Comments on: Blogger Embraces Change, Makes BlogSpot Beautiful Again (Themes And Design)

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By: Tia

Tia — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:55:06 +0000

When was BlogSpot beautiful?

Just kidding! This is great stuff. I personally use WP but I occasionally launch a blog on blogspot for various short term reasons and this is good to know. Prior to this, though, I have found free blogspot templates that are pretty sophisticated, but like you said, they require some technical expertise or at least a certain comfort level with code.

Still, if they haven’t made a change to add pages, and have better control over navigation, this change isn’t going to help all that much. It’s not just about pretty layouts. Users need to be able to control the anatomy of the blog as well.
This is cool news. Thanks.

By: TXCHLInstructor

TXCHLInstructor — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:13:11 +0000

Since I run my own host, that is not an issue. Even if the folks that I partner with decided they didn’t want my business, I could be on a new host in a matter of hours, since I keep my own backups. Seriously, running your own hosting service is not terribly expensive, and you can actually make back some or all of the cost by reselling (mine is hostpci.com — it’s not really cost-competitive, unless you want 100% uptime and no overselling). Most of my income from that source comes from websites that I do for other folks, and sell as a package. And, being of a Libertarian frame of mind, I am not inclined to shut down somebody because they are “politically incorrect”, although I don’t host sexually-oriented sites (you can get hosting for that in plenty of other places).

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:25:25 +0000

Good point, but one could easily make the same argument for any host (as they can kill your blog just as quickly).

By: TXCHLInstructor

TXCHLInstructor — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:05:52 +0000

I strongly prefer to keep my blog on a host that I control. If, for *any* reason, the uber-liberal folks at Google decide they don’t like your blog, it’s toast. And there won’t be anything you can do about it. So it doesn’t really matter how pretty they make Blogger/Blogspot.