Bloggeratto

Slackers Rejoice, if you have been reading about all those cool Blogger v3.0 hacks, but you kinda get frustraded with the idea of having to install them, well, this post is for you.

Both Ramani at Hackosphere and Hans at Beautiful Beta Decided to help you out with that breach so if you are willing to try or switch to blogger v3.0, you don´t star t from scratch.

So, let´s see the offerings very briefly:

HACKOSPHERE

From the man who started the new Blogger Hacking madness you can choose:

A)Minima
B)scribe (the one he uses)

With this built in hacks as quoted from Ramani Himself.

1. 3-column conversion with additional sidebar
2. Peekaboo posts with summary in main page
3. Peekaboo posts in label/archive pages
4. Multi-style Labels widget.
5. Del.icio.us and Digg hotlinks in post footer

Wich means, you get everything Ramani has released so far without breaking a sweat and free of charge, so go and chack that post:

Hacked templates with 3 columns, Peekaboo posts

BEAUTIFUL BETA

Hans decided to release a not official template called "underwater" that sports the
Super Peek-a-boo Hack and the comment grammatical fix.

If your most desired hack is having Peek-a-boo and you like blue things then this is the template for you.

New 3-column, fluid, peek-a-boo template

There you go, download away!!.

As you note this don´t carries the v3.0 prefix, so this works for both v2.0 and v3.0 my friends, interested?.

Thought so.

Well, this is the thing, the best Recent Comments we have in v2.0 are the N.T modification of the farrago comments, wich you can see in this blog and the last version from singpolyma Recent Comments.

Well, this is another option into the mix, and for v2.0 it is as good if not better that the two examples i just mentioned.

Why?, simple, the problem when converting a feed in any other method was that it is slow to update, this is also true for the Blogger v3.0 recent comments widget that can run natively in blogger, becuase the sole reason the set up for it was not adjusted with that in mind only.

Storago another clear advantage it has is that it will register every single recent comment in the blog and not only the one in your main page like in the case of the Farrago hack & the other variations like it.

And it also will allow you to have this extras with your Storago account:

1.-It Generates It´s Own Feed(atom)
2.-It Generates It´s Own Html Landing Page
3.-Your Blog Is Added To a Syndicated Page
(a la Blogs Of Note generating some extra traffic)

And the best of it is that is not only easy to use but FREE.

I would only have three requests to Jeff Day for a future upgrade:

1.-That if the Commenter Name could direct to the Blogger Profile of that commenter or it´s website when the info were available,
2.- That the display of the date & hour would be optional or could be added as title="date & hour" atribute that would show when hovered by the cursor instead of the comment description.
3.- Being able to choose how many comments it renders, a limit of at least 15 would be great.

That upgrades would make the service Perfect from all angles.

So, there you have it, if you want to give it a try, this is where you need to go:

Storago´s Recent Comments

-Via Ricardo Santos (who told me about it)

(yeah, they use a generated web 2.0 logo, the irony is not lost on me)

Well, My friend Efendi Kwok, found this very good looking Digg-like Blog Signature Generator that sure is a excellent replacement for that horrid looking Feedburner Headline animator(i am only knocking it´s very outdated late nineties looking sig not Feedburner), Aditya, sure would like this, he loves anything with a Digg style, but he is away at college so you and me can have it, and i so dearly recommend you to get one, it is a updatable generated gif so, it the easiest thing to use after you fill in the form.

The only extra thing it requires since it reloads when you update your blog is that you have a Gravatar account for your pic.

Have a look at Efendi Sig that is sporting a gravatar in it:



Here is mine without pic since i don´t have a Gravatar account yet (yeah, i know,another irony)



So, as you can all see this is a great sig, get one please so i don´t have to look at another of those feedburner sigs until they revamp them:

Blogsignatr.com

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Based on my Post and some other feedback, Hans upgraded his Super Peek-a-boo to solve the problem that presented when you closed a post that left you out of the post you closed.

Tha improvement has now reached the Blogger v2.0 version of his hack, and it is now usable to everyone, so you will also see Bloggeratto sporting it too very soon.

So, if you are still stuck or have decided to continue using Blogger v2.0 until it gets shutdown then now you know you can have it.

