The Real Blogger Status

When you setup your Google Custom Domain , the instruction for the DNS addressing setup is rather basic. Add one or more "A" and / or "CNAME" records. Point "www.mydomain.com", and / or "mydomain.com", to "ghs.google.com", or to a series of Google servers. Unfortunately, all DNS hosts don't provide multiple "A" referrals / "CNAME" referral to "ghs.google.com"; some only allow for a conventional "A" referral to a single, fixed IP address. These instructions are most often seen when you purchase the domain directly from a third party registrar, and your registrar sets up the domain itself - since when you use "Buy a domain", all of this detail is done for you.

Background images make the blog so much more colourful than plain old solid colour backgrounds. A background image Is not clickable. Can be seen where no foreground content is present. Look at using a background image under the text title, for instance. Note that this is the opposite from replacing the text in the title with a picture . If you put a picture in the title, no background will be visible, unless you intentionally make the picture too small for the title space, or use a transparent .gif file for an image.

If you're going to setup a Google Custom Domain, you have to start with DNS properly setup . In most cases, you will want the "www" alias, as well as the rest of the domain, to refer to Google. This requires you to properly use the setup procedures provided by your DNS Host, as a complement to the facilities provided by Google. NOTE: This case study shows how a Custom Domain was setup, in the early days. A much more comprehensive tutorial can be found in Your Blog, Custom Domains, And Righteous Solutions . You may examine the illustrations below, for background, but the correct configuration is described in the latter article. This case study uses my church website, martinezumc.org, with DNS service provided by GoDaddy . So, I logged in to the GoDaddy control panel, and followed the Google GoDaddy instructions (instructions for other hosting services are also in that document). Steps 1 - 4 were on target. So, I document below Steps 5 - 7 of the instructions, whic...

Any time you examine a blog - either yours or a friends or strangers - you look at the content, and maybe the template. The content is obvious - you read what the blog has to say. Then you look at the template, and at the accessories and decorations. How about the links? Any blog of any size has links - usually within the blog, and outside the blog. Maybe links to other blogs produced by the same person, to the close friends of that person, and to acquaintances and strangers. OMG, Chuck, that could take days. I don't have time for that nonsense. But that nonsense can be a key to finding a contact to a friend or stranger, or a problem in your own blog. And maybe you do have time, if you automate your research. IT-Mate provides a free useful product - vURL Desktop Edition - that walks through any blog or website, extracts each link, and presents you with an alphabetised and normalised list of all links found. You can look at the list presented to you, and find other links wit...

The Blogosphere currently has a real problem - active hacking, and obnoxious unwanted commercial "adult" content, is in 1 out of every 3 blogs being published. Do some "Next Blog" surfing , and see what I mean. I wrote, originally, about this problem a little over a month ago . I published an update last Friday , indicating that the problem isn't going away, and Blogger hasn't done anything to solve it. Yesterday, the problem changed direction. This is what we had a month ago (and last week). That's a dead web site. http://aff-friend-finderwvghpcb.blogspot.com/ Note the blog name, in the URL. aff-friend-finderwvghpcb aff-friend-finder <== Name wvghpcb <== Suffix Possibly to make their blog setup faster or more scalable, the sploggers stopped using dictionary words in the blog names. Here's a (slightly altered) entry taken from the Recently Updated Blogs list, during the morning of 10/15/2007. That's not the actual URL, as I do not li...

This is a welcome improvement from the old ability to remove our own administrative ability , without knowing. Let's see if it works. See an improvement? "grant admin privileges" is way more obvious than "admin". So click on the link, and get a warning. So, we'll select "Grant Admin Privileges". Now, we have 2 administrators. Click on the link again. And now, the second and the key warning. Here, I hope that the default selection is "Cancel". Having observed the warning, we'll select "Revoke Admin Privileges". And now, we have one administrator again. A welcome improvement here, folks. >> Top

The Blogosphere currently has a real problem - active hacking, and obnoxious unwanted commercial "adult" content, is in 1 out of every 3 blogs being published. Do some "Next Blog" surfing, and see what I mean. A little over 1 month ago , I went Next Blog surfing, and today, I repeated my experience. And the figures haven't changed. Today, I surfed through 20 blogs, 2 of them were financial scams, and 6 were obnoxious "adult" content. I should add, "adult" content of low quality. Total crap. And of the "adult" content, one variant seen frequently has been found to contain active hacking attempts. Until Blogger fixes the problem, I will encourage all concerned Bloggers to remove the Navbar from your blogs . And let Blogger know that you're concerned about the problem - use both the Blogger Contact Form , and the Blogger Wishlist . >> Forum thread links: bX-*00065 >> Copy this tag: bX-*00065 >> Top