The New Blogger GUI (2011) was pushed out, during the past week, to a number of blog owners - and the complaints are showing up in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken. Some are polite.
Unfortunately, there are real reasons why the New GUI has been developed - and those reasons are not going to go away. The New GUI is here - to stay. Right now, comprehensive and objective criticism is needed, to convince Blogger to make it better - before they remove the Classic GUI altogether.
Both major and minor features, developed recently by other groups in Blogger, and by other divisions of Google, are integrated into the New GUI.
As long as Blogger has to maintain two GUI versions, they will have to move slower to keep both versions working. Staff has to be employed to both maintain both versions, and keep the various features in both versions working together. As long as there are two versions of the GUI, some staff, that should be improving the New GUI, is going to be busy supporting the Classic GUI.
One of the causes, of some New GUI problems, involves people switching back and forth between the two GUIs, to better use the features that they prefer. If you have observed problems with your blog recently
Yet, there are features that are present in the Classic GUI, that need to be added to the New GUI, before substantial numbers of people can start using the New GUI. In order to identify those features, enough people have to start using the New GUI - and let Blogger know what features are missing, that need to be provided, immediately.
We have a problem rollup discussion, currently hosted in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, where we am actively soliciting comments from people who have tried the New Blogger GUI. Please keep your comments brief, polite, and on topic.
Just try to make your comments before it's too late - when The New Blogger Interface becomes The Blogger Interface.
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Please, Blogger - allow us the option of staying with the old format.and some less polite
Are you listening Google? Your new interface SUCKS!Only one thing is obvious - many people, suddenly finding themselves using the New GUI, do not like the New GUI.
Unfortunately, there are real reasons why the New GUI has been developed - and those reasons are not going to go away. The New GUI is here - to stay. Right now, comprehensive and objective criticism is needed, to convince Blogger to make it better - before they remove the Classic GUI altogether.
Both major and minor features, developed recently by other groups in Blogger, and by other divisions of Google, are integrated into the New GUI.
- Blogger Dynamic Templates, and the supporting separation of the Layout and Template menu options.
- Google+.
- Better Post Editor.
- Better support for non BlogSpot (aka "custom domain") publishing.
- Blogs accessed under Country Code TLD Aliases.
As long as Blogger has to maintain two GUI versions, they will have to move slower to keep both versions working. Staff has to be employed to both maintain both versions, and keep the various features in both versions working together. As long as there are two versions of the GUI, some staff, that should be improving the New GUI, is going to be busy supporting the Classic GUI.
One of the causes, of some New GUI problems, involves people switching back and forth between the two GUIs, to better use the features that they prefer. If you have observed problems with your blog recently
- Custom Domain Publishing.
- Post Editor paragraphing.
- Post Editor advance post scheduling.
Yet, there are features that are present in the Classic GUI, that need to be added to the New GUI, before substantial numbers of people can start using the New GUI. In order to identify those features, enough people have to start using the New GUI - and let Blogger know what features are missing, that need to be provided, immediately.
We have a problem rollup discussion, currently hosted in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, where we am actively soliciting comments from people who have tried the New Blogger GUI. Please keep your comments brief, polite, and on topic.
Just try to make your comments before it's too late - when The New Blogger Interface becomes The Blogger Interface.
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Comments
What you said, so far, is a good start. You don't have to "speak computer language" - just speak English (preferred).
Tell us, here or in the forum discussion, what bothers you.
Write concisely, politely, and on topic. The people who "speak computer language", given a complaint politely written in English, will read what you write.
Just remember the #1 rule.
"If you don't say it, it may not be said."
http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!category-topic/blogger/something-is-broken/siGTUCP-1G8
...but I'm not. It's horrible. So bad, the person (people) who developed it need to be relieved of their duties.
Thanks for your help over the years, I'll be moving on to a different service.
I hate the way that when I edit an older post, there's no easy way to get back to that (except by searching for it in the whole post list again). But that's just an interface feature that I don't like, not a show-stopping bug.
The matter of the pictures getting "turned around" is related to the EXIF data attached to the pictures, and how the post editor "Insert image" wizard handles the EXIF data.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/02/incorrect-orientation-of-photos.html
Put all the options in the old menu bar right at the top of every page! It is common sense design!!
Please don't confuse the New GUI and the Dynamic Templates.
This article discusses the New GUI, which won't have any effect on blog or template content.
The Dynamic Templates ("plain and boring") are offered by both the Classic GUI, and the New GUI. You're under no obligation to use a Dynamic Template - whether you use the Classic or New GUI.
Blogger seems to generally focus most of their initial design efforts on desktop computers with full GUI features. Mobile computers, with partial / non existent keyboards, small screens, low colour depth, and / or browsers without common add-ons, seem to be frequently overlooked in the beginning of many design efforts.
This is why I wrote this article. Unless people try using the New GUI, they won't find out what's missing, and won't tell Blogger what they have overlooked. Yet each missing feature guarantees that people will stay away from the New GUI until the last minute.
It's a double edged sword - and it will cut both the blog owners and Blogger.
I sympathise with you, I was on dial-up just 3 years ago - and it's a pain.
Unfortunately, as dial-up becomes less and less common, it's going to be less and less part of design for any new software. That's reality.
If you are part of the (less than) 1% left on dial-up, your numbers will shrink, and you will be more and more out of place, each year. And you'll find less online products will work for you, each year.
I highly recommend that you look for a better connectivity solution, soon.
I'm not a Bells & Whistles user. I just want it to work when I want it to work.
It doesn't.
You sound like you are seeing a variation of the "New GUI White Screen Of Death" - maybe you should be posting your report in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.