Non-Beta Super Peek-A-Boo Posts (improved)

For the crowd that is more into vertical tabs menus,and want to add their tags into oe in the same way, well, Hoctro also thought about that after his Tabbed Labels hack so if what you want is closer to this:



Well, then the only thing you need to do is visit this post of his:

Adding Vertical Tabs

1.-Go To Your Template



2.-Click on the link of the "Add A Page Element" Section In The Sidebar.



3.-Click On The Feed Page Element From the Page Elements Catalog



4.-Input Your General Comment Feed Into The Feed Start Form

(http://YourBlogName.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/Summary)



5.-Customize Your Feed Display And Save Changes



6.-Check Your Blog To See If The Changes Look As You Wanted



7.-Enjoy!

You can also check my v3.0 testblog


And if you want the recent post widget, just repeat the process and add your Post Feed:


(http://YourBlogName.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/Summary)

Ok, there you have it, i did this post becuase some of you asked for it by E-mail while aying you enjoyed the header image one, so i reiterate that if you want me to tackle something in particular, you only need to write me.

This another of those posts i holded until it was fully developed, in this Hoctro hack, he is using yahoo user interfase css grid paterns of from the Yahoo Library to fully develop a Layout changer for Blogger v3.0.

So the first post to visit is the introduction for the hack that in it´s title grasp the concept behind the motivation of doing the hack in the first place:

Yahoo! UI Library's Grid CSS + Beta Template = Powerful Visual Design Possibilities


(Archiving a automatic and very swift seven style layout changer)

From there and after introducing the hack, he turns his atention to javascript and in that post he makes realizations to hack v3.0 but also makes a note on this hack:

"JavaScript, You Complete me"



That resulted in a special input to put a layout change for a printer friendly version of a blog.

A time after, given that he seems really confident, he takes what he learned and point´s it to another direction, and explains how you can also use this to be able to add third,fourth and even fifth column to a blog.

A Follow-up Exercise on YUI CSS Grid



Quite a evolution for a hack in such a short time,so if you are inteested in having that kind of options, please give those post a look, because in treu Hoctro fashion, they even have a narrative.

This one is for the control freaks, you want to strip the item pages from what it´s in your main page?

Here is how to do it:

Feeds on front page only

Not much to say with such a straight Mod.

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You All Remeber Hoctro´s Tabbed Labels, and if not, click to refresh your memory.

well, let´s say you want to take it further, and have some sub labels since you are now using your Tabbed Labels as your Categories and Navigation, well now you can do it so, if you already have this:



You get a upgrade to it that looks like this:



So, if just from seeing it , you want to have a look?

Then go to this post to get the details:

Labels As Navigation Tabs


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I waited to post this becuase i wanted it to be more complete in development, and now it is more complete.

It all started on Ramani´s side, when he posted the first Peek-a-boo Post related hack that was just entering into what it had to be done.

That first hack, only expanded the post, but didn´t collapsed it, entered Hans and replied to that hack extending it

From there , the old problem with this kind of hacks was raised, what happens when you don´t need/want to have a "Read More" link to expand something?

Well, that it is where this post is finally headed.

Ramani and Hans talked about it, then they got inspired enough to do something about it so it was taken further and the result is what it follows:

By adding a span id in your post, now you can decide if you are going to need the summary or not for a new post, if you don´t use the span into the post, it will show up normal into the blog without sporting any kind of link or anything, just a clear post like this one

And if you add it, you will get the "Read More" link, and a "summary only" link so you can collapse that post after that post is opened making the important observation, that the "Read More" link is replaced with the "sumamary only making the post always look right.

And since Ramani and hans did a team-up, the code in both blogs is now the same unified code, for what hans named the Super Peek-a-boo Posts.

Ramani decided to update the original post that started the madness:

Expandable posts with Peekaboo view

And Hans did a special new post for it:

Super Peek-A-Boo Posts

So, you really should check those posts out, just to see what the Bleet! is capable of doing when working together.

