http://lurecaster.com Services for O-fish-ionados Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:23:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All the sites have been upgraded to the latest wordpress release. Enjoy http://lurecaster.com/blog/2008/09/01/sites-upgraded/ We have recently moved Lurecaster.com to new servers at Equinix Data center in Sydney, Australia. Australians should notice a dramatic improvement to speed on sites. http://lurecaster.com/blog/2008/04/02/new-server/ With any site, it has to be hosted somewhere. Usually the options are local Australian hosting, or Overseas hosting. To sum up the benefits of each, overseas hosting is cheaper, and Australian based hosting has faster response times, it's a balance really. You can start with overseas hosting, and as your ... http://lurecaster.com/blog/2007/12/09/building-a-better-fishing-business-website-an-aussie-entrepreneurs-short-guide/ Want to trade some gear? want a place to advertise your lures, tackle or boat your selling? Login to trade.lurecaster.com and advertise for free! http://lurecaster.com/blog/2007/12/07/lurecastercom-free-fishing-oriented-trading-site-tradelurecastercom/ Want an email address like MYNAME@lurecaster.com to go along with your site MYNAME.lurecaster.com? Now you can, and with a top of the line webmail interface. Lurecaster.com has partnered with Google to provide free email accounts, calendaring, and a custom Google search page for our users. You must have a blog/site on lurecaster.com ... http://lurecaster.com/blog/2007/11/29/free-email-calendaring-and-search-on-lurecastercom/ You can now change your blog/website address from within the management screen of your site. Just go to Options / Publishing and enter the new site address (subject to availability of course!) http://lurecaster.com/blog/2007/10/29/change-blog-address/ We have installed Spam Karma 2 for users in the plugins section of your site, as well as Bad Behaviour. Both these plugins will help in fighting 'comment spam' You are advised to switch these on in your blogs, to help avoid those nasty spam bots from posting a lot of ... http://lurecaster.com/blog/2007/09/20/spam-karma-2-and-bad-behaviour-installed/ Photo Galleries have been added, and you can also see your usage of uploads from the users Dashboard now, initially we have set this to 10meg a user, but will be raising this as needed. The main menu to manage the Photo Gallery is in : Manage -> Photo Gallery You can set ... http://lurecaster.com/blog/2007/09/14/photo-albums-added/ You may notice now you can add links to video on YouTube and Google Video amongst others, as well as link to an FLV (flash video) file on another server. There's an icon on the 'write post' page for this, and you can see it in action here http://lurecaster.com/blog/2007/09/14/flash-video-ability-added/ Welcome to lurecaster.com, a blogging service for the fisher-folk. Blogs allow you to keep an online journal of your fishing, in a more personalised way. And we hope that the ongoing improvements to the service should see a great number of lure casters ( ok .. and those that use bait ... http://lurecaster.com/blog/2007/09/13/welcome-and-thanks/