Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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
3 comments:
Finally got StatCounter working, after their support-team responded to my ticket - your css should actually look something like this -
body {
background-image : url('http://c.statcounter.com/1122331/0/aabbccd/1/');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:left bottom;
}
So, the else-part of their documentation seems to be the right one to follow - though the first part was applicable, it doesn't seem to work -
http://statcounter.com/blogger_dynamic_views/
Missed to post a few updates -
- StatCounter fails to capture the traffic-source for dynamic-views (other parameters are reported fine) - that's only expected, as no third-party js-code is supported with the dynamic-themes.
- Tested OK on Android as well (w/ mobile-template enabled).
Am reverting back to the plain-view, at least for now - shall revisit this later, to check for better 3rd-party support & customizations.
Till then, here's Blogger's default-enabled access to the dynamic view -
http://bidisha-gangopadhyay.blogspot.com/view/magazine
All gibberish for me... What about a post on something a little bit non-technical...when can we readers expect that from you? I got bitten by Tommy today :-(. The fault was, of course, his and the generosity, as is obvious, was mine. I forgave him! How audacious of him even to think that I could bite him? Stupid dog! I tried to 'restore' the 'cuts' and 'bruises' like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator but it didn't quite work out. So here I am, all 'covered' in antiseptics, swallowing antibiotics and trying to console myself reading your wonderful posts on Elsa! Post another blog soon. Have a good day.
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