blogger have started to let you convert your normall blogger blogs into the new "blogger beta" style of blog -
this has many advantages namely: tags* (used on technorati and other sites, and used for searching on certain topics), much quicker publishing, neater archive display, integrate other site's RSS feed onto your blog easily, private blogs etc etc.
however, there are some dis-advantages: you need a google account to logon. plus it's a bit of an unknown as to how well it will migrate over the current design, although I suspect it shouldn't cause any problems.
I've been using blogger beta for this: The Ricoh Caplio R5 Blog and it's been great!
So to summarise: I think blogger beta is quite good, but we need to make sure everyone is happy to move over to blogger beta with this site and has a working google account before we can move over. alternatively we could simply not move over, as what we have now is currently working.
*example tags for this post would be: blogger, beta, tags, etc
Update: Turns out we can't upgrade this blog yet as this kind of blog can't be converted yet: "A very large blog. (More than a couple thousand posts + comments.)"
3 comments:
everything should stay the same, all comments, all posts etc.
Looks like our blog is too big to do it anyway.
Is the only real difference that Google is trying to take over the world? and so when someone gets hold of my google password, they will have a huge amount of information.. everything i've ever put into writely, and everything i've put into blogger.. which is all of use to advertisers even without my password.
It looks like phil is right - change is good
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