in:

So the system understands what CMS you’re on and you can easily add more than one blog.

If you click on export, you can download the Backup as a WP RSS, normal RSS, Text or HTML file. Nice!

You can also view the backup posts:

All in all, BlogBackupr is a great service. It’s great that it saves all posts, but I guess in the future, when it will be able to do even more (backup templates, wp-content, plugins, comments, …), I would even be willing to pay for it.

Backups are always necessary (I got 3 different plugins backing up this blog) and the more, the better!

So don’t waste any more time and back up your blog now!

Blog: Relaunch successful.

// February 12th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Internet

Here we go, after a good year using the old theme I switched to a new one - finally, the old one was really starting to get on my nerves. I’ll never make a 2 sidebar-columns design again. When I start redesigning, I usually create a little something rough in Photoshop, which gives me the colors and the fonts I want to use. Then I start looking for prebuilt themes that kind of look like what I designed. Of course, I’m never able to find exactly something like a designed, now that would be weird, wouldn’t it? But that’s a good thing, because most themes have a great designer behind them who also know what they are doing. So I go on changing that theme to make it look more like my own, while keeping the good ideas the other designer had. So that’s what you see here now: A mix of a design from me, the inventor of the Hemingway theme as well as it’s ‘expander‘. Kudos to those guys. Hope you enjoy the new look. If you find any bugs and itches, please report them via comment or mail. Thanks!