Network Maintenance: July 1, 2010

UPDATE: Downtime has been moved from 8pm to 11pm. Please expect around 30 minutes of downtime.

i.PH blogs will conduct a network maintenance today, July 1, 2010 from 6 :00pm until 8:00pm (GMT +0800).

During the maintenance, the system may encounter 2 hours temporary downtime.

Please be guided accordingly. 

Network Maintenance: June 9, 2010

i.PH blogs will conduct a network maintenance on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 from 11:00pm until 2:00am of June 10, 2010 (GMT +0800)

During the maintenance, the system may encounter 1 hour temporary downtime.

Please be guided accordingly. 

Emergency Server Maintenance, September 25, 2009

i.PH will conduct an emergency server maintenance tonight, Sept 25, 2009 from 10:00pm until 4:00am of Sept 26, 2009 (GMT +0800).

During the maintenance, the system will encounter 30 minutes to 1 hour temporary downtime.

Please be guided accordingly.

Be the first to see I.PH Version 3!

It is unfortunate but some of the participants for today's FGD are feeling under the weather and won't be able to make it.  Because of this, we have re scheduled it for Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. We meet at our office, 27F Jollibee Plaza here in Ortigas Center  at 7:30 in the evening. We hope more of you can join us. Have a good day!

Edited: Dec 12, 2007, 2:15PM 

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Hello folks! As most of you already know, we've been really busy working on Version 3 of I.PH. We've added a lot of new features as well as improved on the existing ones. Now we would like YOU to have a hand in developing your blogging platform of choice.

We will be conducting a focused group discussion next week, tentatively set for Wednesday, here at our brand spanking new office in Jollibee Plaza, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. We would like to invite you to be a participant and be one of the first to preview I.PH Version 3. More importantly, you will have the chance to directly influence the development of I.PH. Your bright idea might just be the next big thing for I.PH. Now how cool is that?

If you would like to attend our focused group discussion, leave a comment here or shoot me an email through peterjuan@i.ph. Send me a contact number and I'll be sure to call you as soon as I can.

We'll be talking over coffee and snacks and afterwards, we can even play a few sets of table tennis. Then if you're up to it, we can go out for drinks and plan a post Christmas party for I.PH users and forum I.PH regulars. I hope to hear from you guys soon! Blog on!

Announcement

I.PH blogs will be momentarily offline on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 9:00 in the morning. This will allow us to upgrade the memory of our servers. At the most, this will last for only 15 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding. Good day and blog on!

Down Time Scheduled for Tomorrow

Hello again dear I.PH users. Please be advised that I.PH will experience some temporary down time tomorrow evening at around 7:00PM. The Interruption will last less than an hour. This allows us some time to upgrade our back end and also clean up a few bugs. The gallery will also be upgraded. This will allow us to incorporate more features in the future as well as improve over all performance for instance, you will notice some slight improvement in speed after this upgrade. It also gives us more avenues to make I.PH faster in the near future. The forums will remain online during the down time so you might want to spend your time there while waiting it out. Thank you for your understanding! Good day to you all! 

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!

What’s up with my sidebar?!!!

Hello folks. You may have noticed something odd about your sidebars the past few hours, particularly with custom content boxes. No need to worry. This is not a glitch. We disabled them for now while we integrate the javascript option which will allow you to add more utilities to your blog as well as the ability to re-arrange all the elements of your sidebar using simple drag and drop. Thank you for bearing with us. We expect to have normal operations as well as the new features up and running within the day. We appreciate your understanding. Salamat! Blog on!

New Template Available! More Updates Coming Very Soon!

The very aptly named template, Minimalist is now ready for use. As you might expect, simplicity is at it's core and it sports a very uncluttered look, great for people who want to highlight their writing more than anything else. Here's a preview, just give the pic a click:

Aside forn this new template, we have another one in the works called Dfire and that will be available quite soon as well. Also, please do watch out for some new features that will be implemented in the next few days. Most exciting perhaps and certainly one of the most requested of these that will be online soon is the ability to drag and drop the sidebar elements so you can arrange them any which way you might like. Also, the sidebar will soon be open to external widgets. You can expect to see that up very very soon. We will also be allowing you folks to enable or disable the Google ads that appear in your sidebar. 

