Some of you might have noticed that Blogger now has an option which is in the Beta, or testing phase, and to which all blogs will soon be moved. You can, if you want, move there now, but be aware that all the bugs have not yet been ironed out. You also need to open a Google account, which seems fairly easy to do.
One of the problems with this version of Blogger seems to be a problem with posting comments. If you have tried posting comments to somebody's blog, and you find yourself unable to do so, and you haven't switched to Beta, there's a pretty good chance the other person has.
There are other issues here, but rather than go into them here, I will let you read about it from the opening page , from which you can take the tour of Blogger in Beta.
Speaking of links, I'd like to add a word of thanks to The Widows Son, curator of the blogs The Burning Taper and Sacred Fems, for turning me on to a little thing known as Tinyurl. If you have a problem like me with long assed links, give this link a visit. You can turn an excruciatingly long link into one with 24 characters or less, even if it is a more than one huindred character long link mixed with letters, numbers, and symbols.
You will be given a link to drag and drop to your browsers toolbar. Once you do this, all you have to do is go to the web-site on the page you want to link to, go up top the toolbar, click on the link for the Tinyurl that you dragged and dropped toyour toolbar, and you will automatically be given a "tiny url." It's a real time saver and nerve soother.
As for Blogger Beta, I might give it a whirl, though I don't really see the point, as all will soon be moved there. Just the same, it might be a good idea to go ahead and avail yourself of a Google account, and a G-Mail account when they become availiable. Right now the latter is by invitation only. Still, having as much of this at the ready as possible might head off any unforseen problems that might arise from the switch.
There are always unforeseen problems in life, and gods know that is certainly true of Blogger.
6 comments:
I got it, everything's cool. Let me know if you got mine. Sometimes Yahoo is slow delivering and sometimes they even get lost in transit somehow. So let me know.
Thanks for the review. Definitely get that Gmail account when you can. They're huge! You can use them for back-up of data offsite. Very easy! IT's a little different than what you're used to in other web based e-mail services, but I think you'll like it.
Hey Autogato, how about hooking me up with an invitation, if you can. Or does that have to come from Google management?
Sure. the Yahoo address that comes across w/ your blog comments?
Done. Sent. Invited.
Thanks, Autogato, I got it and signed up. Looks like it will be cool. It ought to be better than YaHell anyway.
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