phil ringnalda

Is conservative ”brown” a proper color for the otherwise futuristic blogger movement? I doubt it. I find the new Blogger interface to be a ”deprovement” rather than an ”improvement” both in terms of its hideous briefcase library design and its impractical usage. Who in gods name wants to use tabs? It takes more time to do almost everything because of the ceaseless unnecessary clicking now required from page to page rather than having the ”one page does it all” format of the original Blogger. For example, to get back to the inappropriately named ”Dashboard” you have move your mouse clear up to a distant link placed way up in the right hand corner of the page. Ridiculous! It is an interface for beginners. It is hard to believe this botched job was designed by professionals.

My further comments to the new Blogger interface as well as Blogger Support’s answer to my critique are found at http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/lawpundit.htm

I personally have nothing against those who want to use the new interface, but what bothers me about Blogger Support’s answer – symptomatic of internet companies these days – is that what some users want is simply ignored.

What counts for me on the blogger posting interface is SPEED, EFFICIENCY and SIMPLICITY. The Old Blogger interface had it, the new one has NONE of that, in spite of all the big names who allegedly worked on this update to the contrary.

Here are three cheers for the old Pyra programmers.

WONDERING:

Can a blog be made more discussion-friendly by

(1) having Comments sections read from MOST recent to oldest, instead of the other way around? So that
(a) people don’t have to read ALL the comments over and over again chronologically before getting to the new ones?
(b)people can see ”New” comments FIRST?

(2) having a way to inform readers that there ARE new comments to read?

I would like to start a blog that is an Active discussion, more like a message board, really, but with the ”cache’” of a blog. If you see my point.

Does anyone know a way of doing that? thanks. I find it odd and perhaps significant in some way I don’t understand that the ”hot” thing has gone from message boards (which are now ”icky”, BUT have a really communal, egalitarian feel) to blogs, which feel more sophisticated but are really, in their ”log”-ishness, more like islands of narcissism!

thanks.

Liz Margoshes,Ph.D.
Psychologist
On usenet since 1990,
echonyc.com host since 1991.

Liz,

1. New comments first only works if you are visiting a comment thread twice. The first time I read a post and click that comment link I want to see what other people have been saying.

2. Cookies, Javascript and HaloScan for comments – probably possibly in MT as well. I’ve implemented this on my site.

Your final point… is this very post/comment thread what you are looking for?

I can’t seem to find any template that would suit our site. :(

1.) How do I add my own gradient background into a template (similar to the ”thisaway” background done in orange)?

2.) How do I change the colors of the various boxes in the No. 897 or No. 565 design templates? Also can I make those gradient backgrounds??

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