There are several updates to the blogging capabilities of Hiking Ideas this week.  These new capabilities are available to anyone who has created a blog on our site.

We have updated the blogging capabilities to include more control over your blog home page.  You can now fully customize the banner and format the information in the right-hand sidebar.  There are five different pieces of information to choose from in your blog sidebar. 

• About (including a photo and tagline)
• Logo (this adds the standard blog logo image for Hiking Ideas
• Blog Roll (this adds an area that you can customize to include links to other blogs organized by categories that you enter)
• Recent Entries (this will include links to the most recent 10 entries in your blog)
• Seasons (this includes the same seasonal graphic that appears on the home page of Hiking Ideas. This graphic changes with seasons and holidays).

In addition to the control of the sidebar information you can also choose between 10 different background colors for you blog.  All the standard images that appear that appear in the blog have been blended to work with these standard background colors.