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Blogger now features a true preview

For years, bloggers cursed the lack of a real preview function in Blogger, one of the most popular blog platforms. After you wrote a blogpost, the ‘old’ preview button used to bring up a pop-up screen which gave a ‘kinda’ preview of your post, which did not take into account most styling options you had [...]

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Blogger now features a template designer

Last night, Blogger announced their online template designer.

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Automatic mobile themes for your blogs

More and more people browse blogs from their mobile devices. While you can view any website from your iPhone or Blackberry, the pages will appear with a very small font, and the whole thing will look very cramped, unless if the website supports a mobile theme. Only then, the site will appear suitable for easy [...]

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Selfhosting or not: Hackers

In a previous post, part of a series about selecting the right blog platform, I urged you to think if you want to selfhost your blog or not. I revisited the subject, stressing the fact that when you choose for selfhosting, you should be aware of the many things bloghosting platforms like Blogger would do [...]

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Selecting a blog platform – Part 1: A critical choice

Alright! You recognized your organisation can benefit from a blog and you know what you will blog about. The next step is critical: Choosing your blog platform, the “software” to edit, publish and host your blog. Choosing the right blog platform is critical. You might set out as “let me give this a decent try”, [...]

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Selecting a blog platform – Part 2: Selfhost or not?

After reading Part 1 in this series, you will agree with me that selecting the right blog platform, the software you will use to create and maintain your blog, is critical. Which of the four platforms we are considering will it be? WordPress, Tumblr, Typepad – Movable Type or Blogger? Your right selection will be [...]

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Selecting a blog platform – Part 3: Functionality

Part 1 of this series showed how critical it is to choose the blog platform suited for your needs, before you start. in Part 2, we covered one of the first questions you need to ask yourself: will I selfhost my blog or not? Today, we’re covering a topic which is just as critical in [...]

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Selecting a blog platform – Part 4: Ease-of-use and support

In this series, we looked at the criticality of choosing the right blog platform and how the different blog platforms differ in functionality and in the way they host the blogs. Now, let’s concentrate more on you, the blogger. Do you want to concentrate on writing posts, without spending too much time on fiddling with [...]

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Selecting a blog platform – Part 5: Layout, design and navigation

So far, we have covered some basic questions before you can make a solid choice which blog platform to use: selfhosting your blog or not, what functionality you demand, and what ease of use and support you can expect. With this triple pack, you can more or less decide on a blog software. Unless…, if [...]

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Selecting a blog platform – Part 6: Customizability

To make a solid choice which blog platform to use, we looked at factors like selfhosting your blog or not, what functionality you demand, ease of use and support as well as design, layout and navigation features. Some bloggers are very particular about their tools, and want it just the way they like it, in [...]

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Selecting a blog platform – Part 7: The bottom line

Making the choice which blog platform to use? Ask yourself: “Do I want to selfhost my blog or not?”, “What functionality do I want?”, “How important are ease of use and support, design, layout and navigation features and customizability for me?”… Looking at all of these factors, here are my bottom line recommendations:

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