Today we have taken BlogHer.org live with a beta launch. [Note: The domain's DNS settings were changed only 14 hours ago, so if you go to the domain and see a Typepad site, please try again in a few hours.]

This is a community site built to serve both as a community base for the BlogHer Conference 2006 and as a directory to answer the ever-persistent question asked by A-list bloggers, "Where are all the women bloggers?" (Where? BlogHer.org is where!)

Our official association with BlogHer began last year, when we hosted the BlogHer chatroom. We are delighted to have been able to expand our involvement with this community by designing and developing their new website using Drupal.

It would have been wonderful to implement this site in Drupal 4.7, but our timetable was too pressing and our contributed modular needs were too demanding. So the site is built on Drupal 4.6, with several contributed modules, a few module hacks and a handful of php scripts to achieve what Drupal's not quite designed to do "out of the box."

The site is still in beta. There are some odds and ends of code to add, some theme tweaks and so on. (If anyone finds any bugs, please let us know using the website feedback form on BlogHer. Thanks!)

More on this later.

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