Blogazines

The blogosphere is evolving! This post is about one such evolution which I happened to stumble upon today.

Most of today's blogs are of a traditional columnar layout with one main (or post) column and one or more sidebars. This layout is what you get in pretty much every post. However, the print industry, especially the magazines, have been making good use of the basic design principles such as balance, color and fonts, to add variety to individual articles.

Some very creative bloggers out there have drawn upon this idea of varied article layouts, on to the blog posts and the result is termed blogazines. Read more about this at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-death-of-the-blog-post/ and also some tips for creative blog post design at http://line25.com/articles/tips-for-designing-unique-and-attractive-blog-posts.

This is definitely not for the average blogger as it requires lot of design skills and also effort to finish each article layout from scratch. However, I found the idea very interesting and thought you would like it too.

Pages coming to Blogger!

Update: 2010 Feb 20
The pages feature has graduated from Blogger in Draft and now is a regular service.

It is just a little over a month ago that I wrote that we cannot have pages in Blogger. However, the test bed of Blogger, Blogger in Draft, has recently announced a pages feature in Blogger.

This, no doubt, will be an exciting news for most of the Blogger users out there. With pages one can easily create static pages such as About Us or Contact Us to hold information that don't change as often, but which needs to be easily accessed by visitors to a blog. This feature will be accompanied by a widget which helps to manage pages and display them easily either as a tabbed navigation bar or sidebar links.

It is still in beta stage and hopefully will be available in the primary Blogger service soon. You can try out the feature by logging in to draft.blogger.com.

Domain Transition Complete

This is to inform you that I have completed the domain name transition from bguide.blogspot.com to www.bloggerguide.lk.

The FeedBurner feeds should work without a problem, as I have not changed the feed address.

Thank you,
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