Calling for Testimonials
The BlogCFC Team is working hard on some major upgrades. Before any software updates can be made we need to redo the main website. We have been working hard on getting this ready and it is pretty close to being completed. One thing that could really help us out is a nice testimonial from any users out there. Just a short blurb in the comments on why you use it and why you love it. Please leave your name, your comments and a link if you want. Thanks for helping us out and stay tuned for some exciting things to come.
thanks to everyone who has ever contributed to this project!
If I had a wish list for BlogCFC, it would be for a simpler way to apply a new skin/template to the front end. At the moment, it appears to require an understanding of the code, expertise in CSS/XHTML, and an eye for design. Many blogs out there make it fairly simple to change look and feel with only a few clicks. This is my one wish for BlogCFC. Other than that, I really appreciate the application as it is and especially the BlogCFC team for all their work on it.
i love and use blogcfc and have for quite some time.
what id love to see is a rich text editor so that i can
easily do links, insert images (although this is ok with
the newer version), and other little easy things that a
fckeditor type thing would provide.
http://www.amcomtech.net/client/index.cfm
Was easy to integrate into a large cf site; www.21school.ox.ac.uk/blog/
Really looking forward to v 6: application.cfc control would be fab as would themeing
It's also nice that it supports SQL Server, as this is our preferred institutional database backend. Oh, and we like that there are easy-to-identify RSS feeds for each subject. This is a great enhancement for granular syndication.
Raymond has been great in replying to queries. In general it’s a fantastic piece of work. I only wish someone could write a proper help file to deal with all aspects of coding and to tell us novice users who know nothing about code how to change and modify color, size, columns etc.
I still do not feel confident enough to upload my blog and there are some things I would love to add but I don’t know how.
1- Member Login. It would be wonderful if there was a facility for users to register with their own personal username and password , including automatic password verification returned to them if they so forgot. This would mean that anyone trying to access the blog would have to register. Something similar to http://www.blogcfm.org/blogcfm/login.cfm
2- Somehow to upload flash (*.swf) files and movies easily the same way as uploading photo’s.
3- I know it is risky but the option to allow some or all registered users to upload their images to the blog.
I think if these features are incorporated in the future editions particularly a good help file or an interface like a Manager that can change the settings rather than interfere with the code a great many people who use Wordpress and other blogs would certainly swith to blogcfc.
Regards
Cyrus
1) I don't see that as being in part of the core blog... but it is something to consider.
2) Hmm. It would be nice to support a generic upload and support _anything_. I mean I do support an enclosure, which is like an attachment to a blog entry, but this could be interesting as well.