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Posted by: mona lisa Feb 10 2006, 08:29 PM
This thread has been created to let members know of any smaller changes, updates, server problems or anything of importance. If you disagree with anything please make a thread in our http://%27http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showforum=64%27 forum and discuss it there.
Please do not post in this thread or your post will be deleted. This will make it easier for others to read without any disturbances. Moderators can bump this topic by posting any relevant information at proper times.
Thank you!
To start off, some recent news on createBog include the following:
- Moderators have the ability to provide a reason when rejecting layouts.
- The topics in Cars, Sports, and Current Events forums previously located under Interests have all been moved to the Lounge.
Posted by: mona lisa Feb 18 2006, 08:40 PM
Since not many people may have noticed, I'll say it here. Several members have asked exactly what cB's standards are for accepting layouts. This has been posted in every design forum. Please take the time to consider these general tips.
As well, please use some of these as guidelines to submitting graphics.
Good
- Clean and uncluttered design
- Readable text and hyperlinks
- Pleasant and suitable color scheme
- Clear theme
- Originality
- Reasonable loading time
- Balance between graphics and text
- Easy navigation
- Fair size and quality of image(s)
- Poor organization
- Overuse of scripts
- Poor quality images
- Jocked images/layout
- Misaligned elements
- Inappropriate/offensive theme
- Use of sTiCkY cAps
- Broken images
- Tacky text or image effects
- Too bright or busy background image
- Use of sliced images (5 is enough)
- Use of ad remover
- Cross browser compatibility (mainly IE and Firefox)
Posted by: mona lisa Feb 28 2006, 05:31 PM
Anyone posting obscene content will be warned. Any offensive or obscene pictures used as avatars or signatures will be removed. If you see anyone doing this, please feel free to PM an Admin or Head Staff to have them removed. Thank you.
Posted by: mona lisa Apr 12 2006, 09:18 PM
Three new tools have been added/updated to http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showforum=7. The http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=128881 will allow you to get the codes of any Xanga or Myspace layout. The http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=394 and http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=957 will work for any site, including Xanga! Enjoy!
Created and provided by the awesome http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showuser=1. =)
Posted by: mona lisa Aug 3 2006, 03:41 PM
Posts made in Feedback now add to your post count and Posts Per Day.
Posted by: mona lisa Aug 9 2006, 03:59 PM
Posts made in the general Blogger/LiveJournal/MySpace/Xanga/Website forums add to your post count and PPD. Meaning if you offer criticism on layouts through the forum, your post count will be upped.
Posted by: mzkandi Aug 13 2006, 12:55 AM
A Current Events http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showforum=83 forum has been added under Interests in the Community Center. 
I added the link. =)
Posted by: mona lisa Sep 17 2006, 12:44 PM
The controversy and piracy rules in the http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=970 have been tweaked and a jocking rule has been added. Note that although the guidelines are subject to change, you are still to follow them so please read over them carefully. Sadly, the controversy rule has been neglected but no longer will be.
Posted by: mona lisa Dec 12 2006, 07:56 PM
Four new forums have been made: http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showforum=87, http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showforum=84, http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showforum=85, and http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showforum=86.
Posted by: mona lisa Jan 25 2007, 11:20 PM
The ___ of the Year contests for 2006 are up and running. It will be a month before the votes are counted, i.e. the deadline for all contests is February 25, 2007. Happy voting and good luck to all participants! 
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=162855
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=164925
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=164924
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=162835
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=164923
Posted by: mzkandi Feb 15 2007, 12:47 AM
The official bylaws are up and running. For further details please check out the http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=970&pid=2457158&st=0&#entry2457158.
Posted by: mona lisa Feb 16 2007, 09:34 PM
Recently, design staff have been reducing clutter in the Resource Center in order to help members. Please use the http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53151, http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=147913, http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14636, and the http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=166457 to your advantage.
Thank you to all those who contributed.