However, i have decided to raise the bet even higher to take advantage of the work already done, Ramani, Hans,i love this new hack, but now i must wonder if a recent idea i have is possible to be added in either of this two versions of it:

A)The newest post in the blog is always displayed as open if peek-a-boo is enabled in it, and when you open other blog post the one opened will close, and a scroll leveler will make sure you don´t lose sight of where you are in the main after closing a post.

B)the same as above but without having the newest post opened by default, just the rest of the funtionality proposed in A.

So, tell me what do you think?.

As with the now very recognizable Feed Icon thanks to the push from the Mozilla Corporation and Now Microsoft that also adopted it, the feed icon has not problems to become the frontal standard for a feed, be it Atom or RSS, that cannot be said for OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language), that has passed for a series of banners and now is finally triying to push its own icon so it can be standarized and get into the mainstream.

Inspired by www.Feedicons.com, Liquid Orb Media, Inc. launched a website for the new icon called The OPML Project that carries a Creative Commons Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License. for the icon.

The icon was developed by Liquid Orb Media, Inc. while working with Chris Pirillo

So, if you have a any OPML to offer in your Blogger Blog, please support this new Icon if you find it likeable,Soon i will also integrate to this offering OPML in Bloggeratto.

And if you don´t know about OPML and want to know more about it just go to www.OPML.org



www.OPMLicons.com

*Update: clarificated by Ken Rossi in the comments.

For a lot of Blogger V2.0 users commenting in v3.0 blogs (and viceverza) remained filled with bugs like:

1.-Double Posting or Triple Posting

(this bug is almost a classic in v2.0)

2.-Error Log

(saying you were not logged even if you were)

3.-Ghost Posting

(comment posting seemed normal until you checked the blog and the comment were nowhere to be seen)

4.-Error message

(a error message appeared and the nothng happened)

But Pete at Blogger Buzz let us know while in a Drunken Pirate state that this has been Fixed.

So, what do you expect to leave a comment in Bloggeratto?.

Comment Away.

So you want a stylish Recent Comments Widget for your sidebar uh?, well, i would have provided you a easy option already if the comment feeds in Blogger v3.0 worked for everyone, but don´t worry, my friend Ricardo Santos Got you covered with a Hack for that if you are up to it with some determination.

The Hack, consist on the old v2.0 hack of using a second blog and gmail to get a comment feed to process, and then changes the last step and uses a custom script designed for the task made by Greg Hill so it gives out a better result that you can check at Ricardos blog.

Recent comments on blogger

Tweak your label tabs

Linklists don't open in a new window

How to Fix the Comment Count Grammar of Blogger Beta without using javascript

Now, this is a genius hack, that don´t seems as too much just by looking at it, but it really is, and you will get the idea as soon as you read more about it.

Hoctro decided to create a table contents, wich is simply put, a index guide list that shows your posts and how they are categorized:



So, if you are up to some work, then click and have a look:

Table of contents

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I really like when someone comes up with a navigational hack, because is the kind of thing that really help a blog to get more reach with a reader when this idea is well executed.

Hoctro has cooked up one hack that i knew as The Key Chain, in here it´s called the Breadcrumbs Line and is based on the same simple premise of having a line telling you in what part of a blog archive you are whenever you are in a item page with the track to backwards from there.





Adding Breadcrumbs to the Item Page

You thought you were not going to read more about hans?, not a chance , eh has been keeping busy with a lot of tweaking and road testing Blogger v3.0

I had not done a post about it, because hans was in a hard road where he encountered a nasty error that made him to REMADE his entire blog because of it, but he is back in full force so let´s check what he has been up to:

From latest to oldest

1.-Giraffe Template



I guess that while rebuilding his blog, hans had sometime to play and the result is a new template with a giraffe theme.

So, if anyone likes it too, just ask hans for it:

Giraffe Template

2.-Gramatical Fix For Comments.

It is not amazing that some of the most simple mistakes in Blogger v2.0 are still present in Blogger v3.0?

And one in the list is still the gramatical error in the comments marker, that stays in plural from the let go.

Well, if in v2.0 there were like five ways to correct it, i can easily expect the same quantity of hacks if not more in v3.0.

