Saturday, April 2, 2011

View any blog as you like


Till now the blog authors decide in which way you all people should see his blog. Now the time had changed and you can decide in which way you should view your favorite blog.

At present blogger offers5 dynamic views for the public blogs. However these views are available only if it is allowed by blogger. The five dynamic views allowed by blogger are flipcard,mosaic,sidebar,snapshot  and timeline.


· Flipcard: available at [blogURL]/view/flipcard
· Mosaic: available at [blogURL]/view/mosaic
· Sidebar: available at [blogURL]/view/sidebar
· Snapshot: available at [blogURL]/view/snapshot
· Timeslide: available at [blogURL]/view/timeslide

If you wan to view your favorite blog in style you choose just type your blog URL/view/type of view.
For example; to view allinthiz in sidebar style type http://allinthiz.blogspot.com/view/sidebar


These dynamic views require new browsers such as Internet Explorer 8+, Morzilla Firefox 3.5+, Chrome or Safari. Many elements of these views will not work should you have an older browser.
In all views, search is available in the upper right hand corner. Clicking on the ">" arrow in the very top left of the header bar will slide the header bar across and allow you to choose different views for the current blog as well as type in a new blog URL. You can switch your view at any time you prefer.
Flipcard
  • Hover mouse over any of the cards displayed to see the post title and comment count. When you scroll down, additional posts will continue to load.
  • To see a post in full view click on the card. You can navigate through the posts using J(older post) and K (newer post) or the arrow keys. Press escape or click back to all posts to return to the Flipcard view.
  • In the upper left, click to sort by Date, Author and Category.

Mosaic
·        In this type of view you can see a number of tiles displayed.
·        Clicking on an individual tile will expand that post to the full width of the view, and clicking again will collapse the post back into its original position.
·        The exact position of the tiles is randomly determined each time the blog loads, but they will appear chronologically from top left to bottom right.
·        Once a tile is expanded, you can page down by using the "up" and "down" arrow keys as well as J and K.
·        This view is optimized for the tablet viewing, and supports screen rotation.
Sidebar

This has got quick and easy searching formulae
  • This is aimed for quick reading and browsing.
  • Ther is a sidebar on the left side of the blog where the individual post headers are displayed in a chronological order with comment counts and thumbnails for individual posts.
  • J and K arrow keys will navigate through the posts and comments can be displayed on the same page by clicking the Show link.

Snapshot

  • Here all pages won’t be displayed.
  • Only the posts which have images will be displayed.
  • Clicking at any image will display the full post page, with navigation links at the bottom for Newer and Older posts
  • Hover mouse over any photo to display a post snippet

Timeline
This view differentiate blog content into 3
Left column: It has enlarged image with a post snippet, title, and these snippets are displayed in chronological order
Middle column: Displays just the post title and snippet
Right column: Displays just the individual post titles
When searching for posts in this view, the results will be highlighted.









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