We could not let 2008 go without announcing what is probably the most exciting project in 2009: Dotclear Lab.
2008 Dec 31
By Olivier on Wednesday 31 December 2008, 20:13
We could not let 2008 go without announcing what is probably the most exciting project in 2009: Dotclear Lab.
2008 Dec 29
By Olivier on Monday 29 December 2008, 18:02
The end of year 2008 is nearing, we can now look back on what we have achieved. The outcomes are both positive and encouraging, but it's certainly nothing compared to what is coming up in 2009.
2008 Dec 21
By Olivier on Sunday 21 December 2008, 17:59
Just before the Holidays, here is Dotclear 2.1.4. This version fixes a security problem and brings some new enhancements. We naturally recommend this update to all users.
2008 Dec 14
By Olivier on Sunday 14 December 2008, 21:41
French ISP Free.fr, providing Internet, TV and telephone access to more than 3.350.000 French households, is now offering a completely free blog service entirely supported by Dotclear. Presently in test phase, this service will be available for everyone, be they customers of the ISP or not.
Free.fr has been providing a no-cost web hosting service known as “pages perso” for several years now, and if installing Dotclear 1 on this platform was not always easy, things changed after the release of Dotclear 2.0 this summer as Yohan, “pages perso” manager, decided to offer PostgreSQL along with MySQL, making it very easy for people with blogs running on Dotclear 1 to migrate to Dotclear 2. Free.fr made other moves to make using Dotclear on “pages perso” smoother and finally decided to offer Dotclear blogs.
A few mails and discussions later, the result is on blog.free.fr. So far the feedback is excellent. One of our French user reported that setting up a Dotclear blog of Free.fr platform barely took 20 seconds. The platform offers the most recent themes and Yohan should add specific enhancements to the platform in the near future. On the technical side, Free.fr blog platforms runs with only one installation of Dotclear, taking full advantage of the multi-blog functionality of the engine.
We are very excited that Dotclear was chosen to run this no-cost, add-free platform, and we think it's a great opportunity for people who wish to start a blog but don't like the technical aspects of installing and managing their own blog application.