techcrunch.com— Google’s Blogger.com, one of the trailblazers of the whole medium, is about to undergo a substantial upgrade that will improve its usability and help it catch up to the state of the art.
Aug 15, 2006View in Crawl 4
@amire80: Only technical advantage? WordPress, you can have full access to the source and do almost anything with it. Not to mention it's dynamic. The Blogger pages are still generated HTML; this is why you have to throw away everything you know about PHP to customize your theme.And lets not forget how Blogger still can't send trackbacks...Also, the new Blogger beta won't let you edit your theme's source code anymore. A dialog box says this feature is "Coming soon". Joy.
ionutAug 15, 2006
More about the features and detailed screenshots:<a class="user" href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-blogger.html">http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-blogger.html</a>
kaminoAug 15, 2006
Now all they have to do is support domains and offer an option to hide that ugly navbar without CSS hacks.
daisamaAug 15, 2006
I just hope that people start using blogger and not other stupid things like myspace.BTW: Does blogger have technorati tags built in?
razeiAug 15, 2006
How so? Livejournal doesn't even let you embed s**t into the page. :P
drewclaytonAug 16, 2006
i can't autopost to my blog from digg or youtube anymore, i hope this gets fixed
fremAug 17, 2006
@amire80: Only technical advantage? WordPress, you can have full access to the source and do almost anything with it. Not to mention it's dynamic. The Blogger pages are still generated HTML; this is why you have to throw away everything you know about PHP to customize your theme.And lets not forget how Blogger still can't send trackbacks...Also, the new Blogger beta won't let you edit your theme's source code anymore. A dialog box says this feature is "Coming soon". Joy.
epiraterAug 19, 2006
Awesome - I fixed the Css Script so you CAN Remove the blogger beta Navbar etc. Just Digg this - <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/design/Disable_New_Blogger_Beta_Navbar_in_Seconds">http://digg.com/design/Disable_New_Blogger_Beta_Navbar_in_Seconds</a> - to find out how!!
corsairstwAug 23, 2006
I was just wondering today when Blogger was going to undergo an update. I'm glad I found this! Blogger was lagging behind newer services such as Vox.
thewhiteravenNov 1, 2006
Blogger needs to work on a lot more to catch up like allowing multiple pages. Definitely not switching back from wordpress!
leothemasterMay 28, 2007
really nice thx<a class="user" href="http://www.leothemaster.net">http://www.leothemaster.net</a>