I finally upgraded to the new version of Blogger.
I changed the font from Verdana to Trebuchet and put the post titles in the same red font as the blog title. The very cool thing for readers is the Archives, which are way down on the right hand side. You can use the arrows to expand the years and months -- and go directly to any post.
The only bad thing I can find so far is the re-emergence of the search bar at the top of the page. I really liked not having that.
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I noticed that this post is #2,004. :>)
Say...that archive list is pretty swank. I'm looking at Blogger's options - what did you choose to get that? Just "monthly?"
Just "monthly?"
Yeah. I checked:
Hierarchy
Show Post Titles
Monthly
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Also at the end of comments, there are links to the previous post or next post (if it exists).
Excellent! The best one yet, Jack!!
Great look, Redsock.
Jack, wow!! Brilliant. Positively brilliant.
I was going to try a poem, but now I'm too intimidated. :/
On the upgrade, I don't know what the big deal is about the Nav Bar. It's nothing. Who cares. Getting the cool archives is way worth it.
I have archive envy.
Jack: Can I post your poem as an actual post on 12/24-25?
L: My opinion on the search bar is that it's forced on me as opposed to before, when you could choose to have or not have it. However, I just did a search using it, and the search results come up in a much cooler way than before! Try it. So, now it's not that big a deal. An option to shut it off would still be cool, though.
Nice job, Jack. I will describe the height of tall things in relation to the height of the Coke bottles from here forward.
Jose's Keys 2 the Game also has a Manny-themed "'Twas the Night..."
http://keystothegame.blogspot.com/2006/12/twas-night.html
You guys are poets and you did not know that.
Actually I like the labels, it allows me to do the assign to certain categories, just think you coule make a Manny love label and every post about manny could easily be pulled up.
Hey, have you spell-checked yet? It's divine.
Jack, I was just talking about the new spell-check on the new blogger, asking if redsock had tried it yet. It's much cooler than before. That's all I was sayin'...
Sorry for the confusion.
And, well hi and happiness and health to you. Blogger won't let me switch...I wonder why. Maybe my Safari browser? If you know, I could use your help. But more importantly, have a great holiday season filled with happiness and MOST importantly, health. the most important thing. Peter from down here in warm, too warm with no snow Connecticut.
Pete, I must concur, it is way to hot in ct too enjoy the season to the fullest........So, I told my wife she couldn't turn the heat on...That went over well....Merry Christmas to all.......
Peter, that is exaclty what it is. Because of Blogger's new technology, most of which isn't applicable in Safari, you're going to have to switch over to Firefox to do that.
Btw, I have to say I am very pleased with what Google has done with Blogger. Although I didn't like having to discard my old template, the addition of labels made me forget about that.
I tried manual labels myself for a while using Delicious and it was hard work and I eventually abandoned the idea.
This and the re-done archives make me love Google even more.
P.S. Jack, that was an awesome poem. Redsock, please post that so I can come back to it in the future.
The old Blogger spell-check: Wait for team of helper elves to walk onto screen, go into huddle, decide which words may be spelled incorrectly, report back to you on each word individually, etc, etc.
The new: Your post remains exactly as is, only the possible culprits are highlighted. Put your mouse over one and some alternate spellings pop up. Very cool.
I'm also worried losing all my template changes, so I haven't "upgraded" the template, allowing for the cooler archiving. It says it saves your old template. Does anyone know if this s true and how easy it is to just go back to the old, or grab elements of it and put them in the new?
Oh, and 'sock, about a day before you mentioned this was your 2,004th post, I noticed I hit the MartyBarrett-hundred milestone on my blog, and thought about how 2,004 would be coming up relatively soon.
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