Wednesday, March 28, 2012

ITP V.012: UPDATE: BLOGSPOT MANDATORY NEW INTERFACE: Blogger getting new look in April, most likely final notice



ITP V.012 UPDATE: Yes, there's been lots of talk about highly paid graphic designers ruining social networking sites (MYSPACE, FACEBOOK "Timeline") and now....BLOGSPOT.
Aww, hell, there are 22 year old kids whom really do know what they're doing in a way that doesn't alienate social networking users, and veteran bloggers, unlike the graphic designers of MYSPACE, BLOGSPOT or FACEBOOK's horrid and confusing timeline.
While ITP V.012 is uploaded to another an unnamed blog server (two blogs, mirror blog, two IDENTICAL blogs on two different blog servers-the non BLOGSPOT blog private until I say "Go Live").. ITP V.012 will try to continue on here on BLOGSPOT, because, other than this "new interface" BS, BLOGSPOT has been very good to and supportive of ITP, and I hope I'm not overrating BLOGSPOT as a few other BSP were awesome in standing up to SOPA.

The new BLOGGER INTERFACE, in BETA TESTING MODE through most of 2011, will be MANDATORY starting in APRIL 2012, ARRRRRRRRRRRGH, fucking horrid timing.
ITP V.012 will slow down posting (sorry, something has to give) to switch over and learn the new BLOGGER interface. Me thinks I can do it, I am 'puter LITTERATE and motivated. If, by any chance, ITP's author does not like, I have ITP V.012 set up on a different BSP, and I can walk, with a few tears, and continue ITP on a different Blog server, and YES, I will continue blogging, ITP WILL CONTINUE. I really do love BLOGSPOT, just the way it is or was, don't matter what, no hard feelings.

So ITP V.012 will give it a go, with options, but considering important priorities in my life, ITP V.012 MUSIC NEWS FEATURES Will be postponed until the second half of APRIL: (NOTES FROM THE EXTREME METAL UNDERGROUND, DAMNED IN BLACK (BLACK METAL NEWS),
HUMANITY IS DOOMED (DOOM METAL NEWS).

My stress regarding this new MANDATORY INTERFACE issue, is the timing in my life, and the condition of my 'puter, as I'll be, for a few weeks, depending on time, working from two different 'puters, and it will take TIME, to make sure ITP V.012 is
consolidated with the new BLOGSPOT INTERFACE.

ITP's experience with switching over from AOL HOMETOWN BLOGS to BLOGSPOT 10/31/2008 (before then): Quick and Painless, and mucho better (blog entries on DRAFT) then anything AOL had to offer regarding journals.. BLOGSPOT is not even specifying a date for the mandated interface, just a vauge reference of APRIL, lame, do it now, or move it to another BSP now.
My prediction with the new BLOGSPOT INTERFACE WORST CASE SCENARIO:
I will:
* SAVE ALL HTML CODES FOR WIDGETS and FRONT PAGE BLOG LOGO/GRAPHICS TO E-MAIL and TO YOUR SELF AND SAVE THE E-MAIL. ADD WIDGETS TO BLOG AFTER TRANSFER TO NEW INTERFACE.
** SAVE ALL LINKS TO E-MAIL and ADD BLOG ACCESORIES WHEN YA WANT AFTER TRANSFER TO NEW INTERFACE.
*** Whatever you lose in choice graphics can be re added later. save all LINKS, although some are outdated (DOOMMETAL.COM WHERE ARE YOU?). The ITP V.012 CREATIVE COMMONS GRAVEYARD PIC is SAVED IN MY 'PUTER.
**** If you're switching over from BLOGSPOT to another blog server, the above is guarenteed to apply, it took ITP V.011 eleven minutes to upload this blog to another BSP.
***** You can DOWNLOAD your own BLOG, and save to the hard drive of your 'puter.
During the next few days, or week or so, expect a slower/lower ITP V.012 post count, as I'm working on consolidating ITP V.012 with the new BLOGSPOT INTERFACE.
If I don't POST for a day or two, I'm busy with the new BLOGSPOT INTERFACE and priorities in my life: DO NOT WAKE ME UP AFTER 10PM, or bother me while walking down the street regarding any metal news, later for that.

If you're a college student, graphics arts/internet/designer sounds like a 'rad major, mucho money, as the downside, if you get the job re designing MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, or BLOGSPOT and you fuck it up, alienating users, everyone HATES YOU, hope you enjoy your mucho cash DOUCHE.

BTW, social net workers: GOOGLE + is your new GOD. Ya don't like FACEBOOK, MYSPACE, TWITTER SCROLLS if you're not sitting on it, G MAIL, GOOGLE + and BLOGSPOT are consolidated. So ITP's author will keep her account, don't matter what just for GOOGLE +, the future of social networking.

ITP V.012 will see ya on the other side on the new BLOGSPOT interface, as ITP WILL CONTINUE.
FROM TECHMANS WORLD:
If you have been using Blogger, you should already know that Google has been trying to get you to switch to the new blogger interface. You might have been able to escape the change, but you thought wrong. In April, Blogger is getting a new look in April. The image above shows this on the old style dashboard. I personally have been using the new interface, but had to go back to the old one to make regular template backups. I was experimenting with my HTML of this page earlier today, trying to get a new button put in, which I will talk to you about at some later time.

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-