Yesterday Blogger, now owned by Google, relaunced their service with many new great improvements. They now have a beautiful and easy-to-use new design and interface courtesy of Doug Bowman and Adaptive Path. Bowman along with a few other high-profile designers have also created a slew of new standards compliant CSS based templates which are top notch. The last main new feature is comments which has been missing from Blogger for a while. This is somewhat Typepadish in that you can choose to only let registered Blogger users comment, or you can let anyone do so.
Lots of bloggers are talking about the launch:
- Doug Bowman has an excellent account of the design process.
- Steven Garrity evaluates the new templates.
- Phil Ringnalda raves.
- Dan Cederholm adds his two cents on his design.
- And Dave Winer complains about Google as usual, yet also gives some somewhat interesting ideas.
Whew, that was a lot of links. Now I'll go play around with it. It's good that Blogger is getting back into the game. They had been lagging behind for quite some time. And although they still have a ways to go before catching up with MovableType or Typepad, they offer a pretty good service for free.
And not only is blogger back, but your favourite blogger powered BLOG is back. When I saw the new features I had to bring back the world's greatest non-jeff-hume blog. Comments are a pretty nifty addition. And the new templates are waaay better than the crappy old ones. But enough of that. Visit my blog, cause it still rocks, just let me get it rockin again.