Google Data » Anil Sabharwal https://googledata.org Everything Google: News, Products, Services, Content, Culture Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:59:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 Fresh new perspectives for your blog https://googledata.org/uncategorized/fresh-new-perspectives-for-your-blog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fresh-new-perspectives-for-your-blog https://googledata.org/uncategorized/fresh-new-perspectives-for-your-blog/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:03:00 +0000 https://googledata.org/?guid=591ed86682ba7f797752fc81ba5cc06f 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:
  • 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


Click on any of these links to take the new dynamic views for a spin on a few of our favorite blogs: Flipcard, Mosaic, Sidebar, Snapshot and Timeslide.

Flipcard

Snapshot

Mosaic
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. These new views are available on all public Blogger blogs with feeds fully enabled—to learn more, including how to disable these views for your blog if you wish, please see our help center article.

We’re previewing these templates early on so we can incorporate your feedback for a wider launch soon. At that time you’ll be able to customize these templates and select one for your blog. Please let us know what you think!

Antin Harasymiv, Software Engineer, Blogger
]]> https://googledata.org/uncategorized/fresh-new-perspectives-for-your-blog/feed/ 0 The Quick Brown Fox https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/the-quick-brown-fox/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-quick-brown-fox https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/the-quick-brown-fox/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:09:00 +0000 Web Fonts to Blogger in Draft. Today we’re excited to not only launch Web Fonts to ALL Blogger users, but also announce we’ve added an additional 35 fonts to the mix, for a grand total of 77 fonts!

Henry Ford once said “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it’s black.” When it comes to the Internet and fonts, sometimes this hits pretty close to home: “You can use any font you want so long as it’s Arial.” With the introduction of Web Fonts, this is now a far cry from the truth!

Web Fonts, brought to you by our good friends at Google Fonts, let you spice up and further personalize your blog. Just have a look at what we’ve done with the post titles of this blog! And for those of you interested in fonts for non-latin alphabets such as Cyrillic, Greek and Khmer, we have those too!


Ready to give it a try for yourself? Simply go into the Advanced tab of the Blogger Template Designer for your blog, select the type of text you’d like to change (Post Title, Blog Title, etc.) and click on any of the new Web Fonts for a preview. Don’t worry, nothing will change on your blog until you select “Apply to Blog”, and this means you can play around with all of the fonts and only make the switch when you’re ready.


For the full list of fonts and more information, please take a look at the Web Fonts page in our Help Center.

Go ahead. Jump over that lazy dog!
]]> https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/the-quick-brown-fox/feed/ 0 Blogger Dubbed the Most Reliable Blogging Service on the Web https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/blogger-dubbed-the-most-reliable-blogging-service-on-the-web/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blogger-dubbed-the-most-reliable-blogging-service-on-the-web https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/blogger-dubbed-the-most-reliable-blogging-service-on-the-web/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:12:00 +0000
‘Tis the season to be jolly, and we certainly have reason to celebrate after the folks at Royal Pingdom conducted an independent study of blogging services on the Web and found that Blogger was without question the most reliable. In fact, Blogger was the only service of all those tested that delivered 100% uptime. You can read the full article here.

Our favorite quote:
“Since Blogger was the only service with zero downtime overall, we skipped the chart here. We hope you don’t mind. It simply wouldn’t have been very interesting.”
When it comes to reliability, we certainly like being uninteresting!
]]> https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/blogger-dubbed-the-most-reliable-blogging-service-on-the-web/feed/ 0 Take Control of Your Site Feed https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/take-control-of-your-site-feed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=take-control-of-your-site-feed https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/take-control-of-your-site-feed/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:30:00 +0000
Feeds are a great way to reach a broader audience and keep your loyal readers up-to-date. In fact, it’s not uncommon for blogs to have more than a quarter of their traffic come from feed readers.

The challenge with feeds is that it’s never been possible to control exactly how much content is delivered. Up until now, the options have been “Short” and “Full”. Short produces a feed that contains around the first 400 characters of the post, with HTML and images removed. Full produces a feed that contains everything in the post, including HTML and images. But what about those instances where you want to give your users a taste—an image or two with some introductory text—and then have them visit your blog to see the full post? Well today we’ve launched a third option that lets you do just that using Jump Breaks.

To enable this feature, simply go to the Settings page for your blog, click on Site Feed, and then next to “Allow Blog Feeds”, change the drop-down value to “Until Jump Break”.


That’s it! Next time you write a post and use a jump break, anyone reading the feed will get all the content, including images and HTML formatting, up until the jump break (if there’s no jump break, the feed will contain everything). If readers want to see the full post, they can click the “read more” link and they’ll be directed to your blog. This means you have full control over your feed.  For example, want to include an image for your recipe but not the whole recipe? No problem! Put the image and part of the recipe before the jump break, and that’s all the feed readers will see.

Enjoy!
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