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Another 6 months passed by since Alpha 3 release  . Time really flies! OK, here's our new release: New Features - Added more blog servers support. You may find out more details about supported blog servers here.
- Added the capability to preview blog being edited based on actual blog template on your server.
- Added WordPress slug URL and password protection support.
- Removed Collection management, but added Status, Tag and Category management.
- Rearranged buttons on the Home tab for editors.
- Password is no longer compulsory for database protection.
- Now pressing Enter in the editor will result in a <p> tag instead of a <div> tab.
- Now you may disable the blog synchronization feature, which will also remove the preceding WebStory synchronization ID from your published blog.
- Added support to notify Ping servers upon publishing blogs.
- Added Find and Replace functionality for editors.
- Added Blog Archive link library, so that you may easily link back to your previously published blogs.
- Added Blog Backup functionality. Now you may back up your blogs via this feature if you opted not to perform the back up during your blog account setup.
- Added the support to launch web browser to visit your newly published blog upon successful publication.
- Added support for refreshing Web Album.
- Added the capability to allow customization of the default behavior when pressing Insert Picture button. You may default it to always insert from local files, instead of previously you have to start from the first page of the wizard.
- Now WebStory will remember the last 5 accessed database.
- Many other unnamed small improvements.
Bug Fixes - Solved the back up limitation of Windows Live Spaces.
- Many other unnamed bugs.
For new users who are interested to evaluate this alpha version, please contact me at [support (at) webstory.my].
It's been almost 4 months since Alpha 2 release, sorry to keep you guys waiting for so long . But thanks to the numerous constructive feedback and bug reports, here's what have been done for this new Alpha 3: New Features- Added a more straightforward way to add pictures to an article, which no longer requires to add photo to Photo Album first.
- Added the ability to insert web pictures directly into an article.
- Blogs will be backed up immediatly during Blog Account setup.
- If a backed up blog contains pictures from the web, they will be downloaded automatically when the article is opened.
- Photo thumbnails will be downloaded immediately during Photo Sharing Account setup.
- Added the ability to back up photos from Photo Sharing Account.
- Added new "Position" tab for setting picture alignment, border and margin in Picture Properties dialog.
- Added Insert Picture and Insert Hyperlink button to Quick Access Toolbar.
- Added support for dasBlog, b2evolution, Community Server, .TEXT, ExpressionEngine, Radio Userland and Serendipity.
- Many other unnamed small improvements.
Bug Fixes- Same blog account can be created twice.
- Picture lock ratio does not work properly in Picture Properties window.
- The problem of zooming and rotation in Photo Editor.
- Commas are not recognized in multiple tags entry.
- Access Violation error is raised when trying to Refresh Blog List from main form.
- Edit photo properties, click "Save" will cause database error.
- In WYSIWYG Blog Editor, place Intro Tag as first or last item will cause blog publishing error.
- In Windows Vista, an error message of "Invalid ImageList" will be shown in WYSIWYG Blog Editor when hiding Intro Tag.
- Blog account password becomes empty after account info is updated.
- No horizontal scroll bar for HTML Source View.
- Unable to download blog category.
- Many other unnamed bugs.
For new users who are interested to evaluate this alpha version, please contact me at [support (at) webstory.my].
This new alpha includes several major enhancements based on some feedbacks from you guys, plus numerous bug fixes  . For new users who are interested to evaluate this alpha version, please contact me at [support (at) webstory.my].
At last we have come to the very first alpha of WebStory 3.0  . Here are some previews of the new UI for WebStory 3.0 Alpha 1:
Brand new user interface — WebStory 3.0 is now Ribbon-based.
More emoticons to express your moods 
And of course, we are in need of some serious alpha testers now. This is an invite-only test program, so if you feel that you could spare some time to try out and give us feedback about how you feel about the upcoming WebStory 3.0, please feel free to drop us a mail at [support (at) webstory.my].
Today WebStory's home has been given a total face lift :)
Next would be plunging back to work to speed up the development of new version. In the mean time, if you have any specific feature request, you may leave a comment here or write to me directly at [support (at) webstory.my].
Blogging should be a cool experience for all bloggers; as a blogger, we could write blogs for all our daily lifes, we share what we come across each day in blogs, we blog about what we think, we do photo blogging and all sort of forms of blogging that we could imagine, be it text blogging, photo blogging, video blogging, mobile blogging, voice blogging... But it's also a shared experience of many bloggers, who have been used to blogging on blogger.com, typepad.com, livejournal.com or other popular blog service providers, that sometimes blogging could be not-so-trivial when posting the blogs via online editors.
Using those online blog editors, we often encounter problems like:
- the need to know some HTML tags in order to do some "advanced" formatting
- the slow response that sometimes might cause our painstakingly-written-up blogs to be lost when hitting the submit button
- the lack of a straightforward way to insert images into blog content
- no offline backup for your blogs
- no integrated spell checker
- and many others
Considering the problems faced by bloggers, some times it is more handy and efficient to utilize some blog client software or tools to help a blogger to focus on the blog writing, instead of meddling with all those irrelevant trivial blogging problems. If you are looking for a blog helper for your blog writing task, perhaps you have just found the right blog. Check out Chrysanth Webstory and see what it could do for you :) 
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