We have just added SweetCircles.com’s in-built bookmarking widget for sharing and bookmarking your blog posts. By using the widget you can easily share your blog posts with your friends through Facebook, Orkut, Yahoo! Buzz, Digg, Twitter, StumbleUpon or directly mail them your blog posts. It helps to increase your blog’s readership and wide spread your blogs reach to more people.

By default the bookmark widget will be displayed below each of your post title and at the end of the post. If you are not interested in showing and sharing your posts you can disable the widgets by clicking on the “Social Bookmarking tool settings” option on the admin ‘Preferences‘ tab.

The new Import Blog feature helps you import your Blogger.com or Wordpress.com blog to SweetCircles.com blog. The whole process is made simple, by using the “Import Blog” option from your ‘Preferences’ admin panel. Just choose the Blogging platform and upload the Blogger or Wordpress blog’s  ‘.xml’ file and our system will automagically import the whole blog posts along with the comments, tags in your Blogger or Wordpress blog in a jiffy.

We have completely revamped the look and feel of the admin and internal pages with a more pleasing and appealing colors. We have also optimized the entire site to load faster even in slower internet connections.

Redesigned Profile Page

Redesigned Admin Page

Larger Profile Image

Now you can upload your larger profile image, which will be resized in a bigger dimensional image that would be shown in your blog as well as in your profile page. To add your new profile page visit: http://sweetcircles.com/edit-profile

Show Posts in Ascending or Descending order

You can now organize your posts in ascending or descending order. This option will let you display your blog posts either in the order of latest to oldest posts or vice versa. To change your blog posts order, go to ‘Preferences’ tab and select the ‘Post Settings’ option and choose the ‘Sort Post by’ list menu.

Show/Hide Timestamp in Blog Posts

Now you can also show or hide your blog posts timestamps (date and time) based on your preference. To show or hide the timestamp in your blog posts go to ‘Preference’ tab option and select the ‘Post Settings’ option and in the ‘Date Format’ and ‘Time Format’ list menu select the ‘Don’t Show Date’ or ‘Don’t Show Time’ option respectively to remove the default date and time from your posts.

If you had visited Sweetcircles.com recently, you would have noticed that the home page has been completely redesigned. Striking colors and more pleasing designs are what you see now. You’ll be surprised by the additions we’ve made. We’ve included ‘Games‘ to refresh you and you needn’t even login to start playing them. There is the colorful ‘Seasonal Bar‘ on the top, which changes periodically to mark the onset of different seasons like Christmas, New Year etc. Now the home page will display only the list of ‘Recently Featured Blogs’. Check it out and drop in your comments.

Designs form the most important part of your blog. Having regard to the diverse tastes and preference of users, we have plenty of designs for you to choose from.

For your convenience, now we have classified the themes into two broad categories – ‘Simple Themes’ and ‘Rich & Colorful Themes’.

Under the ‘Simple Themes’ we have added fresh 26 simple new designs. To integrate a more sober appearance to your blog, you can look up the Simple category. Rich & Colorful themes, on the contrary, are capable of imparting a richer look to your blog.

There could be times when the content you are uploading for your post may contain some off color phrases or may be meant for adult reading only. In such cases, we recommend you to give a content warning to your readers. This would enable your readers exercise due caution before proceeding to read your post.

We have provided support for enabling content warning for your blog. To enable ‘content warning‘, in your New Post page, click on ‘More Options‘ option. 

There you will find the ‘Display Post Content Warning’ check box.

Checking on this option will display a content warning message before your readers read your blog.

You can also set ‘content warning’ for your blog by default. To enable content warning for your blog, go to ‘Preference’ tab in your admin page and select the ‘Display Post Content Warning’ checkbox to enable content warning.

We have completely revamped the ‘Post page editor‘ to enable the page load faster and publish your blog posts in less time.

Animated Smiles

We have introduced a good number of animated smiles so as to make your blog communicate more effectively to the readers.

Just select the ‘Insert Emotions‘ button in your post editor and you’ll find tons of expressive smiles representing different moods.

Post in-built Spell-check

With the new in-built Spellchecker, you can now easily check for spelling errors in your blog posts.

Apart from the default English spell-check, we also have provided spell-check for other languages like French, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

If you have lately logged on to our site, you would have noticed some changes in your Profile page. We have opted for this new style to help you navigate with the options more easily and quickly. Once you’re logged in, you’ll observe that there’s just one section ‘ Your Blogs.’

You might wonder where the other sections have gone. It’s all there appearing as links at the Top Right corner. By clicking on each of these links, you can get to the respective sections.

Next, you will find the ‘Set Default Page’ option on top of your profile page; it helps you to set the default page you would to go immediately when you login.

Suppose you want to go directly to your ‘New Post’ page immediately after you login, without going to the ‘Profile’ page, you can set the default page option to the ‘Your Blog Name : Post Page‘. This will directly take you to your blog’s new post page immediately after you login without going to ‘Profile‘ page.

That’s not all; just move your cursor to the different links: New Post, Comments, Design, Widgets, Forum and Preference. A drop down under each category shows up; for example when you move your cursor to the ‘New Post’ option you will also find more options like ‘Edit Post’, ‘Edit Draft’, ‘Create Tags’.

This saves your time and reduces those unnecessary clicks. If you need to customize your design, you can directly click on ‘Customize Design‘ under the ‘Design‘ tab rather than go through a series of steps that entails a cumbersome task.

This new Profile navigation will help you get blogging done faster.

We invite your suggestions and feedback about the new change? Please do write us about your feedback using our contact page or directly email us at people@sweetcircles.com.

You can change or organize the sidebar elements based on your preference. To arrange or rearrange a sidebar element, go to your Design tab and select the ‘Customize Design‘option.

 Once you get to the ‘Customize Design‘ page, in the left side of the preview pan of your blog and the side tool bar. On the right hand side of your blog, you will see elements of your sidebar you have added to your blog like – About Me, My Sweetcircles, Favourite links, Archives, Categories, Gossipad, Forum, RSS.

You can drag and drop this dotted box elements in any order based on your priorities. That would just require you dragging the tool and placing it at any position you want.

Example: if you want My Media to move to the top of your sidebar, just drag the My Media element dotted box and move it to the top of the sidebar and press ‘Save Theme’ to save your settings.