And hans present the first tweaks into the matter:

A) Working around the "1 comments" bug

B) More hacking into the comments line

3.-Message Panel

Hans decided that the best way for him to keep updated the readers of his blog if something goes wrong is with a message panel just below the header, and if you want the same thing as him, you only need to check his post about it:

Adding a Message Board to your Blog



So, if you like the what you read, just pay Hans a visit.

This was one of the first Blogger v2.0 hacks and now it gets it´s time into the new blogger via Ramani´s Hackosphere.

This will provide your posts in the main with the first lines on them before showing a Read More.. link that directs to the item page:

Expandable post summaries with Beta

This is not only a how to add a image to your header as the title says, this is the easiest and the slacker way to do it.

If you are a regular reader you must be surprised seeing me to tackle such a simple chore, but i got this asked 15 times already, and as everyone that is with Blogger from the start knows, this is #1 question in any blogger forum/group since Blogger v1.0!!!

Now, people not only want to know how to do this, they want the easiest,faster and most straight forward way to do it, and i will resume it with some quotes from the people who asked me to do a post about it:

"i want to be able to do it in less than five minutes"

"i don´t want to mess with code, i just want to copy and paste where i must without having to write anything myself"

"i don´t even want to make a custom header, i just want to get a image into the frame of the header, you know what i mean?"

*yes, those are ACTUAL quotes*

So, i was like, oook then, and after ruling out my own regular solution from inside the code editor, i decided to take Gaby De Wilde word on it

(hey,i am a slacker too)

So, this the 6 step and in one minute way to add a header image to your blog once you are in your dashboard and have a image link you can use:

1.-Go to your layout settings

2.-Click in the Add Page Element of your layout footer

3.-Choose HTML/JavaScript from The list of page elements

4.-Type this code into it as shown in the picture:



(The height in the top parameter is the one that can be used for the minima based templates)

5.-Modify it with your links.

6.-Click Save Changes

----YOU ARE DONE----

Check the test blog that i set for it, and i did add it just like i wanted in less than a minute.

Testblog

(i put the same image this blog has so it resizes nicely along with the blog)

Now you only have to check your blog, and there will be a image in your header, of course this one minute deal don´t include further editing so you get it right as you want it.

The 3 Things you need know to edit the image in your further editing are:

1.The height it has inside the header is controlled with the top:57px parameter, the higher the number is, the lower in the page the image will appear and viceverza.

2.-If you want the frame of your header to be bigger, just edit the description in the blog so it gets bigger, or remove it so it gets smaller.

3.-If you want the image to blend with the background (if it has color) of yor blog, then you must edit the image first so it does blend.

--There--

That is everything you need to know, as a Slacker myself, i know how important is the "I want it now" sentiment really is, so there you go, you wanted it fast, easy and working as less as possible for it and i give you just that.

And remember that if you need anything, the ony thing you need to get it is ask me for it (but i don´t borrow money ok?), just send me a e-mail, leave a comment in any post you want or catch me when i am online in the Bloggeratto Chat and tell me about it.

Given the nature of the new Blogger Labels that serve as both tags and labels, why not make them serve as section in the same way we now use some posts to serve as sections. the main difference here is that you will be using the label system to do that and there will be no post page linked directly in the process.

And from there use that to sectionize your blog, or simple highlight what you think are the most important categories in your blog.

Is not that cool?. yeah it is.



Well, it is exactly what Hoctro did with the help of a pro designed tabs, that anyone can have access too, i like the execution of it a lot. so i will be doing my own version of it, and i will try to extend it further later.

in the meantime, check them out:

Turning Labels into Tabs

In a very funny note Blogger Buzz directs our atention to Flickr, yeah, you know, that site owned by yahoo?..

Something i would find odd if i didn´t knew that they are directing you to it becuase that is the only way to have direct photo posting to Blogger v3.0, since the new Picasa upgrade is still not ready, i don´t know how much of their plans have changed, but seeing Blogger pushing Flickr, not only makes me laugh, it makes me worry that Google is really taking it´s time (slow) with all their new upgrades.

Anyway here it is the relevant screenshot:



And the funniest thing after pushing another company service since their own don´t supports the new blogger:

Remember, never enter your Google Account login information on a website not owned by Google!

