Hosted Business Blog Sites in Denver

At Blog Crater, we are dedicated to providing professional, high quality hosting resources to assist you in hosting your new blog site or re-host your existing blog.

The purpose of this blog is for discussion of such topics as how to create a blog, blog hosting, blogging best practices, themes, plugins, and what’s new in the blogging world.

We’ll host your custom blog site using the highly acclaimed WordPress platform.  Use your own domain name, so you can maintain your unique Internet name space and web presence.

WordPress just keeps getting better!
WordPress Security Release v2.9.2 released:
See full detail WordPress 2.9.2 Release

New update for WordPress v2.8.4: Security Release

Once again, this excellent product continues to get better and better.
This update addresses a security vulnerability that could allow unauthorized users to request a password reset. See full detail WordPress 2.8.4 Release

Great news!! Yet another new and improved WordPress release. Released to the public on June 10th, 2009.
WordPress Version 2.8 offers many, many new features as well as improvements on existing feature sets.

If you haven’t already using this awesome WordPress template by Denver Knox, you are missing out!

Read more at Knox’s website

delicious days releases another more robust release of cforms

cforms v.10.5 requires PHP 5 and above, be sure your web server and/or hosting provider is using PHP v5.x before you install this update.
If your web server is running PHP 4.x you can still download and use the latest compatible version of cforms v10.4.1

Get all the details on the author’s website

Another release of this terrific WordPress plugin “cforms II” is now available v10.4
Please see author’s website for more details.
Author Website

WordPress released their first maintenance release of v2.7, now v.2.7.1

The release contains fixes for 68 tickets. This release can be upgraded automatically (Tools->Upgrade menu) or downloaded and perform upgrade manually if you wish to do so.

If you choose the Automatic method, make sure you have a folder called upgrade within your wp-content folder that has public ‘write’ permissions.

As with any WP upgrade or patch install, you will want to make sure you have proper backups your existing WP site, all web folders and MySQL database(s).

Please visit WordPress’s official site for the list of fixed tickets and the full set of changes between 2.7 and 2.7.1 for details.
Download WordPress 2.7.1
Information on WordPress 2.71
Upgrading WordPress Guide

Our daily schedules are much busier today than they have ever been in the past.  Work schedules are longer and many of us are more spontaneous when it comes to taking vacation or even a weekend out of town.  And we are faced with finding a relative or neighbor to watch our pets while we are gone.

If you are like me, I don’t feel comfortable leaving them at a kennel or troubling the family or neighbors, once again to come take care of the critters.  Maybe this is fine and they don’t mind or maybe you would like to try something new, but who do you trust to take care of your extended family members while you are gone?

Avid pet lovers are the first to recognize the risks involved and have started to seek quality pet sitting services as an alternative. When one stops to consider the benefits of hiring a pet sitter, it is a win-win situation. You gain the flexibility to take those spontaneous out of town weekends or travel for vacation, with the peace of mind that your pets are in good hands… the hands of a qualified professional.  A quality pet sitting service does for a living what they love most… taking care of animals.  Your pets get to enjoy the same care and attention that you provide to them even while you are gone.

One such qualified and trustworthy company based in Highlands Ranch and serving the surrounding vicinities is Katy’s Creature Comforts.  A locally owned and operated pet sitting service that offers affordable, high quality care for your pets, so you can rest assured that your pets are enjoying your time away as much as you are.
Visit Katy’s Creature Comforts for more details

I wanted to take a moment to thank and give credit to Chris McGaw for his artistic and creative graphic design hosted here on BlogCrater.com with the alien peeping out of a moon crater.

Please visit his Denver Graphic Art and Logo web site for his latest imaginative developments.

He also hosts a personal blog site The Free Snowball – Denver Graphic Art and Design Blog where he also displays his talents as photographer, photo-shopper, and line art designer. I highly recommend Chris McGaw for your personal or business graphic design needs.

Excellent presentation given at a4uExpo in London.
The presentation provides steps and and links to more detailed information and recommended plugins to improve your Blog.