News!! Novel Blogger Interface Vs Existing Help-Articles
This article explains the approach I'm taking to converting the advice inwards this weblog to the novel Blogger interface which was released inwards August 2011.
And it asks for ideas near the best way to depict where to discovery things inwards the novel tool.
This week, they've announced that this novel tool is available inwards "production" blogger. ("Production" anything is geek-ese for the existent version of it.)
As alongside lots of Google's novel interfaces, in that location is
The new-look Blogger agency that the advice inwards these blogs is (potentially) out-of-date, at to the lowest degree for people who are using the novel interface. And really soon, in that location volition last novel Blogger-users who've never seen the one-time interface as well as are actually confused when individual says "go to the dashboard, select Design > Page Elements as well as ..." - because they won't fifty-fifty know that the psyche Blogger covert used to last called the Dashboard.
So we've all got a challenge of updating our advice to reverberate how things are done inwards new-Blogger. Personally, I'm non thence delighted near this: I've spent most of my Blogger-HAT fourth dimension inwards the terminal 3 months re-writing every unmarried article to apply consistent formatting (Blogger-HAT started out every bit a house to popular off on all my working notes for myself) as well as lineament standards to each article. I volition last updating my articles again, but inwards the meantime ...
Previously, the links to practice things within Blogger were labelled alongside text. We could say
"go to the Dashboard, select Edit Profile, discovery Identify as well as ...", or fifty-fifty "Dashboard > Edit Profile > Identify". And people who couldn't come across where the ascendency was could simply travel their Browser's assist tool to search for the correct place.
But now, modest pictures (ie icons) are used instead.
So nosotros demand to discovery a way to depict the novel features which is
Right now, I'm non certain how practice this, as well as would honey to take heed any ideas you lot bring near how I tin strength out depict the tools availabe from Blogger's screens - delight travel the comments below to allow me know how you lot would similar to come across things described.
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And it asks for ideas near the best way to depict where to discovery things inwards the novel tool.
A novel user-interface for Blog-writers
working on a novel look for the tool that nosotros travel to write our blogs. Since then, we've been able to travel this tool, inwards diverse forms inwards Blogger-in-Draft.This week, they've announced that this novel tool is available inwards "production" blogger. ("Production" anything is geek-ese for the existent version of it.)
As alongside lots of Google's novel interfaces, in that location is
- A push on the one-time version to popular off to the novel one, and
- A push on the novel version to popular off dorsum to the one-time one, and
New front-end, one-time help-articles
As good every bit the Blogger-help-forum, in that location are many other blogs (including this one) near "how to practice things inwards Blogger". I've described these before, as well as also made the Google Custom Search of the best (IMHO) ones.The new-look Blogger agency that the advice inwards these blogs is (potentially) out-of-date, at to the lowest degree for people who are using the novel interface. And really soon, in that location volition last novel Blogger-users who've never seen the one-time interface as well as are actually confused when individual says "go to the dashboard, select Design > Page Elements as well as ..." - because they won't fifty-fifty know that the psyche Blogger covert used to last called the Dashboard.
So we've all got a challenge of updating our advice to reverberate how things are done inwards new-Blogger. Personally, I'm non thence delighted near this: I've spent most of my Blogger-HAT fourth dimension inwards the terminal 3 months re-writing every unmarried article to apply consistent formatting (Blogger-HAT started out every bit a house to popular off on all my working notes for myself) as well as lineament standards to each article. I volition last updating my articles again, but inwards the meantime ...
Advice inwards Blogger-HAT is based on using the updated editor inwards pre-Sept-2011-Blogger, unless otherwise stated.
Which version of Blogger
Today, it makes feel to utter near "new Blogger" as well as "old Blogger". But it won't last long earlier "new" isn't thence novel anymore. Personally I'm going to refer to:Blogger | the electrical current "production" version |
Pre-Sept-2011-Blogger | The "old" version (which inludes the one-time as well as updated editor options nether Settngs > Basics) |
Draft Blogger | The experimental version where Google are trying out novel things |
Describing Blogger Commands
This week's changes hateful nosotros bring some other challenge inwards writing how-do instructions for Blogger.Previously, the links to practice things within Blogger were labelled alongside text. We could say
"go to the Dashboard, select Edit Profile, discovery Identify as well as ...", or fifty-fifty "Dashboard > Edit Profile > Identify". And people who couldn't come across where the ascendency was could simply travel their Browser's assist tool to search for the correct place.
But now, modest pictures (ie icons) are used instead.
So nosotros demand to discovery a way to depict the novel features which is
- Understandable - especially by people who are novel to Google / Blogger, as well as who don't know that the modest circular matter alongside bumps is called a gear-wheel, as well as is where Google unremarkably hides the "setting" as well as "tools" type of commands, and
- Concise enough thence that articles as well as help-forum answers aspect readable (eg needing to say "the modest down-arrow to the correct of the blog-name inwards the psyche blogger screen" every fourth dimension I utter near that arrow).
Right now, I'm non certain how practice this, as well as would honey to take heed any ideas you lot bring near how I tin strength out depict the tools availabe from Blogger's screens - delight travel the comments below to allow me know how you lot would similar to come across things described.
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