It has been a couple weeks now since officially announcing our launch and in that time we have been working on some exciting new features.

More Font & Color Choices

One of the most requested features has been to add even better options for customizing our sites. In particular, people wanted color and font choices for the main menus. So last week we quietly released both to our Latte and Cuppa Joe themes. You can now choose from several fonts and colors for every aspect of the main menu, the headings for each page and post, and you can even choose between fonts for the text of the whole site.

EDIT: As of 9:00 PM Friday, we just added fonts and colors to the Espresso themes as well!

Fonts are notoriously plain in websites because browsers only support a handful of fonts that mostly look the same. To get around this, there is a technique known as “@font-face” that allows us to embed (almost) any font we would like to use. Thanks to the amazing font site FontSquirrel, we are able to offer a great selection of fonts to really customize your site.

You can find the new font options by logging into your site and visiting “BlogSite Options->Style Options->Font Options”.

Music

A close second to fonts has been music. We added a plugin called wpaudio that allows you to embed any mp3 file within any post or page anywhere on the site. You can find instructions for adding audio on our support site.

Video

The ability to add Video was always there but the way to do it is not immediately obvious. The only thing we did to make this easier was write up some instructions for adding video.

Better Support Documentation

This one is boring but important. As I mentioned above with music and video, we have added some improved documentation to the support site, making it even easier to get up and running.

More Themes coming soon…

Themes determine the overall look and layout of your site. Each of our themes has distinct font and color choices and can really change the feel of your site.

We currently have three to choose from:

• Latte – View Demo
• Cuppa Joe – View Demo
• Espresso – View Demo

The first step in customizing your site is to choose one of these themes. Then you can play with fonts and colors within each theme.

Every Photography BlogSites user will always have access to any new themes we release. Even better, the themes are all built to work together so that the content will work within any theme. This means you can switch the look of your site at any time, as many times as you want.

Coming in the next week or two, we will be releasing some new themes so stay tuned for the official releases!

Keep The Feature Requests Coming!

I would like to thank everyone who has signed up for trying us out early on and for giving us such great feedback along the way. We are always open to suggestions and will prioritize based on the kind of requests we get. So use the forum, or add a comment below and let us know what we could add to make the BlogSites even better.

Early in 2009, we sat down to discuss a more efficient way for photographers to display their work online. We had been working with photographers, and discussed the idea of an all-in-one blogsite that looks and feels like a flash site, with all the SEO benefits of a WordPress Blog. We made our wish list; social media integration, customization, easy-to-use backend, unlimited galleries, integration of fantastic photography tools like ShootQ, etc, etc. After developing many, many custom blogsites, we saw our theories in action and set out to develop Photography Blogsites.  Affordable, Easy-to-use, WordPress Portfolio Websites for Photographers.

We are offering an introductory lifetime membership for $499. That includes our search engine optimized blogsite, any new themes, 4 GB of hosting, our support, maintenance, upgrades and much, much more. For a full list of features visit our features section. No recurring costs…ever! But act fast! The offer will expire 11:59 PM on November 30, 2010. Extended until March 31, 2011!

Sign up for your free 7-day trial 14-day trial, and purchase your Lifetime Membership in your Blog Account area under the Dashboard. This is a limited time offer. See Terms and Conditions for full details.

We’d love to hear your thoughts as we will keep developing our sites to be the best they can be. As always, thank you so much for your support!

You may have noticed things have gotten dressed up a little.

We still have tons of content to add and may keep tweaking some things but it’s looking better, right?

Our demo site has been functioning for a while but was only known to people we shared the link with. It is now fully visible and ready to go , so take a look.

Our support forum has been getting some great feedback from the early beta testers, so if you are curious about seeing what is happening behind the scenes, feel free to check that out as well.

What do you think?