Friday, February 27, 2009

About Blogger: More Features

General Features:
Zero Cost
Multi-User support—Team BLOG
(My library uses this feature. We have two BLOGs set up for posting important information and building teams)
Supports 41 different languages

Hosting features:
Allows Ads
Has some topic restrictions
Particularly spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Poronography

AntiSpam:
Allows for CAPTCHA
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Viewing the entire BLOG can be restricted as seen fit by writer—all of these features are under the settings tab.

Support:
Online help
www.help.blogger.com
Issue tracker
www.knownissues.blogspot.com
Support forum
www.groups.google.com
Mailing list
www.groups.google.com

Blogging Features:
Archiving
Autosave
There is a separate screen for managing items that have been previously saved but never posted. This separate place also allows one to edit previous posts.
Labels
We use labels in our library to try and make previously posted communications easy to find.
Link-Blogroll
Blog by Email
Blog by SMS/MMS
Blog API
Blogger Data API

Post Editing:
Spell Checker
WYSIWYG Editor
“What you see is what you get”
File Upload
HTML editor.

Comment Features:
Layout-flat
Extended Features
Follower Gadget
Simple ID
Connect to G-mail, Google Docs, etc.
Search Engine

Interoperability:
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Unicode Support
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs

Administration:
Optional E-mail Notifications
Themes and Skins are present
Web-based/template management
Comment administration

Syndication:
Supports RSS 2.0
Supports ATOM 0.3
PodCasting/VideoCasting
Video hosted through google video
Videos from YouTube can be posted—I’ve done it.
Pictures are hosted through PicasaAlthough one can post pictures from FLICKR

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