This blog is running votay software and it's all open source, but there isn't any documentation. Until now that is. Okay here is the quick and simple docs on how to setup votay on your own google app engine account and run your own blog. This isn't for everyone yet. You'll have to really want to run votay to jump through these hoops but hey, it's free. Also I'm hoping someone else forks the github project and really runs with it. Then someday we can have a product that competes with wordpress.

Step 1. Clone the github repo and change the app.yaml application name to your GAE app name and deploy the app.

Step 2. Goto http://yourappname.appspot.com/admin and select the create author link. Make yourself at least one author.

Step 3. Go back to the main admin page and select manage images. You can't delete images yet. Upload it again with a new filename to replace an image. Once image is uploaded copy the filename to your clipboard.

Step 4. Go back to the main admin page and select create post. Give it a title, and paste the image filename into the textfield. Write your story or paste in some html to the markup textarea. Notice how to use an html comment with the word break to tell votay where to stop the preview and make a "read more" link.

After you save it the post will be in preview only mode. From the admin section select the edit post link and change the Published option to live.

Then you can add "features" to make certain blog post stand out on the home page. Also you can edit all the templates and replace any hard coded votay.com references. That should get you going. The admin section is only accessible to the owner of the GAE app or other people he gives admin access to. A normal gmail account will let you post comments but not access /admin. If you get stuck please contact us.