Today, I'm officially launching Blogger-HAT-Lite - a novel weblog where I component quick notes unopen changes inward production other than blogger, which I intend Bloggers may locomote interested in, or definitely demand to know about.
All Blogger-hints-and-tips readers are invited to visit the site, subscribe past RSS or subscribe to past email.
More than simply buzz ...
Blogger-HAT-Lite is non unopen repeating brigth-and-breezy announcements from other services.Instead, it aims to:
- Filter these, thus that solely ones amongst (possible) implications for Blogger users are reported
- Suggest questions that demand to locomote asked inward add-on to issues that demand research unopen the effect on Blogger integration
- Link to information unopen related topics - especially ones that beak unopen consequences that the people making the original changes may non bring persuasion about.
... but less than fully-researched articles
It was also a test-bed for tools similar Analytics that I wanted to utilisation on my main blog, but needed to endeavor elsewhere first. After installing it, I bring out that other people were looking for the same answers - inward add-on to when they googled, my notes were what they found.
I rapidly institute that the most interesting topics were unopen making Blogger "play nicely" amongst other products, rather than Blogger itself. At the same time, I aimed to transcend xv minutes/day answering questions inward the Blogger Help Forum - to acre give thank you you lot for all the assistance I received when I was getting started.
Typing the same answers over inward add-on to over got tedious, inward add-on to when I institute something novel subsequently on that would bring changed a previous answer, it wasn't feasible to regain the earlier answers inward add-on to update them. So I started writing articles unopen things that people were weep out for for assistance with, thus I could simply link to the article from the discussion.
So I started researching inward add-on to writing longer articles amongst the background, solution inward add-on to the wider consequences (what testament you lot see? what practise your readers see? what else practise you lot demand to intend about?).
- A identify for quick notes unopen these issues
- A agency to keep rails of interesting things I see,and
- A family to component interesting-but not-fully-researched updates with my readers.
What's covered
Blogger users could utilisation hundreds of other products inward conjunction amongst theeir blogs. Any spammer could develop a feed-based site that searches other sites for the word "blogger" inward add-on to reposts the results.Instead, I've selected a grouping of products to monitor: ones that I utilisation inward add-on to recommend, inward add-on to which I a know a lot of Blogger-users use. So far the listing includes:
Picasa
Youtube
Gmail
AdSense
Analytics
AdWords
Google Custom Search Engines
Feedburner
Google Affiliate Network
Webmaster Tools (Webmaster Central)
And these (currently :-) non-Google products:
Chitika
Amazon Associates
More testament locomote added every flake I start using to a greater extent than products, or regain announcements-blogs for existing ones (eg Google Maps).
Are inward that identify any other tools you lot would similar me to kicking the bucket on an eye on, thus I tin strength out intend unopen whether changes inward them touching on Blogger? Leave a comment below ...