We now have all the basic (expected) functionality for blogging.  Here's a complete list of features:

• Editable title area (banner)
• Customizable background color
• RSS feed (news readers can automatically detect new blog entries)
• A short (snippet) and long blog entry.
• A fully customizable blog sidebar
• Two-stage publishing of blog entries - this means you can enter your blog entry and look at it before deciding to make it visible to your readers.
• Timed publishing of blog entries - If you want to write your blog entries in advance then you can control the date and time that the blog entry becomes visible to readers.

A collection of choices to include in the blog sidebar including:

• About information including a tagline and a picture
• A generic blog logo
• Blog Roll - collection of links to other blogs
• Tag Index - A custom list of categories for people to find your blog entries
• Links to your most recent entries
• An archive of old entries
• A seasonal hiking graphic

The final piece we added was archiving of old blog entries.  Now a list of months shows up in the archive on the right sidebar of the blog.  If you click on a month you see all the blog entries abbreviated from that month.

The other new feature added is the ability to edit existing blog entries.  If the edited blog entry was already visible to readers at the time of the edit then the entry is marked as edited with the date and time.