5. Will postings be reviewed and approved before posting?
6. Will comments be reviewed and approved before posting?
7. Will an administrator have the ability to delete postings after they have been published?
8. Will an administrator have the ability to delete comments after they have been published?
9. Will an RSS feed of the Blog be made available?
10. What are the database fields for the blog?
a. Date
b. Title
c. Body
d. Profile
i. Name
ii. Location
iii. Description
11. Will there be an archive?
12. Will blog entries be archived by month?
13. Which fields will be available for the blog entry?
a. Title - main title of the post,
b. Body - main content of the post,
c. Comments - comments added by readers
d. Category (or tags) - category the post is labeled with (optional, multiple categories possible)
e. Permalink - the URL of the full, individual article
f. Post Date - date and time the post was published
g. Trackback - links back from other sites
* List of blog fields from Wikipedia
14. How will the blog deal with spammers?
15. Would you like certain words to be automatically filtered? This can work in two ways. See below.
a. We can use a set list of common profanities. If a profanity is used in either a blog or a comment, the entry will not publish to the site.
b. We can give you the ability to build a list manually and update the list whenever a new bad word comes to mind.
Ivy Hastings is a Project Manager at, Fusionbox a Denver web design company. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Ivy has written many articles about Internet Marketing for journals, blogs and publications. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for Arts Street, a Denver non-profit that teaches underserved youth job skills.