Blog Revamp - roamingglass 2.0

I been toying with the idea of doing a revamp to the blog layout. Main reason is that I'm posting more collarge photos so I wanted the collarge to be bigger. However, as the old layout was a very old template (think 2004), Blogger.com doesn't support it anymore and since I do not know html codes, I do not know how to adjust the width.

New Vs Old

So the next best thing is to use the new "Blogger Template Designer" and do up a new template since its very easy to customise most things. Above is my new layout vs my old layout. I thought it might take alot of time to do it so I have been putting it off. But after reading that Andy from Sengkangbabies did it in under 20 minutes, I decided to go for last night. You can check out his post on where to find the template designer in Blogger.com.

So how do you guys find the new layout? Comments very welcome.

Blogger = Fail?

Its been a few days and yet not a solution is in sight. What am I talking about? It inability to post images on my blog using the "Add Image" icon.

Well, after selecting the image and doing the settings, I click "Upload image" button and the upload starts. When its done, I see a picture of the image I uploaded and the message, "After clicking 'Done' you can change your post and publish to your blog." And click 'Done' I did, except the image does not appear on my blog. Strange thing is, I can see the photo on my Pizacaweb album, meaning it was indeed uploaded successfully.

While I could embed link the images and it will appear on my blog, why should I go thru the trouble? Obviously something is broken...

Clearing the cache, disabling all browser addons, resetting my PC and still it does not work. Goggle and suddenly realise the whole blogger community is facing the same issue, for days. No indication when it will be fixed, the problem is also not listed in the "Known Issues" of Blogger Help Center.

Makes we wonder if Blogger = Fail, and if I should just switch to Wordpress?

Update 03 July 09: Its been almost a week and Blogger has done nothing. Apparently it doesn't affect all blogger (since Johnson can upload images as per normal) so I guess to them its not critical. Guess have to roll up my sleeves and do some html coding...

Sharing is Sexy?

I was surfing around other blogs and I notice many of them had those little cute icons at in the end of their post that enables readers to promote the post in one of the those sites like digg or stumbleupon. So I began to Google on how to do it.

Came across a pretty cool one which I'm trying out on my blog now. Its the "Sharing is Sexy" plug-in for Wordpress that was done by eight7teen. Google further and you would find the instruction on how to add it to Blogger by Naeemnur.

I might fine tune it abit later but it will do for now. Or I might just get sick of it and look for something more simple like Sociable, yet another cool plug-in for Wordpress. For those of you who like to try simulating Sociable on Blogger, can try out the instruction by Forest.