Released in march, the issues contain many essential contemporary functions and play specially properly with the tiny displays of phones and mobile devices.
However, these topics are not for every body. Here is the story.
The new subject matters consist of some actual enhancements together with a layout that changes dynamically in reaction to different screen sizes, which include telephones
on the other hand, the topics make a few non-negotiable picks approximately the weblog, and particularly about the show of pictures, that may not be suitable for anybody.
Compared to the previous technology of so-referred to as designer templates, those are in a few ways more specialized and less bendy.
No longer just a new look
The four new subject matters, contempo, soho, emporio, and wonderful, show off weblog content in methods which can be elegant and hanging.
The four new subject matters, contempo, soho, emporio, and wonderful, show off weblog content in methods which can be elegant and hanging.
In every case the front page has a distinct appearance that represents blog posts as rectangular or square tiles that contain the primary image of every post.
However the change is more than pores and skin deep. The template code has been reworked to add new functionality, together with a featured or "hero" submit this is pinned on the pinnacle of the blog in a bigger size and pleasing design. (you can set this to be any put up, or to mechanically feature the maximum recent.)
in quick, with links to examples:
•contempo seems appropriate for combined content (photograph and text). The large hero publish may want to showcase the right picture in an attention grabbing way, and subsequent posts arrange into columns
•soho's fascinating hero put up is followed by using rectangles prepared into columns (or one, in cell view). It's miles the only theme that lacks an option to show a text snippet, except in the hero post.
•emporio organizes posts as tidy squares that comprise an photo and the blog name only (and the choice of which include a brief snippet)
•outstanding has a linear presentation, all posts as huge shallow rectangles. It's far the most textual content-oriented of all the designs, however a squared off image snippet remains gift.
Page factors including the hero post can be suppressed or changed, as an example to include a photograph or text snippet.
•contempo seems appropriate for combined content (photograph and text). The large hero publish may want to showcase the right picture in an attention grabbing way, and subsequent posts arrange into columns
•soho's fascinating hero put up is followed by using rectangles prepared into columns (or one, in cell view). It's miles the only theme that lacks an option to show a text snippet, except in the hero post.
•emporio organizes posts as tidy squares that comprise an photo and the blog name only (and the choice of which include a brief snippet)
•outstanding has a linear presentation, all posts as huge shallow rectangles. It's far the most textual content-oriented of all the designs, however a squared off image snippet remains gift.
Page factors including the hero post can be suppressed or changed, as an example to include a photograph or text snippet.
The show of character posts on their very own pages is complete and traditional, though there are small variations in format through template.
A responsive layout
Blogger has long past all-in on a idea called responsive design to evolve to the unique approaches that people may view your blog. It's far maximum absolutely realized in the emporio topic.
To peer responsive layout it in movement on a computer pc, go to the house page of an emporio weblog and either (1) drag one of the aspects of your browser window onward, to decrease the width, in any other case (2) regulate the magnification (ctrl + on windows and chromium, cmd + on mac) upwards in small increments.
Watch the subject redecorate itself to in shape available space.
Emporio (shown, above) has 4 distinct design states. From widest to narrowest:
- Full desktop shows the sidebar at right and 3 columns of tiles under the hero post.
- A wide tablet or smaller window might narrow the hero post and show only 2 columns of tiles per row
- Narrower still shows only one column, with the sidebar next door. You might have to scroll down to see that part.
- In phone view, narrowest of all, the posts become a single scroll-able column. The sidebar collapses into a "hamburger menu," 3 horizontal lines at top right. Click it to see the sidebar presented in a mobile-friendly way.
Other New Features
In addition to the hero post, on scrolldown the blog title and search pop out from the top on a shallow shelf, always available wherever you are. You can also put a "subscribe" link on the shelf.The internal architecture of the template code has been substantially reworked to load faster and to create new ways of organizing content, at least in theory.
Given Blogger's culture of tinkerers, I expect to see some great modifications and gadgets that take advantage of the new structure—like this one.
Some innovations are theme-specific. Contempo has a top and bottom sidebar. Emperio has different sidebars for dynamic pages (such as the main page) and static ones, such as posts. If you use Emporio, you can show different sidebar gadgets on a post page versus the main page.
What's Not RightGenerally, I think that navigation in the new themes is weak, and that some readers might have trouble decoding how the site works.
Bloggers don't want to make things hard on their readers.Also, the way the themes put photos onto the main page is limiting. In my case, the themes not play well with my older content on this blog, particularly photos and other images.
I'm going to have to flesh these general remarks out in a future post.
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