The look of the control panel has changed dramatically. I know this might be jarring, and I apologize for that. The old look created problems with using the post editor and uploading images. It also made it more difficult to deal with spam blogs, the bane of my existence.

We just added a complete blog list to the ReformedBlogs.com homepage.

Reformed Blogs is ready for prime-time now, so consider this the ribbon-cutting ceremony!

We’ve worked out a few bugs and added some new features.

The first is sidebar widgets. Widgets allow Reformed Bloggers to easily personalize their blog sidebar without knowing HTML. You can check these out under Presentation - Sidebar Widgets if the theme you use supports them (most do). The selection of widgets is limited for now, but we have plans to add more down the road.

The second new feature is the ShortStat statistics page. It’s a simple page to give an overview of who is visiting a blog and where they’re coming from. Click “ShortStat” from the main blog dashboard page to check this out… statistics have been collecting for about a week now!

We’ve also added a few new themes and beefed up spam management with an industrial-strength Akismet solution.

As always we want to hear your thoughts and custom requests. Thank you bloggers for making Reformed Blogs great!

The launch of ReformedBlogs.com open beta has begun. Thank you for helping me test and polish ReformedBlogs.com in preparation for a mid-March release. If you have any friends who would be interested, let them know about the site!