Ah, those guys at Blogger, such a funny fellas.

And here comes ramani again, if you have already seen the other posts about the Label Index Display then you must really even for the sake of completetion check out this really cool hack that uses one of my favorite things: Peek-A-Boo Funtionality.

And if you want to have a peek(pun intended) about what it is about so you feel more inclined to make the jump:



There, i tell you it was cool.

Peek-A-Boo view of posts in label pages

Stephen is all into the new blogger, and while going at it with such determination that makes us look like if were taking it easy, he has now completed his first Blogger v3.0 Template with a proper testblog to preview it while he gives some pointers that Blogger should note on to makes us the work easier.

And if that was not enough he is giving away that template for all you to grab.

Take a look:

First Blogger BETA Template

At the moment of writing this, i still have on and in use my Meebo account, with it have great experiences, i have talked with over 50 people so far, from all over the world, even to my surprise when i just installed it in my blog i even had the pleasure to chat with one othe Meebome competitors, in other ocassion with someone i was just buzzing, and lots of my readers that after having a chat with them, they have turned into good friends.

Meebome still has a long way to be as good as it can me, more now than ever where there is the direc threat of three new start up looking for the same niche and offering other kind of experiences.

However, with Release 18 and Release 19 now it not only more stable but faster, lighter and finally color customizable so it can blend better into your blog, like you can check if you are in the main or in here if the code is allowed in your reader.




So, if you still don´t give it a chance, you reall should, and i can even say i vouch for it that i can change even the more stubborn of your opinions of it.

And if you see me online, don´t be a stranger and send a message.

Meebome!

If you remember the label main index display from Ramani, well, you will like to know that now you can have more post in that display with a little tweak:


How to control the number of posts in label pages

Simple, but still great stuff.

You all know i love everything feed related, i have a flock reader with 3000+ feeds.. so if someone follows feeds, is me.

Colored me susprised when i read that the oldman (yeah, Phydeaux3) actually took some time off the porch and chugging beers to write a post about how he found the Feeds for the labels.

And it seems blogger as i told everyone, is really keeping lots of things to be released into the open for later. and in true blogger fashion, if there is one thig they keep shy about even if they are available is Feeds, they kept shut about the Blogger RSS feed, that up to now, is not even officially released...

What i can see from Phydeux3 post is that the new Blogger v3.0 master Feed control is really more robust and dynamic that the one we have in v2.0 and this is good to know, there are alot of things that can and will come up from there.

But why you don´t say hi to the old man, hell you can even call him Poppa Phy3, and tell him i say hi.

Feeds for Labels in Beta Blogger

Back a month ago there were a huge lot of problems with the photo updating and there was a real mini outcry about in in forums and as Blogger lets us now in the feedback they were reciving.

But now, Blogger Buzz is telling us that they are so confident that the situation is almost solved that they even did a post about it...yeah...

And belive me, they would not do an entire post if they were not sure of it.

I in the other hand don´t use Blogger photos becuase i can´t have control over them, as i said earlier the only solution would be to have photo blogger settings, and please don´t even begin with the happy photoblogging wishing. if Blogger would have released a specially adjusted template for photologs, then you can get to say that...otherwise, hapy snaping was enough...

Besides that,it is good to know that the photos are Ok now.

The new blood keeps pouring into the bloggerosphere, and this time is the turn for hoctro from vietnam that makes a great entrance into the fold with some worthwhile posts:

1.-Archived or Labeled Listing Shown As Titles Only

Where using the previous work by Ramani
he did his own version where he offers a bulletized display removing the dates from the titles too.



2.-Define a Function and Calling It - the Blogger Way

As a good geek, hoctro, can´t help but to mess with blogger even about the details and in it show us a little of it.

As soon as I complete my first hack, I start thinking about refactoring it. Anything that is repeated again and again, is of course a good candidate for refactoring.

3.-Using "Link List" Page Element As Thumbnail Picture List

And to end with a bang he shows you a lookilitary(yeah i am making words again, stop me)hack, so you can add photos lists to your blog in a simple manner.



So, as you see, Hoctro is in for a threat, and so we are all, so why don´t we hang around a little in Hoctro´s Place

The thing left for me to say is: welcome to the Bloggerosphere..

