A Blogger Wishlist

Blogger Wishlist

Blogger is a very nice platform to begin blogging. But it can get quite frustrating once you have got the hang of it and you wish to change the look and feel of your blog... I have been using major amounts of stuff from blogger buster to customise the look and feel of my blog... Ty v much for that amanda... Really looking forward for the ebook of yours :) AND of course winning the prize! :)

Here are things I would love to see real soon on the blogger platform:

1. Templates choices: More templates to use of course and the Ability to make colours change on everything individually. Add in a header and footer through the layout screen. Specifying width and length for both if applicable. Have the ability to create 1,2,3,4 or more column blogs right from the layout, where you can simply drag and drop a new column which you can then customize either by specifying its width (and length if applicable) in pixels or percentages. So that the Layout screen truly becomes a complete drag and drop experience. Maybe they should give it out to Apple to make this :)
2. Tips on SEO: Some basic tips to optimize your blog for SEO. Maybe some software could crawl the blog and let you know what to do for better google presence.
3. Ability to add bookmarks (of various social networking sites) to the main site as well as to your posts, by just selecting them and adding a variety of different buttons that could be made available for them through some post customization or basic customization screens.
4. Some fun widgets could be added... And designing them should be made easy, so a person with basic HTML can quickly whip up a widget that they can use and that they can offer as downloads for others... Either paid or free.
5. The Inline comment forms can be made prettier, by adding the editor that we already have on the create a post page. Also the ability to comment to a comment or nested comments would be a superb feature to have.
6. Ability to easily add a podcast audio or video.
7. Some tune up software that could tell you what’s taking how long to load so you could do some optimizing on load times even if you are a complete newbie.
8. Ability to see visually how people who are visiting your blog are clicking. Something that could keep a track of how many clicks on which links and then generating a heat map of the page, so you can see where people are going on your blog
9. Tabbed Browsing built in... So if there is something I want to make a sticky I can put it in a tab and it doesn’t eat up space on the main page.
10. Cool transitional effects a la Keynote from Apple, so when someone clicks to go to some page, the page turns or explodes into confetti or blurs or some stuff like that :)
11. Ability to show selected excerpts from my posts with a read more button.
12. Ability to give labels to the photos I upload to the blog. As well as choose the placement of the label (on the photo, under the photo, etc) and the font, font size and colour I want for the label.
13. Ability to load a folder of images all at once
14. Blogger.com should work when we really need it :) :) :)

PS to all people reading this, its a post for a competition from amanda of blogger buster ... if you have a blog, it would be fun to enter :)
PPS You can add your own demands (well wishes really) to the good people at blogger by clicking here