Blogger (Also called blogspot) in draft has recently announced a new feature called Geotagging or location labels which enables you to add locations to each of your post through Google Maps. It is similar to time stamps of blogger posts which help to browse using specific date/month whereas Geotag give your readers a way to browse posts near a specific location.
As per official blog of Blogger in draft
We’ve just added geotagging to the new post editor on Blogger in draft. With geotagging, you can add a location to your each of your blog posts. Just as time stamps help readers find posts from a certain date or time, geotags give your readers a way to browse posts near a specific location.
Adding a geotag to your post is easy. Log into draft.blogger.com, open the post editor, and click the ‘add location’ link below the main text field.
Use the location editor to search, drag, click and zoom on a map to choose and save a location. Google says- “We’ll try to label the location you choose using our reverse geocoder, which looks up a name for a point on the map”. You can also edit the location name by clicking the blue location name text below the search field.
As said earlier, you can see clearly, this feature is integrated with Google Maps:
Originally posted 2008-12-19 08:01:45.
Tags: Blogger, geotagging, new feature
Many of the bloggers use Live Writer or some other offline blogging applications to work with there blogs. Most of the offline blogging tools lacks many features that when compared to a Word Processor. But what happend if you come to know that the most powerful word processor Mocrisoft Word can help you in this case. Microsoft word 2007 came with this option, that allows the user to publish the post made to the blog. If MS Word has this facility then why should we use an appilcation just for this purpose that too with little features.
Here’s how to go about it.
The first time you fire it up through – Office Button —> New —> Blog Post, MS Office asks you to setup an account. You can also get around to your account through the ‘Manage Account’ button on the menu ribbon. The Blog accounts box allows you to add, delete, and set passwords and picture options for your accounts.
If the blog API allows the direct upload of pictures, you can set the picture uploading options too or keep it at ‘none’.
With the account setup completed, writing and posting is a cinch. The intuitive Word interface gives you two tabs to work with your posts – Blog Post and Insert. These two tabs bring all the user friendliness of Office to structure your post. After finishing the post, one can either ‘Publish’ or ‘Publish as draft’.
Originally posted 2008-11-09 19:57:29.
Tags: Blogging, microsoft, MS Word 2007, offline blogging, Word
You may have noticed the NavBar on the top of every blogs in blogger. Till yesterdaythe blog author have only four choices of style for that NavBar.
Today Blogger announced two new style for NavBar to match the style of NavBar with your blog’s theme. “Transparent Light” and “Transparent Dark.” These new color schemes take advantage of the ability of modern browsers to render transparency (a technique known to web designers as “alpha blending”). This allows the navbar background to blend together with your blog’s background color and pattern. The “Transparent Light” color scheme has a semi-transparent white background, producing subtle pastel colors, while the background of “Transparent Dark” is a semi-transparent black that produces a shaded look.
In addition, Blogger simplified and slimmed down the look of all the navbars, so that they will be more likely to harmonize with the aesthetics of your blog.
To enable the Transparent Light or the Transparent Dark navbar, go to Layout | Page Elements, then click Edit next to the navbar widget:
Tags: Blogger, NavBar, New NavBar Styles, Transparent Style