After two days i took to be able to take some rest (i run my biz 12hrs a day from monday to saturday) here i am catching up with the latest news and observations.

So, Stephen from Singpolyma to let us know about his advance through Blogger v3.0:

Since the Blogger-released Widget Code Help and Johan's Post, progress on BETA conversion has been much easier. Check my BETA Blog and you'll find that I have most of the old post functionality and look done, with the following exceptions:

BETA Upgrades Progress

Phydeaux3 just did a new post were he graciously offers the code for his customizable Label Cloud and a very detailed tutorial so you can put one in your work, that looks quite cool i may add:



It even has a preventive noscript added so in case someone has JS turned off it displays a regular Label List

Code for Beta Blogger Label Cloud

And if something goes wrong with it you can blame me, or so Phydeaux3 says.

A known Issues Blog that was just blogged about by Blogger Buzz that everyone should check on.

What do you thought i was talking about?.....Hehehe

In recent even with Ramani going Hackserker (get it, you know,like...ah forget it), Phydeaux3 tries to catch up and he is doing with style bringing you a more proper looking and multi colored, customizable Label Cloud!:



yep, just go for it:

Beta and Label Clouds

Remember what i said about Ramani hotlinks code being reusable?, well Vivek Sanghi From Vivek Sanghi: Stubborn Fanatic (good to know he also has a sense of humor) did just that so you can have more options to use:



That you can find here:

Get socially bookmarked!

Welcome Aboard Vivek.

As you may figure out, i visit, lots and lots of blogs a day (from 30 to 100), and i must say that this was the most common thing i saw in Blogger v3.0 blogs during the day:



41 times in 34 blogs, so, i must ask, any of you in v3.0 suffering it too lately?

Gold fever in the Blogger V3.0 mines and Ramani has it!

He returned to the Labels Playground and the next thing you know is that he pops up with a label Switcher for all of you to use as follows:

Styles



Displays

1.- List



2.- Menu



3.- Tag Cloud



Seems pretty cool don´t it?

for full details, just go here:

Multi-style labels widget for Blogger Beta

It is sad, but it had to happen,Phydeaux3 i s just letting know to everyone that D2B is going to go the way of the dodo.

And if you don´t know what D2B is, let me tell you it was the direct inspiration behind
The ABC Index from Aditya and that both are of the best Blogger v2.0 Hacks ever.

But don, take it from me and go read the story from the man himself:

d2b and Beta Part 2

There Are 5 Things i have been wondering about blogger v3.0 from over a week after seeing some things in it, so in case pete is watching, or just to amuse myself and all of you, i will share you the thoughts:

I.-Blogger Profiles:

What is going to happen to the Blogger Profile System?, so far since it was introduced it has been pretty much worthless, Because:

1.-It´s not customizable, and i don´t mean they lets us chage the branded look (that would be awesome,but unrealistic)

I mean about being able to add fields to it,run code(video, audio,flash, in short terms, being able to compose out profiles like we should be able to do it since this is 2006!?

2.- having a good databse display to it, and some social tools would be even better, this would be good not only to the users but to google itself.

II.-Audioblogger

Since Blogger v2.0 started with the Google reboot, Audioblogger was turned into a official feature that so far has worked like if it were a 100% third party system even if we must consider that it carries the blogger and Google brand.

A week ago, someone(i think Agent99) noted that Audioblogger was down and off for several days, this made me remember it(since i really had forgotten about it a bit) and i was wondering if Blogger had any plans to finally offer native Audioblogging to the masses (being able to load from your pc) since it always has been a call to post thing.

I hope they could offer it that way, or at least updating the damn thing would be cool to have.

III.-Vlogger?

I will not tell how i got this rumor, but is Blogger planing something with video blogging as well?, maybe a Google Video integration?, if the rumor is true, that sure would help Google to gain a lot of ground on the video war where they are losing to myspace and youtube, along having yahoo catching up so fast, and with the looming in the horizon threat where MS is going to enter into the game(oh yeah, early next year).

