Thank you for choosing Zomplog for your site! I've made this weblog system because I think weblogging is at the heart of the democratisation of the media. Weblogging enables anyone to broadcast their ideas, movies and audio, which is a great thing!

Yet many of the major weblog systems require a lot of technical knowledge from their users, thus excluding the majority of the internet-users. That's the reason why I started building Zomplog: I wanted to make a system that is easy to use and logical to any user, not just programmers. Let me know what you think about Zomplog! Your feedback helps me a lot to improve the system even more!

I've tried to make the installation-process as simple as possible. Make sure the database exists before running the install script.

• unzip all files into one directory (you can rename it to whatever you like)
• open 'config.php.default' (in the "admin" folder), fill out your database settings and save as 'config.php'.
• upload everything (if you can, use "passive-mode")
• open your webbrowser and go to the "install" directory (which can be found at http://www.yoursite.com/your_zomplog_folder/install/). Just follow the steps on the screen. This file will install all necessary tables in the database. If all went well, you will be able to create a weblog-title and an administrator username & password.
• if you want to be able to upload images from within Zomplog, set the permissions of the folders "thumbs" and "upload" to 777.
• you're done!
• if you want to get more out of Zomplog, the tips and tricks page is a good starting-point!
  

More information can be found in the online documentation, where you'll also find plugins, themes and language files to extend the functionality of your site.

I want to thank Frank Hoek, who recently joined the development team, and completely revised the language files, helped me testing, recoding, fixing bugs and pointed out some more bugs whenever I thought I was done :) Thanks to Frank this version is stable even before its first release!

If you like Zomplog, promote it in your community, or install it for a friend. Help me to to make my dream of media in the hands of the people come true!