Widgets and Drag and Drop Sidebar!

Good day dear I.PH users! We are happy to announce that your sidebars are not only working fine again but now sport two new features that we know a lot of you have been waiting for. Yes folks, you can now easily re order the elements in your sidebar through easy drag and drop. Once you've logged in to your account and turn Edit On, you can double click and hold the heading of any sidebar element and move it where you please. No need to enter your dashboard or anything. You do it right there on your main page! 

You now also have the ability to add widgets to your sidebar! After logging in and clicking Edit On, you'll notice on the drop down menu bar a new entry called widgets. We have taken the liberty of including some of the more popular widgets Like Sitemeter, Google Maps, Meebome, MyBlogLog and Flickr, Slideshow for easier installation. Just get your own widget code from the third party provider and copy and paste to the corresponding widget box. To add more widgets, just click on the add link under widgets in the menu bar! Personally I'm really excited about this because this drastically expands the functionalities of our blogs. There are a lot of third party blog add ons out there and there are a lot more popping up regularly so this gives us a lot of new possibilities. Pretty cool don't you think.

Oh and you may have noticed that the google ads on the sidebar disappeared. This doesn't mean that AdSense no longer works on I.PH but rather that we are giving you guys better control. If you want to to enable Google Ads on your blog simply go in to your dashboard and click on Ad Settings on the Account Settings table. You'll be asked for your Google Adsense Client ID so if you don't have one yet sign up for one now! Take note though that for those on free accounts, we will still be implementing the 50/50 revenue sharing model which means that half the time, your ads appear and the other half of the time our ads appear on your blogs.

As promised, we continue to work on improving your blogging experience with I.PH. Your feedback has been very helpful to us and remains most welcome. So please do join the discussions happening over at the I.PH forums. Get to know your fellow I.PH users and keep yourself updated with new developments as well as request for even more features for your blogs.  Blog on!