The Real Blogger Status

Under Classic Blogger, it was possible to transfer a blog from one administrative account to another, by adding the second account, then deleting the first . Incorrectly done, though, you could end up with a blog with no administrator, and no way to add an administrator. And another trouble ticket for Blogger to resolve. So Blogger changed the possibility, with Blogger Beta. Under Beta, you can add a second (or third, or ...) adminstrator, but you can't delete the first administrator . That takes care of the possibility of having no administrator. But it creates a second problem (which apparently Blogger doesn't find important) - you can end up with an account that has no need to administer a blog, but having been the first administrator, is stuck with that ability none the less . Having accepted that fact, one bright person came up with the idea OK, what if I delete the first account? A drastic, but seemingly effective way to resolve the problem. But today, it appears that pro...

Photos are an easy way to make your posts more interesting . Going one step further, we have moving photos, ie videos. Just Link To The Video, Hosted Externally Including a link to a video is as simple as including a link to a photo , hosted elsewhere. >> The Perfect Plumber &gt;&gt;<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay? docid=2638976382458360943&q=plumber">The Perfect Plumber</a> >> Top Or Embed The Video In The Post But look at my post in PChuck's Network: Don't Do It Yourself - If You Don't Think About What You're Doing Here we have a Shockwave Flash movie, Embedded in the web page . <embed style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf? docId=2638976382458360943&q=plumber"> </embed><br clear="left"><a href="http://video.google.c...

In one Microsoft help forum, some time ago, one wanta be helpful guy would answer dozens of help requests daily, by copying his entire library - 800+ lines of technical information - into each post. This should take care of you. If it doesn't, post back here with your questions. Now, read my entire compilation of experience. Your answer is in here - somewhere. Now that Blogger provides its easy to build online web sites, anybody can do the same using a blog. Blah blah blah. The answer is somewhere in my blog. >> http://myblog.blogspot.com Possibly this is done from ignorance. He doesn't know about addressing his posts. This is how spammers and trolls operate too. Want advice? Check out my web site - it's in there somewhere. Genuinely helpful folks, when they give advice, make their advice complete and relevant . The easiest way for you to do this is to link directly to the right article. To do that, your posts need to be individually addressable. Go to Sett...

When you register an address for a Blog*Spot blog, it's a pretty simple process. Setup a new blog, give it a Title, and a URL. The URL will be something like xxxxxxxx.blogspot.com, where "xxxxxxxx" must be unique. There is only one way to check for availability of any "xxxxxxxx", and only one way to register your choice for "xxxxxxxx", and make it unavailable for someone else. Enter the blog Title. Select an available URL. Select a template. Add a post to the new blog. Publish the new blog (this step only necessary for a Classic blog). When you publish your blog externally, it's a bit more complicated. Hire a service to host the blog / web site. Register your URL. Hire a service to provide you a directory (DNS) entry. You may hire a package deal, where all 3 components are provided by the same service, maybe even your ISP. You may get all 3 components for free, ie no actual hiring involved. But you will have to spend some ti...

This is a very popular error message, being seen recently. And by popular, I don't mean well liked, as in Chuck is a popular guy. I wish. I mean we are seeing it a lot, recently. Or it's being reported a lot. Or maybe, it's always around, but the other problems are down a lot, so this one is visible. The problem here is, it's used so much we don't know what it means. It could be anything like Your computer won't connect to it. We don't know where it is We know where it is, but we won't let you connect. In Microsoft Windows Networking, it might be a combination of the old Error 5 aka Access Denied and the Error 53 aka Name Not Found . Both of these are very popular (and again not well liked) errors in Windows. So how do we fix it? That's the bottom line. You start by identifying who's responsible for it. The message itself is coming from your computer. Start with a little basic troubleshooting . If the problem is just you connecting to ...

We've been seeing mixed experiences with the migration from Classic to Beta. Some folks are just closing their eyes and jumping - and landing softly with no problems. Others are finding it a bit of a rough landing. If you spent any amount of time adding custom components to your template, when you set the blog up originally, it's possible that the migration process won't easily convert your custom template. You might want to do a little planning, and experimentation, before you migrate. Most standard template objects can be created in the Page Layout editor. Try setting up a Google account, with a new Beta blog, using a template similar to yours. Add your custom features, and see how well it works for you. When you get the invitation to migrate your account, first make a test copy of your blog , using a copy of the template in your Classic blog. Then migrate your account, and convert the test blog first. If you like, you can easily copy the template from the Beta blo...

When you write posts in your blog, generally you'll want them to show the date / time when they were written. A blog is a journal, and sometimes you will want to insert posts with a different date. You may want a post to show a future date, to bring it to the top of the blog . You may want a post to show a past date, to reflect a past experience. Or maybe you want to make a new post, and keep it off the main page, as a separate section of the blog. Maybe you want all of the posts to be in forward chronological order, instead of (normal) reverse chronological order.