Blogger though largest blogging platform was facing the complaints of being bland and monotonous for the very long time and to counter the accusations a few weeks ago Chang Kim, Product Manager at Blogger had promised to revamp its blogger with the following words :
“We’re kicking things off at SXSW by giving folks a sneak peek at our next-generation user interface. The new design is not only cleaner and more modern, but it also uses Google Web Toolkit, delivering the latest in web technology.”
Keeping its promise Google has finally introduced five new templates in Blogger and soon will be made available for use. On blogger Anil Sabharwal with the heading ‘Fresh new perspectives for your blog’ writes:
“Today we’re previewing five new dynamic templates in Blogger that you’ll soon be able to customize and use for your blog. These new views use the latest in web technology, including AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3, to deliver a host of benefits to you and your readers.”
These five animated blog templates i.e. Flipcard, Mosaic,Sidebar,Snapshot and Timeslide are very much attractive have been made keeping in consideration different types of bloggers. Whereas Sidebar is not much different from previous templates,Flipcard, Snapshot and the Mosaic templates as the names reflects are oriented mainly for photo congested blogs and Timeslide template will be loved by bloggers preferring a magazine look.
New features:
- Infinite Scrolling: read more posts without having to reload or click to a second page.
- New Layouts: Different views suited to different types of blogs.
- Speed: Download images as you view them, not all at once in advance.
- Interactivity: There are now more ways to experience and engage with blog content.
To try these views on your own blog, simply add “/view” to the end of the blog URL—for example, http://buzz.blogspot.com/view
So experience the exciting new Blogger templates and feel privileged.
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It will be nice if they mind to improve some seo in blogger interface not only templates
For your kind information all blogger templates are SEO optimized.
Nice to see some changes on blogger……I can only recommend everyone to move to their own hosting…
One of the Wordpress advantages
Thanks for sharing this article.
Impressive. Looks like I have to go back to blogger!
Ohhh though a Blogger user I was NOT aware of this. I’ll check them. Blogger is picking up really fast
I love the way blogger comes up with an innovative ideas to make blogger.com best in world and also give tight competition for the wordpress.
Great News shariq …I know personally many people who loves to blog using blogger as a blogging platform,Because it costs them zero investment.They prefer to custom their domain and using like a wordpress, no need to purchase any hosting…!
Wow, looks good. Time to switch to Blogger.com? Haha…