IV.-Blogger Photos

One of the most frustrating things in Blogger, must be handling Photos in it, it is there a possibilty of Blogger gaining it´s own Photo Settings into the blogs?, or please tell me they are planning to integrate it with the upcoming Picasa Albums upgrade?

V.-MoBlogger

IT sure seems like Blogger has Moblogging Plans, but what i wonder is when we can expect it to be upgraded?, the sms was ditched or holded, there has not been a Moblogger upgrade since the recent one that has to do with the sonyericsson deal, but when will be able to see a general Moblogger upgrade?

Well, those were the things i was thinking and fiddling on lately, i will update this post later if i get some answers or any kind of update to make.

I have decided that any Good Development Commentary from someone inside "The B", is worth a post here, so:

Just at the Hackosphere, Pete Hopkins Dropped By the Hackosphre to answer some questions by Ramani and here is the summary of what it was said:

(along with my own commentary of course)

1.- About Why Blogger v3.0 Backlins Don´t Work Properly:

I saw your post show up as a backlink on my Buzz post about the login box, so it's not all broken. I know that the super-restrictive robots.txt file that was (accidenally) in place early on played a bit of havoc w/ blog search engines (Google's included) that's still sorting out. Blog search indexing issues in general are something that's on our radar.

"search indexing being something prioritary to them should really comes as natural, and if there is one thing i always been happy with, is Blog indexing in the google search engine"

2.- About the handling of Asociated Post Data to Labels Code:

2. Sounds like a feature request! This may come up in the future.

"ok, fair enough, it seems it didn´t came up to them when they were coding them i guess, about that may, lets not get that optimistic"

3.-About Why General Comments Feeds Don´t Work
In Blogger v3.0

3. I've seen a few bug fixes on this front go by, and they'll be out soon. This is one of the "it's not you, it's us" things, which is why support couldn't help you.

Really?, it´s Blogger Fault?, i could neeeever would have imagined...good to know, but that is just one of the things that should have been ok from the let go, "beta" or no "beta". another reason why support cannot truly help anyone (up to this moment)is because it is a computer using a re-selector to generate answers on pre-designed responses,what am talking about?, just go here, so you can understand and also have a good laugh

So, there you go, straight from the B-side.

Now,don´t get me wrong, i like pete because he seems like a cool guy (even if he has such a sappy taste for music and movies) , i also like his blog (he should post more often to it)

I also would like to add that he sure is making Blogger look more responsive to users than ever before, and he was the one who suddenly went into the open and started to offering some light into blogger v3.0 development, where in pre v3.0 we,were completely left at darkness.

Another thing, he says the team is truly aware of the blog that talk about v3.0 right now, but i still must wonder, who watches the watchmen? :P


*Yep, this Blog has lot of cynic, sarcastic, unforgiving humor, thanks for noting it*

Once Again, Ramani goes for the gold, and he bring some of it.

So, if you were figuring out how you could add some hotlinks to you Blogger v3.0, here it is one way to do so:

Delicuous and Digg Hotlinks to your Beta Blog

This time around, it not only just a Mod, it is a completely reusable one, that means you can grab it and change it to your means using the same very code and steps behind it.

No, it´s not a Blogger feature, it´s a name, and yeah, the name is Hans.

Hans just decided recently that since he like how stuff works, he would/should open a blog dedicated to learn how Blogger v3.0 works , and that is what this blog is about in a very focused way, looking at the details behind it with a pretty fresh view on it, wich is why it is worth buzzing, he can offer stuff that i know will be useful to the Bloggerosphere, so Hans, the stage is your pal, rock on, i know you can do it.

So far here are the interesting posts that deserve to be buzzed:

1.- Editor Bugs

Noting some common bugs in the v3.0 Html Editor that you should be aware off

2.- Changing The Color Scheme

With some useful Tips to use when you are playing with your Template

3.- Adding a second sidebar to your template

His own Mod and tutorial so you too can add a second Sidebar and get the 3 column configuration that lots of Blogger users love.

And as beauty is in the eye of the beholder,hans even dared to name his blog Beautiful Beta.

So,lets be polite and say hello.

For those times when you need a screenshot for a reviewin your blog and don´t want to have to take the photo youserlf and upload it to your favorite photo service and then link it back.

