This service has been down for a few hours and this probably shakes confidence of people in Cloud services. It seems they are removing posts temporarily, which were created after  7.37 AM PDT, 11th May 2011.

Here is a quote from Blogger Status:

To get Blogger back to normal, all posts since 7:37am PDT on Weds, 5/11 have been temporarily removed. We expect everything to be back to normal soon. Sorry for the delay.

A few months ago, Gmail outage had also caused concern with Google users. Stay tuned to this post and I will update it when blogger is available again.

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Obviously they are looking for simple solutions when it comes to tweaking layouts and Blogger has realized that by giving some new additions.

First they added the follow by email gadget which allows people to follow a blogspot blog via email. Now they are introducing a new layouts or views with endless scrolling. This seems to be borrowed for the new Google Image search layout.

Here is a video demo of Blogger Dynamic Views

Get Dynamic View on Blogger

• At the moment these views are not included as themes or as default views on Blogger templates.
• But any Blogger blog can be viewed in the new Dynamic views by just adding “/view” in front of the URL.
• For example, if your blogger blog is on “example.com” then to get the dynamic views just type in “example.com/view”.

Do you think this will prop up Blogger? I still feel that when it comes to blogging professionally, WordPress does a better job. Also when you write on Blogspot the content does stay on Google’s servers rather than, you hosting your own content which can be done with WordPress.

Do drop in your comments.

Source: Blogger Buzz

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Recently, you might have read about new features on Blogger for 2011. One of those new changes is in the form a new Follow by Email Gadget introduced on Blogger.

How to set up Follow by Email!

• Sign-in to your Blogger account and look up the Dashboard of your Blog.
• At the Dashboard, you should be able to see your usual design options (seem image below).

• Now Click on Add a Gadget and a pop-up window will appear.
• Select Follow by Email gadget and add it. This will show the gadget on your blog.

• On the blog it looks like a handy gadget for visitors to follow your blog updates with email.

Do try it out if you have a blogspot blog. Email subscription is quite useful for many personal blogs, as such blogs might not get updated all the time. Another point is, sometimes your friends might not remember your blog’s URL to visit it regularly. An update in the email will serve perfectly in this case.

Do drop in your comments.

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Blogger, is probably the most used blogging platform as most new bloggers end up starting on Blogger. WordPress is a great platform because of how much it can be customized. But it, does need a little technical knowledge and many casual bloggers usually prefer Blogger.

Below image is how the new Blogger Dashboard should look like!

Image Credit

Expected new features of Blogger

• The dashboard looks clean and better organised.
• It will also have new content discovery features which will help discover related content while reading a post.
• The design in Blogger.com will use Google Web Toolkit which is known to be used for creating browser applications.
• The real-time stats are pretty nifty with Blogger anyways, I think in the new redesign they might put more emphasis on real-time stats. After all this is where it probably has a bit of an edge over WordPress.

Change in Blogger’s focus?

I think there has been a change in focus for Blogger. It probably realises that it cannot be a platform like WordPress. WordPress is a used mainly when people want their website to look professional. Blogger has realised that it’s main clients are new or casual bloggers who just want to write things and share them with friends and family. With that in mind, Blogger might become more user-friendly.

Take a look at Blogger’s video on things to expect in 2011.

What do you think about Blogger’s new plans? Do you think these changes will excite you and will it threaten the incredible success of WordPress? Do drop in your comments.

Source: Google Blog

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Do you want your blog on Blogger get listed on Google Search? For that you first need to submit a Sitemap to Google through Google Webmaster Central Tool.

For those who don’t know what a sitemap really is, it is a file(.xml, etc.) containing all the links available on your website/blog which helps a Search Engine crawl your blog/website better and index it.

Here in this tutorial I will tell you How to Add your Blogger Sitemap to Google (even if you’re using Feed Burner).

How To Add Your Blog To Google Webmaster Tool

• Adding your blog to Google Webmaster Tool is very easy, all you have to do is log in to your Blogger Account. After logging in, the Blogger Dashboard will show up.
• Now scroll down the page and click on Webmaster Tools (Under ‘Other Stuff’).

• You will be redirected to Google Webmaster Tool Dashboard. There you’ll see a message asking you to add your blogs to Webmaster Tools, just select the sites you want to and click on Add.
• Once your blog has been added, Go To Webmaster Central Dashboard >> Click on your Site Name under ‘Sites’

• After clicking on your site’s name, you’ll then see a page similar to the image below:

• Now click on Sitemaps under Site Configuration.
• Click on Submit a Sitemap and you’ll will then be prompted to fill in your sitemap’s address. Now follow the steps given below.

If you are not using Feedburner:

Fill in the site map as atom.xml OR rss.xml and click on Submit.

If you are using Feedburner:

Fill in the sitemap as atom.xml?redirect=false and click on Submit.

After submitting your blog’s sitemap, wait for sometime and then reload the page. Now a green tick should appear in front of your sitemap URL (this means that your sitemap is valid), if it is replaced by a red cross then it means that you sitemap is not valid (Recheck the Sitemap URL again and then resubmit).

Now, all you have to do is wait for Google to index your blog’s links on Google Search. Yes, it will take some time to get your blog indexed on Google (maybe 2-5 days).

Did you find this tip useful? Do drop in your comments.

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New Features

• Zero changes requires on WordPress-side. Plugin handles everything automatically on WordPress.
• New configuration wizard help you setup redirection without much efforts.
• Supports importing from multiple Blogger.com blogs.
• Add supports for “rel=canonical” & “meta-refresh” tags on Blogger.com which will speed-up redirection. This will help search engine update their index faster.