Posted by: mzkandi Feb 18 2007, 08:32 PM
Now that cB's bylaws have been been officially written up the forum has been discontinued. From now on all issues concerning cB shall be taken up in the Feedback forum. I would like to thank everyone who participated as bylaw mods and those who offered their feedback. Without your dedication and patience with this project none of this would have been possible.
Posted by: Duchess_of_Dork May 22 2007, 11:27 AM
As of now, the forums are as is. Meaning, the graphics forum has been merged into the Designers' Cafe'.
There's some feedback going on regarding that. :]
Posted by: micron Jun 1 2007, 05:53 PM
-posts on cb4 pages (submissions + sudomains) now count towards your post count.
-drag and drop in best friend works now after clicking next/prev page.
Posted by: micron Jun 3 2007, 04:03 AM
-confirmation popup before deleting comments
-added more cities and countries
Posted by: micron Jun 3 2007, 04:36 PM
-wink page is now up
Posted by: micron Jun 5 2007, 10:19 PM
-photo pages are up
-submitting stock photos / smilies work now
-you no longer need to "setup blog" to have your blog working
Posted by: micron Jun 6 2007, 02:42 AM
-fixed blog / photo / comment totals
-added new mini profile module for blog + photo pages
-using username instead of location for browse friends, entries, and photos
Posted by: micron Jun 7 2007, 10:17 PM
-added recent entries + photos to your profiles
-removed class .subprofile for mini profile (blog + photos)
Posted by: micron Jul 12 2007, 07:31 PM
ill add the topsite again sometime in the future but at this time we dont have it...
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i fixed the http://www.createblog.com/layouts/grabber.php. works for hi5 and myspace. please keep in mind that you should only use this tool for educational purposes. you may grab codes once every 5 min.
Posted by: micron Jul 16 2007, 07:40 PM
-tracker now supports friendster
-preview now works for layouts (submit layout preview button)
Posted by: micron Jul 20 2007, 04:20 PM
^ submissions stats were added since cb4.
some new stuff
-added friendster and hi5 support forums (resource center -> support center)
-upgraded forum software to latest version
Posted by: micron Jul 21 2007, 03:43 PM
-clicking on the usernames on the forums will now go to the subdomain profile, not the forum profile (dubbed subprofile). to get to the subprofile, youll have to find a post made by that user and click on the username -> view subprofile.
nvm, ill do this later. there seems to be a lot of invalid usernames or usernames that dont match their display names.
Posted by: Insurmountable Oct 9 2007, 04:44 PM
Currently when submitting layouts please upload the images to either tinypic.com or imageshack.us. Photobucket images are having errors on getting uploaded to the server. Hopefully this won't be a long minor issue. If you have any further questions or concerns you can PM a design staff.
Posted by: davinci Oct 12 2007, 08:33 PM
The Contests subforum that used to be below the Feedback forum has been deleted. It wasn't active and usually, the contest didn't really start and follow through. Existing topics were moved to appropriate forums though so if you're interested in starting one, feel free!
Posted by: Insurmountable Nov 6 2007, 01:16 PM
Createblog Support has been added to the support forum
It will be used for
- Tracker questions.
- cB profile questions
- cB support questions.
- Basic forum questions
Posted by: Insurmountable Nov 12 2007, 12:58 PM
Have a myspace, livejournal, blogger, or xanga problem? Find your answer! We now have Resolved Topic subforums in each of these support forums for easy searching of your own problem
Posted by: Insurmountable Dec 18 2007, 05:26 PM
Advice Abby has come back as Ask Alice, anyone have any relationships problems or need any type of advice feel free to ask her
Posted by: superstitious Apr 14 2008, 07:16 PM
Sandbox has been been changed back to its former name, Forum Games.
Posted by: micron Apr 14 2008, 09:34 PM
-fixed tracker setup bugs (delete and re-setup to fix trackers)
-http://createblog.com/layouts/friendid.php
-added submitted + favorited items in http://www.createblog.com/home/
Posted by: micron Apr 14 2008, 10:03 PM
-removed 5 min limit for http://createblog.com/layouts/grabber.php (remember -> educational purposes only!)
