A maintenance window is scheduled for April 7, 2007 for Blogzerk.
During this time, the Blogware servers will be moved to a new
datacenter:

Date: April 7 - 8, 2007 EDT
Time: 10:00 PM EDT 04/07/2007 - 07:30 AM EDT
04/08/2007
Duration: 9.5 hours

During this windows, blogs and the publisher's control panel will be unavailable.

A maintenance window is scheduled for October 28, 2006 to enhance Blogware:

Date: 2 December 2006 EST
Time: 10:00PM EST - 03:00AM EST
Duration: 6 hours

During this windows, blogs and the publisher's control panel will be unavailable.

The following enhancements will be made:

Creating Reader Accounts:

• "Create A Reader Account" renamed to "Create An Account".
• Clicking the "Create An Account" link in a blog will go directly to the "Create An Account" page. This page has been re-designed to keep the user within the blog instead of an external page.

Managing Reader Accounts:

• Readers can now manage their reader account from a single page. Readers who log into a blog can click ‘My Preferences’, and will be taken to the preferences page.
• Readers can delete their reader account, change their email notifications, or display name.

User Permissions Section:

• "Manage Groups" changed to "List Groups". Existing groups will be listed and new groups can be added.
• The "Edit Group" page has been re-designed to be more user-friendly.
• The "Edit User" screen has been redesigned and email notifications for readers (users with no associated blog) can now be modified by the blog owner.

Once these changes are made, the documentation (link available in the control panel) will be updated.

Since approximately 8:10 AM ET, the Blogzerk Control Panel (http://controlpanel.blogzerk.com/) has been down. Blogware is working on this and we will update this post when we have more information.

UPDATED 10:30 AM ET: This has been resolved and the control panel is working now.

A maintenance window is scheduled for October 28, 2006 to maintain the Blogware databases:

Date: 28 October 2006 EDT
Start Time: 10:00PM EDT - 01:00AM EST (note change from EDT to EST)
Duration: 4 hours

During this windows, blogs and the publisher's control panel will be unavailable.

Sorry for the short notice, but we missed the original announcement of this from Blogware. A maintenance window is scheduled for tomorrow to maintain the Blogware databases:

Date: 14 October 2006 EDT
Start Time: 10:00PM EDT - 03:00AM EDT
Duration: 5 hours

During this windows, blogs and the publisher's control panel will be unavailable.

For Blogzerk we have upgraded and simplified plans. See all the details at this post on the Blogzerk blog.

If you have customized your blog's templates, now would be a good time to download a copy of your current, custom template so you have a backup. While this is a good idea at any time, now is a really good time since there is a rare bug with Blogware where custom templates may be truncated. Depending on which template this is, it could cause anything from your custom CSS not being applied, to articles not displaying, to the whole blog not displaying.

Up until last night, we had only seen this on blogs we were testing or managing. We had reported this to Blogware as a bug a few weeks ago but they weren't able to replicate it. Last night, a customer reported their custom article template had been truncated which was causing the article to not display.

We have reopened this bug with Blogware to try to get this fixed. In the mean time, if you have customized your templates be sure to download a copy of them in case this bug bites you.

In adding the functionality for AJAX comments, any blog that has a customized article template will now find that the comments link does not work. We are waiting for a final fix for this and a related issue from Blogware and will update this post with more information. We apologize for the inconvenience.

To fix this problem the following templates must be modified if you have customized them. If you have not customized any of these templates, you do not need to do anything.

• Article
• Book Review
• Music Reivew
• Movie Review
• Photo

Each template listed above contains the following code:

{{if allow_comments}}
{{if can_post}}
<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><a href="#post_comment"><%=
gettext("Post a comment") %></a></div>
{{/if}} <!-- can_post -->
{{/if}} <!-- allow_comments -->

This code needs to be replaced with:

{{if allow_comments}}
{{if can_post}}
<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><a href="#post_comment" onclick="return
reveal_post_comment_inline(true, false);"><%= gettext("Post a comment")
%></a></div>
{{/if}} <!-- can_post -->
{{/if}} <!-- allow_comments -->

If you have customized your base template, you will also need to add the following to the top of your article template:

<script src="/_frameworks_static/js/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/_frameworks_static/js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/_static/js/ajaxian_comments.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!--
// article settings
templates.set( 'allow_comments', {{if allow_comments}} true {{else}} false {{/if}} );
templates.set( 'show_comment_login', {{if show_comment_login}} true {{else}} false {{/if}});
templates.set( 'comment_login_required', {{if comment_login_required}} true {{else}} false {{/if}} );
templates.set( 'is_standalone', false );
// -->
</script>

Blogware will be conducting a maintenance window on June 24, 2006 to conduct database configuration changes to reduce timeout

errors (500 errors) when posting to blogs remotely.

Date: June 29, 2006
Start Time: 12:00 AM ET
Duration: 0.5 Hours

Impact: During this window, the Publishers' Control Panel and blogs will not be accessible. Each interface will be made live as soon as it is available to minimize impact on end users.

Blogware will be conducting a maintenance window on June 24, 2006 to perform preventative maintenance on the system databases.

Date: June 24, 2006
Start Time: 10:00 PM ET
Duration: 0.5 Hours

Impact: During this window, the Publishers' Control Panel and blogs will not be accessible. Each interface will be made live as soon as it is available to minimize impact on end users.