Saturday, June 24, 2006

A Second Chance

Okay, my friend thirdmango has convinced me to give this blogspot thing a second chance. My first post here will be what Novel Concept suggested: a listing of all things that confuse me about this site. If you know of easy ways to reduce the stupidity of the site as a user, let me know.
1) There was no way to title individual posts, and that caused me to highly doubt the usefulness of this site. I mean, without a title, there is no post, in my opinion. However, thirdmango showed me that in the settings, I simply had to set the title option to yes. Well, why in the hell did blogspot assume I wouldn't want a title? The fact that that's the default really upsets me.
2) The fact that each user has more than one blog causes me to question the whole concept of a blog (not that I haven't been questioning that concept since day one...I mean, blogs are really silly things). My idea of a blog is one that ranges in its topics from harpooned seals to interesting spots on the skin, and to give an option to bloggers to make a blog dedicated to just one topic seems to go against what I think blogs should be.
3) This is probably the biggest problem, and if there's a way to fix it, please let me know. I want to be able to see my finished post on the actual page, and read the comments, etc. as if I was not signed in, and just looking at my blog page. However, if I click to look at it, I am then taken to my blog with no link to return to my home editing page area, and have to sign in again from the start page of the site. This is completely annoying. I know, I could open my blog in a separate window, and alternate windows, but that's just not the way I usually work. It seems like it would be very simple for this site to include a link back to the signed in page from the blog page, or give the option of signing in again from that page.
However, overall you're absolutely right. MySpace is much less cool in it's layout, and is much less appealing to a person who wants to read a blog. Who really wants to sign up for myspace with all the hassle it entails just to be able to read a blog. However, I really like the subscription options, and the ability it has to link you to a page dedicated to the person who writes the blog...it's much more personal than blogspot in that way. However, it is clear that MySpace is more about relationships between people, and since I hate that, I really should switch to blogspot. Thus, the second chance.

5 comments:

Thirdmango said...

I'm still pulling for you to switch to blogger. Though you still baffle me with your crazy problems. Now I do admit, the title thing was on for me as the norm, so I don't know why it turned it off for you, that one does confuse me. But once you get into it, me thinks you'll like blogger much more.

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Thirdmango said...

whoops, double posted. Anyways, I thought I'd also let you knopw as this is one of my favorite things about blogspot, is you can make it so any comments you recieve will show up in your email. To do this, in the screenw ith the tabs, you click on settings and then comments. Then at the bottom it has a place to put your email so you know when emails have come.

Yarjka said...

oooh thanx, b/c that was one of the things that I didn't like about it as well - I thought I'd have to keep checking back on my own to see if comments were left. Thank you, Mr. Thirdmango. What would I do without you?

Novel Concept said...

As for your third problem, all you have to do is click on the "blogger" symbol in the top in order to get back to your home editing page. If you want to edit a specific post, then you click on the little pencil that appears when you're signed in.

I'm not seeing where the problem is here.