Participate in improving Blogger.com!

Google's Product Ideas Team asks for ôur wishes and requests to improve Blogger.com. They did that last year as well and, wow, a couple of months later the hibernation status of Blogger.com suddenly ended. Of course, Blogger.com always improved over time, but since early 2010 things started to change rapidly and the improvements have been huge.

So now it's "Round 2". And my biggest three wishes are

1. more flexibility and options to customise the menu bar (more in this follow up post)
2. conditional page elements, which allow to set "if" options when certain elements should be displayed. Those settings could be done on the dashboard "Page Elements" for elements and gadgets as well as within the gadgets. Such conditional page elements allow to create custom pages (including the homepage / homeUrl) as well as contextual gadgets. I described that in more detail in a previous post.
3. A possibility to offer 3rd party tools and services for Blogger.com like an appstore, incl checkout and licensing (default is free and open source, services can use Google checkout). That includes the ability to offer "admin" gadgets which can be selected in the same way as normal gadgets. Therefore no need to manipulate the HTML code anymore for powerusers. Those "admin" gadgets allow for example 
1. to include code in the Head section as well as 
2. extend the CSS default options for 3rd parties to add options (such as a URL for the background rather then uploading the image)
3. allow the user to save and keep templates, his own customised templates as well as 3rd party ones...

I have a lot more wishes, but those are details compared to my top 3.

Content Management using Blogger.com

Blogger.com is a free website hosting service of Google intended to offer a home for Bloggers. Blogger has become a powerful and versatile tool with very few restrictions. If you want free hosting, a possibility to maintain the site as a team and to enjoy the possibility of AJAX & Co Blogger is there for you.

At BloggerCMS we want to help to build a site which is not primarily a blogsite. We help you using blogger as a content management system - the CMS in our name :-)

Content Management using Blogger

Blogger is a free website hosting service of Google intended to offer a home for Bloggers. Blogger has become a powerful and versatile tool with very few restrictions. If you want free hosting, a possibility to maintain the site as a team and to enjoy the possibility of AJAX & Co Blogger is there for you.

At BloggerCMS we want to help to build a site which is not primarily a blogsite. We help you using blogger as a content management system - the CMS in our name :-)