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After months of waiting, Blogger today released their new template library. Instead of a static library, though, they chose to provide an array of combinable choices . Multiple, exciting styles. A huge library of theme organised backgrounds, each with an associated colour palette. A selection of layouts, with symmetrical combinations of 2, 3, and 4 columns with and without split sidebars in both left and right variations Adjustable column widths. An updated Fonts and Colors GUI interface , with selections for new template objects like Pages Index gadgets. From the dashboard or navbar , select "Design". From " Page Elements ", then select "Template Designer" - and check out the possibilities. What we have, now, is an almost infinite variety of possibilities , which should keep many bloggers happily occupied for days. If the Template Designer for your blog lacks options, you can even add some wizards to the Designer menu . As with every new ...

Recently, we've seen an occasional question about mysteriously changed post editor selections. Where did my options toolbar go? or Why do I now see the new post editor? Right now, as part of the deployment of the new post editor , there are 3 selections, in Settings - Basic - Global Settings - Select post editor . Updated editor Old editor Hide compose mode If you make this change under one blog, you'll find it true for all of your blogs. I've also noted, under some circumstances, that when you accept membership in someone else's blog, and the other person was using a different post editor selection, the other person's selection will now be yours, globally. The next time that you accept membership in a blog, check your post editor setting. If the owner of the blog was using a different setting, your setting may have changed. >> Top

Apparently as part of its 10 year anniversary celebration , Blogger has quietly released the (previously) Draft Post Editor into Production (Orange) Blogger. If you look at Global Settings under Settings - Basic, you'll see the (former) setting for "Compose Mode" now replaced by "Select post editor". Here, you can select "Updated editor", or view an overview . Or, you can leave "Old editor" (Compose mode enabled), or "Hide compose mode", selected - depending upon your current setting. Selecting "Updated editor" gives you the former Draft Blogger equivalent of Post Editor, now available for all Blogger blogs in Production Blogger. There are interesting changes in "Post Options". No "Backlinks" options. Real scheduled post settings ("Post date and time"). Edit HTML ("Convert line breaks" per post) settings. Display HTML settings. And two major omissions. Spell Checking is not inclu...

Bloggers everywhere are now enjoying the new look of the redesigned Blogger Dashboard, and the improved buttons in Post Editor. With every change though, such as a redesign or improved functionality, comes problems. This change is no exception. I notice that there's a new dashboard but I also noticed that when I try to put my cursor over the "publish" button it turns into a line and the button doesn't work unless I rest it below the publish button. or The button for NEW POST, PUBLISH POST & SAVE NOW are NOT working? or I can't upgrade my template. There's no "UPGRADE YOUR TEMPLATE" button ! Whenever Blogger makes a script change, like this one (that's visible), or similar ones that you can't see immediately, things will stop working. Sometimes, it will be because of old code, cached on your computer , interfering with their new code. Other times, it may be because of differences in the browser that you are using. And in many cases, ...

Many bloggers who depend upon comments as an essential part of their posts have never been content with comments in a separate window - popup or not. Occasionally, you see the anxious query Does anyone know how to make all comments appear directly under the post? Until now, the answer to that question has always been Not under native Blogger, unfortunately. With New Blogger June/July 2008, that limitation is no more. Now, you have a third option for displaying comments. Embedded below post Note that you may, or may not, see my test comment below this post . If you're viewing posts in archive view , or in main page view , you'll still see the comment link, and have to click on that. A page with multiple posts, and comments interspersed between the posts, would be too hard to read. If you're viewing this individual post , inline comments "Embedded below post" make sense. >> Top

Scheduling a post, to publish in the future, is not at all a difficult task. Before you hit the "Publish Post" button, simply select the "Post Options" link just above that button, and change the date and / or time to some time in the future. Then, hit the button. If it takes effect, when you hit the button, instead of getting the Your blog post published successfully! screen, you'll see the "Edit Posts" menu, with your new post listed, but shown with the " scheduled " notation besides the date / time stamp. After the indicated date / time, refresh the "Edit Posts" screen, and you'll see that the post is now published. Or refresh the front page of the blog, and the newest post, just published, should be at the top. With dynamic publishing of the blog, you (or another blog reader) will have to do something in the way of reading the blog, to trigger the publishing. If you're like me, and like to publish posts with a ...