Becky's T-Blog

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Here comes the new blog, same as the old blog

For a couple of months now, Blogger has been enthusiastically informing me "your new version of Blogger is ready!", only to own up after I pressed the upgrade button that "er, actually it's not ready yet, you've got too many posts and comments and stuff... sorry... we got overexcited".

But, as Selina points out, Google have started sending men in dark suits around who "accidentally" knock ornaments on floor and suggest that bigger things might get damaged if I don't, upgrade. So I decided to give it another go.

And, by jiggery, it worked! Look, it's all new and shiny!!

Er... new back end. Front end might stay the same for the time being. I don't think I'll bother implementing the fancy-schmancy new features just yet. That new archive menu thingy looks ghastly.

Right... I'm off to assign a new ID to my Flickr account, before Yahoo break any more of my limbs.

Update - ooh look! I've got TAGS!!

Labels: cheese, fotheringay, metablogging, MRSA

Lynn Jones Shame there's no back-out option because that put me off upgrading for so long. As you say, most things seem okay. The new comments system seems to throw a few folk. The new template system seems a little less forgiving than the HTML one... but hey, it's a learning curve.

I was hoping they were going to add a big fat XML backup option. [sigh]

Alli' Cat' "fotheringay", bloody FOTHERINGAY???
B.T.W. the new vsn. seems to have retro-borked your comments and labled people as "anonymous"

Tiffany Did this mess up your home page? Eh?

You'd think it'd work on a Mac...

Becky Pah! Minor problems!

:-S

The "anonymous" thing is weird. Luckily it's limited only to the home page at the moment. The individual blog pages still show proper attibutions.

Stephanie Delacey "I was hoping they were going to add a big fat XML backup option."

Wordpress offer that and MySQL backup. It's much better than Blogger :-p

Becky Well, my blog entries are stored with blogger, which are then copied to my web space, which are then periodically copied to my hard drive, so you could say that I've got two back ups.

And anyway, the best blogging software in the world won't make a bad blog into a good blog. :-P

Samantha I love the new look Becky, i wish i knew how to get rid of half the rubbish on mine:)

Samantha xXx

Isobel who won't get fooled again?

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