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Blogger Review

I have been blogging for the past 2-3 years. I have used blogger for www.pratbuzz.blogspot.com and bicyclingisfun.blogspot.com. I have also used the webs.com blog service for TJS kids(3yrs back). I have mainly used blogger.
Brief description on Blogger:
It is free blog publishing site developed by Pyra Labs and later bought by Google. To use this blogging service one must register with a Google account(ie. gmail account). It is free blog service provider. All the free blogs are given URL which is suffixed with the blogspot.com domain                 (eg: www.exampleblog.blogspot.com), You can also have custom domain(like www.blog.com) but the company charges for it. Every thing else other than AdSense is free.

The Interface:
Blogger has really good interface. When you open the Blogger window, you get a screen which looks like this:



This page is something like a home page. If you click on the New Blog button, you will be able to make a new blog(completely new not a new post). A user can hold only up to 100 blogs. If you click on the pencil like icon(orange colour), you will be taken to the text editor page where you can write your new post. This text editor is like a window like this:


Here there are a set of option like save as draft, publish, preview the post and close. The text editor is like a usual word processing software(ie. word, writer, etc.). Now lets move on to the rest. 

The main window where you actually get to make changes on your blog looks like this:


In this pic I am on the stats page. On the left side of this window, you see a set of options:


The following options are used to manage your blog. You can manage your posts, change the Layout and Tempelate, see your stats, etc.

I feel blogger is a very good blog publishing site. You can do a lot using blogger. Now I will just mention a few pros and cons on Blogger.

Pros:
  • Very good and easy to use UI.
  • A good graph representing the Stats.
  • Easy to change settings
  • Many Templates available.
  • There are many widgets or components to add in the blog.
  • Auto save every few seconds or minutes
Cons:
  • Very few fonts available.
  • Very difficult to use the HTML editing 
Rating:
I can rate Blogger 4.5 stars out of 5 stars.


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