New Blog Interface vs. Old Blog Interface

Hello Students,

As you are getting established in the class, I wanted to bring something to your attention about the Blogger (blogspot) interface.  Many of you, if you have never used blogger before, are working under the "New Blog Interface".  See picture below - click on the picture to enlarge it:

Red Arrow - if you click this, you will create a whole new blog.  Please do not use this button, otherwise you will create a whole new blog instead of a NEW POST.

Orange Arrow - To create a new post you should click the orange arrow.  When you log into your blog 3 times a week, this is what you will click.

Purple Arrow - this is to "View" your blog and all of your posts as others would see your blog.  You should use this to make sure your posts appear to other people.

Blue Arrow - a drop down menu will appear.  See picture below:

Clicking it will bring down a drop down menu that will give you options to navigate your blog.


Green Arrow - this little sprocket is pretty important!!!  If you click on this little sprocket, another drop down menu will appear.  There are 6 options in this menu.  Option #5 says "Old Blogger Interface".  I would suggest using the old blogger interface for easiness of use. The old interface is much more user friendly, so if you are unfamiliar with blogger, or blogging in general, I would suggest using the old interface.   If you DO decide to make that switch, you will then see the picture below. 

When using the old blogger interface, once you log on you will see the above picture.

Purple Arrow - 3 times a week you will log into your blog and create a NEW POST.  This means that you are going to create a new post to your blog, where you can answer one of the discussion questions for a given week.

Green Arrow - This is the design button where you can change the look of your blog.  I would suggest that you AVOID using the "Dynamic Views" design.  It can create some issues for folks that read your blog.

Red Arrow - if you click this, you will create a whole new blog.  Please do not use this button, otherwise you will create a whole new blog instead of a NEW POST.

Yellow Arrow - clicking this while navigating through blogger will take you back to your Dashboard (which is what we are already looking at).

Email me with any questions you might have about blogger, the new interface or the old interface.