Browse entries tagged "pixelpost"

John Washington import from PixelPost

Tuesday Sep 09, 2008

John Washington Self Portrait

Some of you may have noticed the presence of longtime photoblogger, John Washington on PixyBlog over the last few weeks. He appeared in the top-spot our Hall-of-Fame Photos and also made an impact on our Hot Photoblogs rankings. So it wouldn't have taken a genius to guess that he might well be in the process of migrating to PixyBlog. He is. He has.

So another big PixyBlog welcome to John Washington. Along with all the other migrations we've been working on lately, John is not only the latest but the largest. With over 600 photos going back to 2005, he has a huge portfolio of work, an established website and an army of readers/subscribers.

John has essentially been involved with PixyBlog since the beginning, and although he continued to blog on his PixelPost site for the past two years, it was always our intention that John be the first PixelPost import. That didn't quite happen, but it's great to finally have John as part of the community.

We migrated John's highly customized PixelPost site, which was a Frankenstein creation of two PixelPost instances running side-by-side. One instance powered his photoblog, while another was used to separate his projects from his photoblog. Over the years he had continually developed his own customized theme which also needed to be migrated.

It took us a few weeks, but finally at the weekend we managed to swap John's site over to use PixyBlog. We changed his domain name yesterday and now his site is live and currently number one in the days Hot Photoblogs.

Posted at 10:39AM Sep 09, 2008 by Richard Jones | Comments[1]

Custom photoblog imported to PixyBlog

Thursday Sep 04, 2008

A big PixyBlog welcome to Jacques Bron.

After reading about our PixelPost to PixyBlog import feature, Jacques contacted us about his existing photoblog which was running on software that is no-longer supported by the developers, and he expressed interest in migrating his site, photos, descriptions and comments to PixyBlog.

Being a part-time software developer, we supplied Jacques with some sample data in the format we need to import to PixyBlog (a simple XML document), and one week later we get an email with the data in the exact format we require. Today we ran the import without any problems, and now Jacques is the newest member of our community with a back catalog of over 500 photos going back more than 2 years. Check-out his photoblog, and welcome him to PixyBlog.

It's great to know our import isn't just for PixelPost, but can be easily adapted to other photoblog platforms.

Anyone else out-there who wants to migrate to us?

Posted at 08:23AM Sep 04, 2008 by Richard Jones | Comments[3]

First Pixel Post import

Tuesday Aug 19, 2008

Richard Hollingworth was the first migration from Pixel Post to PixyBlog using our new Pixel Post export addon. We worked with Richard to export over 300 photos & descriptions and hundreds more comments going back more than 4 years. The migration went smoothly and all his work over the years has been retained on PixyBlog.

We have a few more photographers lined-up for migration soon, so keep watching our directory of photographers to see who's joining PixyBlog.

Posted at 10:45AM Aug 19, 2008 by Richard Jones | Comments[1]

Pixel Post to PixyBlog

Monday Aug 11, 2008

Do you have a Pixel Post site which you are having trouble maintaining?

Are you having problems getting support from your hosting company?

Need a secure place to back-up your photos?

Have a photoblog but no community?

Any of these could be a reason for migrating your photoblog to PixyBlog. We've now made it easier than ever for Pixel Post users to export their photos, descriptions and comments to PixyBlog. With our new Pixel Post addon you can have your existing photoblog migrated to PixyBlog in just minutes.

For more information, or to download the addon, please read the Pixel Post to PixyBlog article on our wiki.

Posted at 12:09PM Aug 11, 2008 by Richard Jones |