Yes, blogger a famous blogging platform is going to stop their FTP Publishing services on March 26, 2010. I was using the FTP solution of Blogger. I was happy using them. Unfortunately this announcement made me feel that I might lose my blogs. I was aware that I would not be able to continue using Blogger as they do not allow subdomains to be added to their custom domain service. I never got down as I had my wordpress handy.
You know what I did? I deleted all my published blogs. Downloaded Wordpress and started to install on my subdomain. It took a total of 12 minutes to move all my blogs to my new wordpress layout. Yes, now I am running Wordpress 2.9.1 and I am enjoying the same.
I like the new wordpress layout as it is very much sophisticated and easy to install and use. Google Blogspot is coming up with new changes shortly in few months let me wait and see what they have got for me.
Today as i was digging through Blogger I found an option of posting blogs through email. The world has become too short. The blogs could be published using mobile, email and what not … sometime in the future kids would ask "Papa! What do you mean by Books?"
Deeply inspired by the simple and plain look of the my website http://www.abrahamdurairaj.info I have changed my blog as well to look so. Plain and simple always look better than the designed ones. I will try to retain this kinda layout till I get bored of the plain vanilla.
Another inspiration was Richard Stallmans personal homepage which looked simpler than mine.
I would like to achieve something via simplicity.
I am just amazed by the thoughts that people get while creating tools. Here is a beautiful website that check the design of any website, popularity of a website and accessibility of the website.
It does about 130 tests on Basic HTML, Frames etc.
Here is the link.
http://sitescore.silktide.com/
Check your website and fix the issues it says … it really means what it says.
Also for your further reference you can use another cool web based siteperformance tool. That is netmechanic you can visit http://www.netmechanic.com for more details.
