Blog facelift

Thought of trying out Blogger's recent roll-out of "Dynamic-views", as a first step towards embracing HTML5!. :) Though i would certainly need to publish tonnes of posts before i even begin to get a feel of "infinite scrolling" or, dynamic/on-scroll loading of content on my blog; this does mark a humble beginning for me.

As for the look-'n-feel, i liked the "magazine-view" with the default black-&-white theme it comes with - kind of reminds you of one carefully preserved copy of some vintage b/w magazine.

For other fellow-bloggers planning to switch-over; here's a quick note on possible glitches to look out for -

While blogger's internal server-side stats (which is very basic anyway) continue to record page-views (both blog as well as individual posts); any third-party tracking-code needs to be reinstalled in order to work with the new template - with the exception of GA, which now comes integrated as an opt-in configuration, and works fine with dynamic-views. With StatCounter, the tracking-code is different for static and dynamic views, which i missed to note initially; but even after fixing it thereafter, am still waiting for the installed code to be detected by StatCounter - so, my stats are currently broken. The new code does show up in the source-view of my blog - so, that excludes the case of a delayed update being caused by caching of the template at the web-server level - i have already filed a ticket with their support-team on this & am waiting to hear back. So, am yet to clear some of my basic sanity tests & might need to tweak things further - and that includes testing of the new template on common mobile platforms/browsers as well (have tested it OK on Nokia/Opera Mini). Shall keep you posted on my findings & any fixes. I might just revert back to the old view (for the time-being) in case there are issues with the platform(s) involved that need fixing first.

Till then, happy browsing with HTML5! :)

P.S. - In case you are not happy with the present browsing experience; the older static template is still available by just appending ?v=0 to either the blog or, post url -

http://bidisha-gangopadhyay.blogspot.com/?v=0