With WebShotsPro.com you only have to either search for the screenshot or add it to the database and then link back to make use of it.

That should be a good tool for those that do a lot of website reviews, however i must make the observation that it is better to use with commercial websites, becuase it uses IE6 engineand that unfortunately it has a timer set for the screenshot to be taken.

I was able to notice it while looking at the screenshot from this very blog:

Bloggeratto Screenshot

So, i do hope there would be a way for the service to improve on that, other than that,it´s all set to use.

In not so breaking but interesting news, Pete from Blogger Buzz stopped by Ramani´s Hackosphere to clarify that a change in the labels code was to comply to the rel-tag microformat convention.

Said change in the code as follows..

From:

http://Bloggeratto.blogspot.com/search?label=xxx

To:

http://Bloggeratto.blogspot.com/search/label/xxx

This will alow that Technorati and others can "see" the tags in Blogger v3.0 and also facilitates coming Tag related developments, so, lets see what it turns out of it.

The Blogger Holy grail in terms of templates has always been the 3 Column Template, and in this case Ramani decided to do something about its,so he is not only giving a great tutorial on how to convert your Official Blogger v3.0 Template if you already have some customization so you can add a third column to it.

But with the goodness of his Blogger heart (heh), he is giving out 3 already converted v3.0 3-column templates for you to download and use away.

3-Columns Templates For Blogger Beta

So, Don´t be rude and grab that free stuff away from him.

A few days back when Blogger decided to finally activate the Html Editor it seems they didn´t had the time to complete the Documentation on the code, so they only released a part of it.

But now, the Documentation is pretty much complete and ready to be read and use.

Blogger v3.0 Help Pages

Now, you will not find any info on porting your template to v3.0 from v2.0, so that will be the Bleet part of the job.

Recently i posted a look into the code from Scott at Banana Stew where he guided it directly from the template.

But now i bring your atention to a new look into the Code of Blogger v3.0 from the view of Johan Sundström At Ecmanaut who take a completely academic and theoric road into it (wich is a good thing, belive me) and in true Johan fashion offers nothing but a rock solid post about it:

Blogger Beta Templates

So, if you are up for it, it is a must read.

it´s not everyday that you get a actual apology from Blogger,but that is what the last post in Blogger buzz is, and such event deserves a post in Bloggeratto, also because is about something i was really angry about:

The Merged Blogger Sign In

I guess the feedback was on fire about how frustrating that login box was.

Lets Remember the frustrating factors it had, just for the sake of it don´t it?

1.-The password manager would not auto-fill you pre saved passwords
2.-The password manager would auto-fill your google account in the box.
3.-If you had gmail open and you entered the google accout you were logged off
4.-If were in gmail and opened blogger, blogger will redirect you to Blogger v3.0
5.-Sometimes your account suddenly failed to load at all (either Gmail or Blogger)

But gladly noted,this is the past:



And this is the Now and the Inmediate Future:

I.-

A) Choosing Blogger v2.0:



B) Choosing Blogger v3.0:



And now that i think of it,the only place where you could see Blogger giving one word apologies were in Blogger Status and even there, it is something rare...

This new Blogger really seems that is going to be more responsive to users, so there you have it, please give it another chance.

Blogger

There i was checking my gmail when saw that Ramani who as you know and if you don´t runs that fine Blog called "Hackosphere" so if you don´t have visited him, you really should, i mean he is from the Bleet!...anyway, i said hello to him and then he just said "i was just about to write you about my new hack", he did, so here i am telling all of you about it.

This new hack, is a extension from his Drop Down Labels hack.

The drive to do it so quickly was that Ramani was in a roll today and becuase someone gave him direct feedback to about it, that someone was my friend Ricardo Santos that pointed the suggestion to Ramani about having the labels to just display a Index and not the entire post as it normaly does so it don´t gets to cumbersome to manage when you get to have lots of posts in one label.

This makes the label to pull a Retro and then displaying the index just like two of the best v2.0 hacks that are Aditya own ABC Index or the Original In Main Index Hack done by Phydeaux3 called D2B



Now, the only left to do in this post is that you follow this link:

New hack to improve your label/search pages