Yet Another Brand New Template!

Yup. Because we love you guys so much we're giving you another brand spanking new template. Folks, allow me to present to you, Transparency:

The cool thing about this template that some regions are actually well…transparent, allowing more of the back ground image to be visible. I particularly like removing the header image  and just leave the title for a very clean look.  We know that with the coming new year a lot of you are considering a site re design. So check out Transparency. And do watch out for even more templates very soon! 

Video Posting Now Possible! New Template Also Available!

As promised, you can now easily post a video in your article. It supports youtube, google video and metacafe. It's easy too. All you have to do is copy the URL of the video you want to include in your article. Click on "Insert Video" on the upper right hand corner of your post editor and paste the URL in the field provided. Choose the alignment and click on "Insert". It's that simple. And it looks a little something like this:

We look forward to seeing your videos!

And we have more good news. A new template is now available. It's called  Empyrean and it looks like this:

What sets Empyrean apart is that it allows you to customize 3header images. We will have even more templates available for you early in January so do look out for that.

We also made a couple of changes designed to make your blogging experience more enjoyable. For instance, now you can login to your i.ph account using your google  account details. That's one less set of login details to remember. Also, your new albums will now show up to 40 thumbnails as opposed to the original 8, giving you and your readers a better preview of the album contents. We've made tweaks for the post editor to load faster, addressed some of the bugs and enchanced the backend processing as well as the user interface. Like we keep mentioning, we are committed to constantly developing i.ph to make your blogging experience much much better. 

Sexy Nomad is People’s Choice

By garnering the highest number of SMS and online votes in her category, Jen Juan, more popularly known in the blogosphere as The Sexy Nomad, took home the People's Choice Blog trophy in last night's Philippine Web Awards. I was sitting with The Sexy Nomad at the 3rd level balcony of the Carlos P. Romulo auditorium in RCBC Plaza in Makati when they announced her as the winner. It was obvious by the stunned look on her face that it caught her completely off guard. She hurriedly handed me her stuff and quite literally ran down several flights of stairs to get her award. Smiling from ear to ear and now only just a little bit flusterred, she thanked everyone who voted for her and gave a special mention to her husband who she says, "inspired her to blog."

Jen catches her breath after running down the stairs

All smiles as she accepts her trophy

"Thank you for voting for me!"

The Sexy Nomad with the other People Choice Awardees

Newbie takes home a Webby

Congratulations Jen, from all of us here at i.ph. We are very proud to have you blogging with us!

Fresh New Features!!!

It's still a good 19 days before Christmas and although I haven't even started with my own Christmas shopping yet, we here at i.ph are happy to give you an early Christmas present. By next week, you will now be able to insert videos into your post. Check it out:

We've been getting a lot of requests for this feature and now it's almost here. Cool eh?

But we're not done with the gift giving yet. We are also releasing 4 new templates very early in January. But who knows, if you kiddies have been specially good this year, then Santa may just throw them in before the year ends. Here's a sneak peek:

Rest assured that we will continue churning out even more features to further enrich your blogging experience. We still have a lot of exciting things that are currently under development. Of course we are working hard on these things for you guys. We'd really love to hear what else you would like to have on your i.ph blog. Please feel free to join in our i.ph forum where you'll get to talk with me and our chief developers. This is all for now.  We hope you all are enjoying the Christmas season. Happy holidays!!!