the perfect line: Blogger

The much awaited change to Blogger's look and feel is finally here! And it is sure to compete with the likes of Tumblr, Wordpress and Facebook.

In Blogger's blog post published just yesterday, they have officially announced Blogger's new interface that promises to "bring you a much improved and modernized Blogger". Built with the latest technology, say good bye to old, boring way of reading a blog and say hello to a whole new experience in interactive blogging! And the best part is, being a blogger, all your old blog posts get front page attention too!

The new blogger is faster, more streamline, and user friendly. A couple of clicks here and there and all your posts from way back then loads in front of your reader in an attractive way that compels him to read more and more of your blog.

How to Activate:
To activate, follow the navigation: Blogger Dashboard > Design > Template Designer > Templates and choose "Dynamic Templates" in this section. Click the "Apply to Blog" blog to make your changes effective.
Try it out now and see dynamic views working live on your blog. On any time that you wish to revert back to all your old template, you can do so by simply clicking on the link "Revert to previous template" that appears once any dynamic view has been made live on your site.

Layout Options:

You get to choose from seven amazing, completely attractive ways to "share your blog with the world", as Blogger would put.

Classic (Gmail): A modern twist on a traditional template, with infinite scrolling and images that load as you go

Flipcard (M loves M) - Your photos are tiled across the page and flip to reveal the post title

Magazine (Advanced Style) - A clean, elegant editorial style layout

Mosaic (Crosby’s Kitchen) - A mosaic mix of different sized images and text

Sidebar (Blogger Buzz Blog) - An email inbox-like view with a reading page for quick scrolling and browsing

Snapshot (Canelle et Vanille) - An interactive pinboard of your posts

Timeslide (The Bleary-Eyed Father) - A horizontal view of your posts by time period

-- quoted The Official Google Blog

Making Dynamic Views work for you:
These dynamic views will work for you if:
1. Your blog is public
2. You have enabled your blog for dynamic views
3. Your blog feeds are enabled
If any of these is not true, then you will not be able to activate dynamic views on your site.
Source

I'm really thrilled to use this new update to blogger for a number of different reasons most bloggers out there can well identify with. Template customization to these layouts are not available for now and Blogger promises this feature very soon. Once that's done, I'm sure there are many blogs who are eager to jump off to this next level of building readership on their sites.

Source Credits: Official Google Blog: Dynamic Views: seven new ways to share your blog with the world

{and am i not??}

I see that since you have landed here, it has GOT to be something that has to do with your silent wish of being on the next (Blogger's) Blogs of Note. Don't shy away, dear fellow blogger. We all want that honor now, don't we?

We spend so much time and effort on our blogs daily just to make it to the top, to get famous, to make money or any other reason you may have that made you venture into blogging. The lucky souls who open their Blogger one fine day just to know that they are on today's Blogs of Note must have been real good as kids whether they blog passionately or without passion. Sigh. Success takes a whole lot of effort, but it takes luck too. And then there is the big question:

How on Earth do they get chosen on Blogs of Note and I don't!??

Even though Blogger keeps maintaining it's all random, I don't quite believe it. There is more to this secret *looks clever* And I'm gonna share it with you... If only I had known, *Sigh!*

Only English blogs? How discriminating. I'm sure there must be so many non-English blogs out there who are doing a swell job in their own language. Why don't they get picked? Even if they do, why isn't it a common scene for them to get selected?

Creativity... crafts are a plus. I don't do crafts. But I *write*, duh. Isn't this the primary, very primary reason why we're blogging here?

What else? I have no clue... But wouldn't it be like an extended vacation from your blog if you could just wake up one fine morning and find yourself on that list? Your followers would increase, there would be a boost in comments and then of course, the monetizing, without having to do ANYTHING about it!! Vacation or what? :D

If any people from Blogger is reading this, we'd really appreciate a sneak peek into how and on what basis you choose your Blogs of Note. I think it would be great if you can share it with us someday 'cause we are such hard workers! ^_^

How do you see the Blogs of Note category? What's the best thing about it? What's the lamest thing, if you feel so, of having this categorizing at all? Do you feel it will be a boost in your site traffic? Is it luck? Is it a criteria? Let's find out and talk about it!

See ya!

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