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Saturday, April 02, 2011

5 New Ways to View Blogger Blogs

The folks at Blogger just came out with an update to allow site visitors to be able to view blogger blogs in interesting new ways.

It uses the blog's RSS feed, so it's easy to implement, but from a blogger's perspective you loose are your custom content from your header, sidebars and footer.

It's interesting.

Some bloggers are prepared for this by placing additional content, like follow back links or ads, at the footer of each individual blog post.

Here are the details.

All about Dynamic Views for Readers:
Blogger currently offers five dynamic views for its public blogs. These views are only accessible if allowed for by the blog author.

Flipcard: available at [blogURL]/view/flipcard
Mosaic: available at [blogURL]/view/mosaic
Sidebar: available at [blogURL]/view/sidebar
Snapshot: available at [blogURL]/view/snapshot
Timeslide: available at [blogURL]/view/timeslide
Try these new viewing options out on this blog:

Blogger Flipcard View
Flipcard: available at http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/view/flipcard

Blogger Timelide View
Timeslide: available at http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/view/timeslide

Also:

Mosaic: available at http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/view/mosaic
Sidebar: available at http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/view/sidebar
Snapshot: available at http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/view/snapshot

Note:
These views require modern browsers such as Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome or Safari. Many elements of these views will not work should you have an older browser.

How to set it up on your Blogger blog, All about Dynamic Views for Authors.

Halley doesn't buy it.