Posted by: micron Apr 14 2008, 10:46 PM
-made changes to cb template. if you have a custom layout that hides the cb logo, append this to your header html:
#logo { display:none; }
</style>
Posted by: micron Apr 19 2008, 06:06 PM
-guest can now switch styles on cb4 and forum pages (stored in cookies for guest)
Posted by: micron Apr 20 2008, 01:00 AM
-cb4 submission comments page placement moved to be more inline with the rest of the site. now submission comments also include member photos.
Posted by: micron Apr 22 2008, 04:12 AM
-createblog http://www.createblog.com/leader.php, found at the bottom of every page.
Posted by: micron Apr 29 2008, 03:05 AM
-flood control lowered to 10 sec for cb4 pages
-official members now bypass flood control for cb4 pages
-banned members can no longer post on cb4 pages
Posted by: micron May 1 2008, 04:14 AM
-fixed instand layout previews (submit form).
Posted by: micron May 8 2008, 08:18 PM
-updated layouts browsing page (no more drop downs)
Posted by: superstitious May 20 2008, 06:30 PM
Due to the lack of interest and participation, AskAlice and createsecret are being discontinued.
Posted by: superstitious Aug 5 2008, 11:58 AM
Added the following to the Community Guidelines, even though it has been addressed in the Terms of Use for a long time now. Just wanted to give people a head's up.
When you sign up to become a Member, you are asked to choose a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify CreateBlog immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account. This rule is clearly stated in the http://www.createblog.com/terms.php.
If you share an account and that account is associated with a duplicate, banned or otherwise punished account, that shared account is subject to similar punishment, regardless of whether or not the ip is used to register that account.
For anyone who is sharing accounts, please discontinue immediately. We are not going to be liable for accounts that will be banned, disabled or made "duplicate" because their ip's are associated with duplicate or spam accounts.
Please feel free to PM myself or any other staff member should you have questions, concerns or a dispute regarding a specific banned/suspended/duplicate account.
Posted by: karmakiller Aug 7 2008, 01:28 PM
Members' Photos can now only be viewed by registered users.
Posted by: superstitious Aug 25 2008, 02:09 PM
Creating multiple accounts without permission is NOT allowed. Depending on the severity of the situation, anyone who is caught doing this will receive punishment, which may include raised warning level, mod preview, disabled posting, or a banned account. All duplicate accounts will immediately be disabled.
SHARING ACCOUNTS
When you sign up to become a Member, you are asked to choose a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify CreateBlog immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account. This rule is clearly stated in the http://www.createblog.com/terms.php.
I feel a need to remind people of these rules. If an IP lookup is performed on your username and someone else appears to have been posting with your account, you will receive a raised warn level. If for some reason the warn level was raised in error, please PM one of the administrators to correct the error. Know that we are humans and can make mistakes. However, if ip associated with someone who posts regularly on a different account is found to be using your account, a red flag will be raised.
About duplicate accounts. Just don't. There is no reason why you should be creating a duplicate account. If it's a name issue, wait until you can change your name. If you make a duplicate account, you warn level will be raised in addition to the duplicate account's user group being updated to "Duplicate."
I've 'bumped' these rules out of courtesy.
Posted by: superstitious Oct 8 2008, 01:18 PM
Poll topic bumping has been disabled.
(meaning, if you vote in a topic, that topic will not be bumped to the most recent topics)
Posted by: superstitious Oct 17 2008, 09:00 PM
Effective 10/17/08, warnings will no longer be given for failing to remove image tags when quoting or failing to thumb large images. That being said, please try to be courteous and not quote an image if the image has been posted on the current page or stretch the forums with large images. Please note that staff members may opt to edit your post to thumb large images and/or remove image tags when posts contain quoted images.
Rule update.
Posted by: superstitious Aug 23 2009, 04:02 PM
The old cB FAQs thread has been removed. Please reference the http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=229039 thread.
Any site related questions should be asked in the http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showforum=97 subforum.