Facts about Blogger

Now, The most used free Blogging service with Amazing features is "Blogger". At starting, This service has launched by Pyra Labs in the year 1999. After few years, Pyra Labs co-founder Evan Williums left this great service to Google Inc., In October, 2004. At starting, Photos, Videos service not launched and By using HTML only , One can post their Text post. After transferring this service to Google, Google integrated Photo and Video uploading facility and Google developed many more things. Now, One can easily type and Post their post. Entire of this credit goes to Google!

What Google Re-Designed? (In the year 2012):

• Adding location to posts via geotagging.
• Post time-stamping at publication, not at original creation.
• Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, per-blog preference.
• Link editing in Compose mode.
• Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and Mac OS.
• New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view.
• Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in Compose mode.
• New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons. Also added was the full justification button, a strike-through button, and an expanded color palette.

What Google Integrated to Blogger?

• The Google Toolbar has a feature called "BlogThis!" which allows toolbar users with Blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs.
• "Blogger for Word" is an add-in for Microsoft Word which allows users to save a Microsoft Word Document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline. As of January 2007, Google says "Blogger for Word is not currently compatible with the new version of Blogger", and they state no decision has been made about supporting it with the new Blogger.[14] However, Microsoft Office 2007 adds native support for a variety of blogging systems, including Blogger.
• Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a way of generating revenue from running a blog.
• Blogger also started integration with Amazon Associates in December 2009, as a service to generate revenue.[15] It was not publically announced, but by September 2011 it appeared that all integration options had been removed and that the partnership had ended.[16]
• Blogger offers multiple author support, making it possible to establish group blogs.
• Blogger offers a template editing feature, which allows users to customize the Blogger template.
• Windows Live Writer, a standalone app of the Windows Live suite, publishes directly to Blogger.
• Blogger Private Blog features: Blogger offers a private blog that can be only access by author or invited readers /authors or admins only .
• Blogger can be optionally integrated with Google+.
• Google+ comments can be integrated with blogger comments.

However, There are several Limitations in Blogger. They are:

• Blogger only supports: AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3
• Blog description = 500 characters. HTML mark up not supported.
• Number of blogs = 100 blogs per account.
• Number of labels = 5000 unique labels per blog (increased from the original 2000), 20 unique labels per post
• Number of pictures (hyperlinked from user's Google+ Web Album) = 15 GB of free storage (Shared between Google Drive, Google+ and Gmail). However, if you have signed up for google plus account, images less than 2048 x 2048 pixels would not be counted to this storage limit. For users not signed up for google plus, 800 x 800 pixels and below images would not be included in this storage space.[23]
• Number of posts =There is no limit on the number of posts one can have in one blog.
• Size of pages = Individual pages (the main page of a blog or archive pages) are limited to 1 MB
• Size of pictures = If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 300 KB per picture; posted pictures are scaled to 1600px[24]
• Stand-Alone Pages = Limited to 20 stand-alone pages.
• Team members (those who can write to a blog) = 100 invitations per blog.
• Favicon =Any square image less than 100KB.

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