Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I’ve been scouring the World Wide Web for Blogger templates, recently. I’ve come across quite a few websites that have extremely classy templates! I’m happy to see that Blogger users have more choices available to them today. When I was with Blogger, 10 years ago now, the templates were horrid, and there were only a [...]

Ouch. Haloscan, that blog commenting software that has been around for years, is closing the service. This is from their website. Haloscan, the legacy comment system that JS-Kit acquired last year, is physically starting to fail (the software and hardware). In order to minimize the disruption for users and avoid a hard stop, we have [...]

Here’s another example of why any serious blogger– or even the casual blogger who cares for his blog– should consider leaving Blogger and going with one’s own domain and web host service. Google Deletes Blogger Posts Ryan Spaulding: Beginning last summer, I slowly began to notice that several older posts were beginning to disappear. This [...]

Yikes. This news story is another very grim reminder of how tenuous the freedom of speech is in the world. This is sad. An internet blogger and a writer who disguised an attack on Burma’s dictator in the form of a love poem were among dozens of activists sentenced to draconian jail terms as the [...]

I just discovered some more terrific Blogger templates, all free for the taking. They are absolutely eye-popping! Blogger Buster has the list of them– a long list of them (beware, the page is very graphic heavy). I am very impressed with the styles. No more clunky Blogger templates! And these templates look easy to customize, [...]

Blogger, the most popular free blogging platform, has really been making leaps and bounds lately. I’m glad to see the newer developments with the software (better functionality, more user-friendly, etc). (I’m still waiting for some better templates… I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath about that, it’s been– what? 10 years with the same templates? [...]