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image: geralt |
Step back and ask yourself, “How can I give my users what they want while getting what I want?”
I found this excellent advice in an unlikely place.
Blogger hints, hacks, and attitude
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image: geralt |
Step back and ask yourself, “How can I give my users what they want while getting what I want?”
I found this excellent advice in an unlikely place.
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michael b / flicker |
The PageList sidebar widget, and the older LinkList widget, each creates a list of links.
PageList, which Blogger calls "Pages" on its list of widgets, has one clear advantage.
LinkList won't automatically reformat as a horizontal list in the Responsive blog themes. PageList will.
A tabbed navigational widget is generally a very good thing to provide for your readers.
Some find PageList challenging to set up. The user interface is poor, so I've written a PageList guide.
You can upload images to Blogger, and video too (though you might be better off using YouTube).
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francis barraud |
But there is no provision in Blogger for hosting audio.
You can still host audio files at Drive, though it recently got harder to do. I've got a solution that formats a valid embed from Drive as a basic audio player:
If you used Live Writer or other third-party app to publish blog posts, you do not need me to tell you that the images in your posts have disappeared.
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franck injapan |
That may be the worst consequence of a recent restriction at Google Drive, but anyone who used Drive to embed anything on any web page probably needs to adapt to the new reality.
Here are some options for doing that.
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GARBIS MINASIAN / CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED |
A change at Google Drive has bolluxed images inserted into Blogger using tools like Live Writer.
The images no longer display on Blogger. Indeed, the change affected pretty much any use of Drive to host media for any websites. Check your embeds.
A (somewhat) similar problem afflicted the users of an app called BlogTouch last year.
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Happy new year!
Last spring I started offering subscribe-by-email for this blog—email notifications of new posts.
Unfortunately the service I chose for that is closing up shop this February.
(Who do they think they are, ending stuff like that? Google?)