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
• 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!
  

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 Loscho, who created several new themes for this version and Jaime, Stefferson, Davinci, Wesley and Royz for all their efforts to help me improve zomplog! Thanks guys, you make developing Zomplog even more fun! Keep thinking along!

Zomplog is mainly developed and maintained by me, and I don't have an army behind me, nor the money or resources to help promote Zomplog. So 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!