Thursday, September 30, 2010

Bloggity blog

Today I learned about some new features on the old Blogger.

One of these is adding Followers over on the sidebar. I've seen a lot of blogs with this, and they have followers, and inevitably I feel a little jealous and think, "I don't have that many followers!" until I put it together that maybe if I had a thing, people would follow. So there you go. Follow me or don't, see if I care.

The other thing I figured out was how to change what your comments are called! I see this all the time, but for some reason had the notion that everyone who did it had some sort of extensive web design training. But that's not the case, they're actually just as smart as I am. So I also changed the name of my comments.

And the last thing I found (and chose to emply here) was the "Reactions" feature. Down at the bottom of this post, you see where you can click a box expressing your love or your shock or your awe? Isn't that so great? The thing that's not so great is that there isn't a lot of room. I originally had like 8 different reactions, but you could only see a couple of them. Stupid skinny columns. I hate them.

Anyway, probably not anything new to lots of you, but new to me.

OH! And the other thing that I LOVE--pictures! I always hated blogging with pictures because you had to upload them in reverse order of how you want them, then they always mess up the text, and blah blah blah. But whatever this new thing is, where you can insert them wherever you want and change the sizes after the fact, and use any pics you've already used on the blog? Changing my life. Thanks Blogga.

4 comments:

Becca said...

i would like to boost your self esteem.

you're hot.

that's all I've got. haha, but for reals, in that wedding pic of your shoes, you have some freakin sexy lil ankles miss erin.

and also the picture thing is a life saver for me too. on my photo blog i hated that my pics were so small and other photo websites had these huge pics. now i can post bigger pics and I am very happy about it.

Shelly said...

I would like to clarify that my response was SHOCK and not awe.

Shelly said...

Also, I thought it would be funny to clikc on the shock/awe response 100 times, but it doesn't work. I clicked on it again and the parenthetical number changed to 2, but when I refreshed the page it was back to 1 again. So, my shock value is only 1 and cannot intensify.

Erin said...

Well thanks, Becca. My ankles are blushing.

Shelly, I appreciate the thought, even if it din't work out. I also appreciate that you were willing to click it 100 times.