The Rosebay Blog which is our digital pile for simple text documents uses Google Blogger.
Blogger is free having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Blogger has limited branding and no ads or pop ups.
Blogger supports posting using email. Posts can be created or edited using the Blogger online editor. This editor supports text mode or html mode and has a spell checker. Posts consisting of paragraphs and simple formatting are easy created. Any post can be updated at any time using this editor. Posts can be deleted. Blogger supports links, images, and iframes when a more complex post is desired. Blogger supports much of what is available using XHTML; however support for forms is very limited.
Blogger supports providing access to multiple individuals to edits posts using the online editor. Those having access to edit posts may also use Blogger to upload images to the corresponding Picasa Web Album.
Blogger organizes message by the date of first post. Posts can be grouped using labels. Every post is searchable from the main page immediately after postings based on the posts content or the label. The posts are also searchable using Google Search if the posts are set to public. Public posts are available to users of Google Alerts. Posts can be backdated.
Each post has an individual url based on the date and title of the post. The Blog template can be modified without effecting the content of the posts. Individual posts can have a different look and feel from that of the main page allowing the individual posts to be presented in bare bones fashion suitable for reuse by our other Chapter sites.
Posts can support comments from visitors. In some instances Google widgets such as polls and slideshows are able to be integrated into Blogger.
Blogger supports RSS so users can asked to be notified of new posts. Mobile phone access to Blogger is supported. Blogger has an extensive set of APIs.
The set of posts can be exported from Blogger for use by other XML based software. Filtered XML can be exported using labels or dates as parameters.
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Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