Credits:

The plugin comes bundled with experience of Nitun, our BloggerToWP service head, who has handled more than 100 migrations this year. If you really like user-interface of this plugin, the credit goes to Rakshit, new developer at rtCamper with good aesthetic taste! Link: Blogger to WordPress Redirection Plugin

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According to Google there are over 350,000 words published with blogger platform every minute. It is pretty smart that Blogger is not trying to compete with WordPress but making itself a better platform for budding bloggers and writers who do not want to really look at blogging as a business.

Blogger a few months ago also introduced the option of creating pages and now improved ways to customize templates.

Here is a video which explains Blogger’s new features for template designer.

Have you been using Blogger templates lately? Do let us know your views about Blogger through your comments.

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Here’s the screenshot about how to get to blogger template designer.

Firstly open http://draft.blogger.com/

Blogger is taking feature requests.  post your request and promote other user request in  Google Moderator page.

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We all know about Google’s Blogger. The domains like ‘www.——-.blogspot.com’ are hosted with Blogger. People waste money on buying web space or hosting for images & videos in their websites and some uses the free hosting Service of many sites. But these sites do not provide you unlimited space for free!!! This is exactly what Blogger does.

Just follow these 12 simple steps.

1. Join Blogger.
2. Go to Posting.
3. Start a new blog post
4. Upload the Content in the post you want to host.
5. Don’t Publish it!
6. Save it as a draft.
7. Go to Posting>Edit Posts
8. Select ‘Edit’.
9. The posting area will be opened.
10. Your uploaded content will be there.
11. Right Click on it and select open in new tab or in new window!
12. Copy the link in the address bar and paste it in your site where you want to host it.

This way you can Enjoy Unlimited Image & Videos Hosting from Blogger!

Do write in your comment with your views on Blogger.

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Most of the blogger have there own dream towards there blog design but it is not possible to achieve as they dream because they may don’t have the knowledge about the Css and Html. But now there dream can be converted into themes without knowing the html and css with the help of Artisteer software. Yes, it’s true we can make theme with the artisteer.

Artisteer:

Artisteer is the first first and only Web designing product that can create a themes for you as you wish with the help of Artisteer we can create theme for most blogging platforms such as Joomla templates, Drupal themes, WordPress themes, DotNetNuke skins, and Blogger templates .

The above image is the screenshot of Artisteer software. It looks similar to the Microsoft word using the Artisteer software we don’t need any technical knowledge because the software is designed in such a way they any one can easily understand the function of this software.

This software contains 11 tabs. These tabs are the main working areas in the software They are  Ideas, Colors & Fonts , Layout , Background, Sheet, Header, Menu, Articles, Blocks, Buttons, Footer. We will explain the functions one by one.

Ideas:

Suggest Design: The suggest clicking on the “Suggest Design” option you will get theme suggestion that it goes on changing the themes what they have in the software. You won’t get unlimited number of themes but it can able to display some amount of themes what the software contains. In the above image you can see one theme is displaying after clicking on “Suggest theme” option the theme is changed to next theme. The Suggest Design option is used only for the purpose of the changing the theme.

Suggest Colors: The suggest color options goes on suggesting the color of the theme i.e in the first screen shot you may see the white+blue+gray color theme when you when on the suggest colors the theme color may changed to black+read+blue. When go on clicking the suggest colors may go on changing the color combination of the theme. It only changes the color combination of the theme but not theme as in Suggest Design option.

Suggest Fonts: The suggest fonts works same as suggest colors option but it changes only fonts not color.

Suggest Layout: The suggest Layout option goes on changing the layout design of the theme. For example the first image which contains the white theme with one sidebar if you click on suggest Layout property the layout of the theme is changed to some other layout i.e the sidebar may moved to left or two sidebar may comes in this way it goes on changing different property.

Suggest Background: The suggest background helps in changing the background color of the theme without making any changes in the theme it just changes only background color of the them making all the things constants.

Suggest Sheets: This works like a style sheet. It going on change some looking property.

Suggest Header: It changes the headers of the theme means it change background images of the header to another images with different sizes of images.

Suggest Menu: Changes the menu placement, structure and etc . This property deals with menu item.

Suggest Article Design: This goes on dealing with the title property, tags etc

Suggest Blocks: This changes the blocks design structure for example the sidebar blocks design pattern goes changing when you start clicking.

Suggest Buttons: If the theme contains any buttons then you can change the button appearance with the suggest button.

Suggest Footer: This property changes the footer display style.

This completes the Idea Tab. I think you will get some knowledge about Idea tab.

Colors & Fonts:

The above image of the colors and fonts tab. This tab gives the more option which is used in the Idea tab for more customization. You can see the same option which is available in the Idea tab but here it goes in depth option means you can find more property which is not displayed in Idea tab.

For example you can see the above image which is the property of “Color Themes” this option works same as Suggest Colors: option which is available in the Idea tab here is the we can easily choose the properties. All other option available in this tab gives more option so that we can easily customize our theme.

All the other tabs i.e layout, background etc which provide the same functions which are explained in the Idea tab but here they give more property or for every there they will displays the dropdown menu as showing in the color Themes option in the above image.

Official Videos:

Introduction to Artisteer

Working with Artisteer

Pros:

• Easily create themes for any blogging platform.
• Easy to use
• No need to have a technical knowledge
• professional looking theme can be created
• We can add personal images in the header what we see in most professional blogs

Cons:

• Slow: If you click to change the theme color then you may need to wait for 5 to 8 sec of time to change
• Cannot able to change the size of the sidebar or content area.
• You cannot able to apply any creativity to design. All are fixed you need to work within that boundary itself.

This software is only recommended for those peoples who don’t have the knowledge of theme creation. This software is not for the people are who the some what css and html language because those peoples can create there own theme with there own creativity.

Download Link: Artisteer software

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