September 17, 2006
I screwed up big time in my Blogger beta testing. I thought I had layouts all figured out, but at one point it was so bad that my blog started generating "404 Not Found" errors. Conclusion: Blogger Beta's layouts system sucks. It'd be awesome if someone was kind enough to write an easy-to-understand tutorial, but as it stands, trying to customize it is just not worth it.
Heck, I wouldn't even have bothered with layouts if I knew that the labels worked with the old templating system. I was surprised when I reverted back to my old template and I saw that the labels that I tried out were still there! Notice that I went back through all my blog entries and retroactively labeled all 50+ of them. Whew.
What I could've used from the new layouts is the widget that lists all the labels I've used. I haven't figured out a hack yet but for now, you can head over to the RubeTube on Technorati to explore my tags/labels; it's there on the upper-left. (It's not updated in real-time though)
Heck, I wouldn't even have bothered with layouts if I knew that the labels worked with the old templating system. I was surprised when I reverted back to my old template and I saw that the labels that I tried out were still there! Notice that I went back through all my blog entries and retroactively labeled all 50+ of them. Whew.
What I could've used from the new layouts is the widget that lists all the labels I've used. I haven't figured out a hack yet but for now, you can head over to the RubeTube on Technorati to explore my tags/labels; it's there on the upper-left. (It's not updated in real-time though)
Labels: Blogger Beta, rant, RubeTube, Technorati
