Better Post Previews – See how your post will look to readers
After a hardworking weekend, I found an awesome treat in my feed reader this morning! Blogger in Draft today published details of the enhancements to the post preview feature of our blogs which enables us to see how our posts will look to readers: Up until now, when we preview a post we are writing for our Blogger powered blogs, we have seen only a white, format-less version of our musings, with none of the formatting and visual style which is added by our template and CSS. With this new feature in place, we can see preview exactly what the post will look like when published, including any style attributes generated by our template code.
Issues with the Twitter Updates Gadget (and others)
I’ve been made aware of the issues many Blogger users are experiencing with the Twitter Updates gadget. At present, this is showing “tweets” from the user @undefined and ignores user preferences for the number of tweets to be displayed.
Profile Avatars for Blogger Comments – Updated
Displaying avatars beside comments in our blogs has been a long anticipated feature. Today, the Blogger Team announced that this feature is now enabled for Blogger blogs , allowing us to see the profile image or avatar of those leaving comments on our posts: Today we have extended embedded comments to display profile images next to the comments that your visitors write
Share Posts from the Blogger NavBar
Yet more treats for Blogger’s 10th birthday celebrations were released for us today! An additional button in the Blogger Navbar now enables us to share our posts via Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader and by email: When a reader clicks the “Share” link on your blog’s home page, they can opt to share the URL of your blog by Twitter, Facebook or Google Reader.
Improved Label Gadgets – Now Supporting Label Clouds and More!
As part of Blogger’s 10th Birthday celebrations , the Blogger team have been hard at work developing enhancements and new features. Today, Blogger launched an enhanced “Labels” gadget which now supports label clouds, and allows us to choose which of our labels are displayed within the gadget: In April, we announced that we wanted to hear from you about your wish list for features in Blogger. Many of you said that the label gadget should be more flexible
Happy 10th Birthday Blogger!
Today marks ten years since Pyra Labs first unleashed Blogger onto the world! And how Blogger has grown: from humble beginnings to a multi-national, multi-lingual , Google-owned , highly powerful publishing platform which hosts over 300 million blogs (not counting those hosted on custom domains…). In celebration of this remarkable date, the Blogger Team have planned some wonderful treats for the Blogger community: Wait, what
Blogger Read More/Post Summaries – The Best News Yet!
One of the functions most voted for in Blogger’s recent Product Ideas forum was the ability to summarize blog posts on non-item pages. I’ve written about a few different approaches to this, but these methods were never so easy to implement. Luckily I came across this tutorial from Quite Random which offers the simplest – and most useful – method of displaying post summaries automatically for our Blogger posts, complete with a thumbnail from images used in our posts.
Google Blogger for Dummies – Full Review
Some time ago, I was able to preview Susan Gunelius’ new book, Google Blogger for Dummies , which is now available to buy from your local bookstore. After receiving my own copy, I’ve spent the past few weeks reading intently in order to provide you all with my full review of this “Dummies” guide. Blogger for Dummies ?
Blogger wants to hear from us!
The Blogger Team have released Product Ideas for Blogger : a forum based on the Product Ideas platform which enables us to suggest and vote on new Blogger features, gadgets and even Blogs of Note : One of the primary factors that drive innovation and improvements on Blogger is the voice of our users.
Adsense integration now easier than ever with Blogger’s Monetize tab
Have you noticed the new “Monetize” tab at the top of your Blogger dashboard? This new section of our Blogger dashboards makes it easier than ever to integrate Google Adsense in our blogs and see just how much our blogs are earning. Google’s Adsense program is a simple solution which many Bloggers use to monetize their sites
