Monday, April 30, 2007

That which is imagined need never be lost

Rather than lose my previous blog, I am adding a link to it.

1 comment:

Bonnie S. Calhoun said...

Hi Kitty, I do am observing the day of silence on the blog. But to answer your question on my How Can I blog....is not a short answer.

Unfortunately 90% of the problems people are experiencing with new Blogger are actually on the bloggers end! They have all been addressed copiously, but people don't look for those threads.

To give you a short run down of a "few" of the problems.

1.) Migrating a blog before you get an invitation to migrate. If the server the blogger is on is not setup for the migrating, it causes all kind of problems, including missing blogs.

2.) The username that you sign the blog up with in New Blogger is the username FOREVER. It cannot be changes. When people change email addresses, (and some people change them like they change their underware) then they get confused as to which name belongs on which blog on which account, the result, no blogs on the dashboard, blogs that can't be accessed etc.

3.)New Blogger is XHTML, old Blogger was transitional HTML. That means that in old Blogger, anybody could write about any piece of code they wanted, and Blogger would take it. Now...wonder of wonders...you actuallly have to know what your doing to write code and have it accepted.

4.)New BLogger is a secure server (https) that means there are a myriad of security settings on your personal computer that need to be changed to "Allow" new Blogger into your home world. Compounding that is the fact that different Browsers need different settings, and so does your firewall, and internet security etc.

5.) And my all time favorite is people who go in and change template HTML, having no concept of what they are doing...and then yelling that their template is broke, or the blog disappeared.

This is the short list...the very short list of problems caused by bloggers.

I hope it answers some of your questions. Feel free to delete this, but I didn't have any other way to respond to your question!