We are constantly developing and polishing I.PH to make your blogging experience all the better. Your feedback is very important to us. If you haven't yet, please do sign up for the I.PH forums. Not only can you discuss I.PH and it's features there, you can also join a community of bloggers that is growing steadily in strength everyday. Also, it's actually quite fun and you find new blogs to read and new readers to read your blogs. Cool eh? Hope to see you there! Good day folks. Blog on!

Google Ads SOON!

Great news folks! We are moving closer to helping you guys make money out of your blogs using google adsense. In a few days, you will notice google ads on your blogs as we enter into the dry run phase of this particular feature. We would really appreciate your feedback regarding this. We want to make the ads as effective but as unobtrusive as possible.

Shortly after our dry run, we will allow users with their own google adsense accounts to activate it on their blogs. Those of you with free i.ph accounts will enjoy a 50/50 split with i.ph, meaning that half of the time your blog will display ads from your adsense account, and half the time, from ours. Users with paid premium accounts have the benefit of displaying ads exclusively from their adsense. They may also opt to remove ads altogether. The final phase will attempt to include other ad networks aside from adsense. Cool eh? Let us know what you think. Join the discussion here!

I.PH is having an Eye Ball!

Yep. You read that right. After many attempts and false starts, I.PH will finally have its first ever Eye Ball next Saturday the 31st of March. If you're an I.PH User, then you are cordially invited to join in the fun. So do check out the details here. See you there!!!

Here’s the Cherry on Top!

Candies and treats and now a cherry to top things off! Wordpress compatible templates, Dipdolt and Contaminated, are now available for your i.ph blogs! And we're looking to add some more in the near future. Here's a sneak peek:

Do you have any Wordpress templates you want to use for your i.ph blog? Then join the i.ph forums to submit your favorite.

Now For Some Fresh Treats!

Here are some of the latest improvements we've done for i.ph:

• You can now post music coming from your audio gallery aside from just uploading directly to your article.
• You can now use images in your restricted/private galleries for your header and background images.
• Once you log in to your blog, your topbar will now display an alert sign whenever you have unapproved comments or testimonials.
• Auto discovery of all RSS feeds.
• Breadcrumbs will now display the page number.

Swing by the i.ph forums to get a sneak peek at even more enchancements that we're planning to release. Register as a forum member to throw in your suggestions as well. Your ideas help make i.ph better and better.

Who wants Candy?!

I know I do! This Candy isn't made of sugar, but I'm telling you, it sure is SWEET! It's the newest i.ph template, and it's avalable right now. Here's a taste test:

Protecting your I.PH Accounts

Hello there folks. We would like to remind you to make sure that you log out of your I.PH accounts before closing your browsers. Specially if you are using a shared computer, such as in your office or in an internet cafe. This will make sure that no one else will have access to your accounts. Although your I.PH Blog is designed to log out automatically the moment you close your browser, some PCs are set to auto remember all log in details. We have had one instance where an I.PH blog was not logged out and someone else using the same computer deleted the posts. To avoid this from happening to you, please be certain to log out from your I.PH account after every session. Thank you.

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!!!

Server Upgrade on Friday, October 27, 2006

Dear Valued Client,

i.PH will undergo server upgrade on Friday, October 27, 2006 from 10:00pm until 1:00am of October 28, 2006 (GMT +0800). During the upgrade, the system will encounter 20-30 minutes temporary downtime. Please be informed that your website will be inaccessible and you will be unable to manage your blog account during the downtime.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal operations will resume upon completion of the maintenance.

For more information, please email helpdesk@domains.ph

Thank you for your continued support of i.PH.

Best regards,
i.PH Team
Tel: +632-6372104 to 05
Fax: +632-6327319
E-mail: helpdesk@domains.ph
URL: http://www.i.ph/