Some site improvements are on the way

As the LiveBluesWorld community continues to grow, we're focused on delivering improvements to the site that will help us to promote the blues and connect our members to great music and events. We're currently expecting to release an update to the site by mid February, but wanted to give you a sneak peek at some of the new features and improvements we expect to unleash.

- Mass Uploader for Photos, Videos, and Music/Podcasts. You will now be able to upload up to 100 photos, videos, and songs/podcasts in one fell swoop. That's not to say that adding 100 videos won't take forever, but go grab a beer or five and you'll be all set.

- Blog Improvements - Round 1. We are replacing the fancy yet buggy rich text editor with an improved text editor which has the added benefit of working in Safari. We also added blog tags, previous/next links, and pinging of 3rd-party update services.

- A Music Player Facelift. Improvements include the ability to allow me to feature tracks on the Main page, pop up the player in a new window, loop playback, and shuffle tracks. The player is also now semi- transparent so that the entire player
changes color rather than just the border. It's sweet.

- Higher Video Quality. We're updating the video player to set on a fixed size which will result in better-looking videos.

- Video and Photo Slideshow Widgets Work in RSS Feed Readers. This means that when you pull an RSS feed into your network and that feed has a video or photo slideshow in it, it will work.

There are a lot of small improvements involved in this next update as well. We thought you might like to see what we're working on. And there's more to come in future months.

Stay tuned...