MyBloglog was recently acquired by yahoo. And it started allowing users to link there yahoo account to there myblog account. I did some mistake and ended up deleting my original myblog account.

I created a new one.. and tried to register my blog but it said.. I have to claim it. As it is owned by another user. This is bad.. (Deleting my earlier account should have deleted my blog info too)

Any way myblog log allows 2 ways 2 claim the blog.. one via a link in post and another via a meta tag. I am using the link . and here it is ..

Will be deleting it once the verification is done.

The one feature which really got me was the preview pane. I have been using lots of other Blog editing tools but none of them had this. The preview pane actually shows how the blog will look when its posted not just a simple mockup.

The other feature like inserting links, pictures, videos etc are common among all the blog editors. But windows takes it a step further by providing a plug-in framework. Using this framework developers can provide custom built insert options. Whole galary of plug-in have already been created and they are all pretty useful.

One Plug-in which I have been looking was the Code formatter, And here it is in all its glory.

   1:  class MyClass {

   2:      public static main(String[] args) {

   3:          System.out.println("Hello world");

   4:      }

   5:  }

.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
.csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; }
.csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; }
.csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; }
.csharpcode .str { color: #006080; }
.csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; }
.csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; }
.csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; }
.csharpcode .html { color: #800000; }
.csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; }
.csharpcode .alt
{
background-color: #f4f4f4;
width: 100%;
margin: 0em;
}
.csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; }

.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
.csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; }
.csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; }
.csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; }
.csharpcode .str { color: #006080; }
.csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; }
.csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; }
.csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; }
.csharpcode .html { color: #800000; }
.csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; }
.csharpcode .alt
{
background-color: #f4f4f4;
width: 100%;
margin: 0em;
}
.csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; }UPDATE : Looks like my blogger theam doesn’t like the code generated by the code formatter plugin. It looked nice in Windows Blog writer.

Looking forward to more useful plugins which can enrich the blogging experience. I remember the days when I used to edit the blogs on blogger website. . It was one of the biggest turn off during my initial blogging days.

And here is the screen shot of the preview pane.

This is really a great feature. This will make the user experience uniform across the whole blog. The comments section can now gel with the post.

I had actually searched a lot for a blogger templates which has this feature. This feature is readily available in all the WordPress templates.

Unfortunately this has broken the Commenting feature in the iTheam blogger template I use .

To fix the issue I had to change “Comment Form Placement” setting to “Pop-up Window” which enables the old style commenting.

Blogger Dashboard -> {Blog Name} -> Settings -> comments -> Comment Form Placement.

Will try / search for a better fix till then “Old is Gold”.