Our old dashboard was getting a little cramped, so we reorganized things and gave everything a fresh, new look. You can see this now by logging in to Blogger in draft.The new dashboard contains all of the same information that the old one did, but rearranged to emphasize the most important content and changes (and with a little more room for future goodness).
By default, only some of your blogs are shown in the dashboard, although there’s a link you can click to display all of them. The blogs we show by default include the two blogs you most recently published to, as well as any with unmoderated comments or ToS/spam warnings.
Please try this out and let us know what you think in the comments! Your feedback is an important part of our design process and we’d like to know what you think before we release this re-design out into the wild.
Remember: Not sure where some of your blogs went? Click the “Display all blogs” link at the bottom.
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Brilliant new dashboard. Good work! Much less cramped :)
Great new look. So much better. :o)
Looking very nice. I've always reckoned the current dashboard was a little ugly. Not that I could ever put my finger on what was wrong with it...
I miss having my list of blogs. I post regularly to at least 6. To have to keep clicking something to find the blog I want is annoying. I much prefer to just scroll to the one I want.
Could we have a setting where we could choose how many to display? That would be greatly appreciated.
Looks awesome, but of course I have a suggestion. In the section that says "My Reading Lists" could you add the "Blogs of Note"? I noticed that it isn't on the new dashboard. Also add the Blogger in Draft Blog there too.
Thanks
Yeah, I miss the Blogs of Note Section too. Otherwise, the new design is awesome: simple and clear.
I think you should export it to the settings and post creation too. It'd be a huge success!
YUCK.
I actively write about 6-8 blogs, so 2/3 of the time I go to blogger I now have an extra click.
I really don't like extra clicks.
Maybe show all blogs that have had activity in the past 2 weeks rather than just two?
shelly, john gordon: i definitely agree that the extra click isn't ideal when you're posting to a lot of blogs. your suggestions are great (always show N blogs, show all blogs active within past M weeks), and i'll be sure this feedback gets to the team. :)
Thanks, Taj!
The suggestion also made about Blogs of Note is a good one, too. :)
For me, the "My Reading List" area is a little small, especially with today's content. With only 15-ish lines visible at a time, there's a lot of *unnecessary* scrolling involved. Make it bigger!!!
It's looks spacious. But the old one also good for me that's why i'm not affected as you are.
Thanks for your hard working. With you, Blogger has been improved so much.
Finally i want to know if Blogger will be have ready comment form such as WordPress. As you know, there some hacks, but i want to use offical one ;)
Nice look.
But I would like a "Show Always" feature for the blog list.
For example, there are blogs that we use for test purpose and we don't *post* to them frequently. But nevertheless, we need to be able to go to that blog easily. Having to click on Display All Blogs every time would be bad.
Thanks,
ids.
As Shelly and others said, I also post to multiple blogs and also have "development" blogs for each live blog. They are used for testing new features, layouts, etc.
I'm not sure that I see a value added in the increased font size on the new dashboard.
With only the Profile in the column next to the list of blogs to manage (Tools & Resources, Help etc. at the bottom of the page) the Dashboard ends up looking like a big white blob when displaying all blogs.
Rather than the suggested setting where we could choose how many blogs to display, I would prefer having a check box to identify which blogs I want to "always show" and then a link to "display all".
Cool Dashboard, surely much smarter than previous but I am missing "Blogs Of Note".
t looks better, but I also prefer to see all my blogs. Allowing that as a setting sounds like a good idea.
wow...really nice...keep it!
Okay so far, but I'm not sold on it yet. The main blog list feels like something's missing, though that could just be because of the extra whitespace and the way that merges with the mostly-empty profile column. Feels a little washed out, since the white doesn't make a strong border. The text there got bigger as well -- a bit too big for my taste.
I'm sure I'm in the minority with 12 blogs, but I'm also in the camp that doesn't like the extra click. Maybe the list state (expanded/collapsed) could be sticky, so you don't have to click it every time?
And +1 on getting the draft and blogs of note blogs in the reading list. Sort of silly having tabs if there's only going to be a single "Blogger Buzz" tab. :-)
i wanna know any item can be added to the reading list in future? and in which format?
I was wondering if you could add a feature which would inform the user of any new comments posted on their blog entries(even older blog entries) .Right now,it is so difficult to keep track of comments that are posted.I almost miss the fact that someone posted a comment on one of my older entries unless i go back and browse my own blog entries.
Also,There needs to be an easier way to keep track of page visits.Using feedburner or sitemeter needs one to go there on their site and set it all up.It is just so cumbersome .An inbuilt sitemeter would be good.
I came here to complain about my hidden blog, but found a dozen people had beaten me to it. So, rather than just say "me too," I've blogged about it. It's a full critique explaining why hiding blogs isn't the right thing to do, with a proposal for what I think they should have done instead. Done right, very few people would have noticed the change and nobody would have complained about it.
Why is Blogger Hidding Things?
I have 30 blogs...
New look is better but
Showing only 2 is useless and the
xtra click make it worst.
I need to show my blogs by alphabetical order, not from most recent.
Thank's for the effort.
The new dashboard looks fine to me, I don't think the issue of an "extra click" is a big one. I'd prefer the most recently updated blogs showing first opposed to it being alphabetical, (or such an option). It doesn't really make sense to me that secondary or third blogs I never update in contrast to my main one are listed first, second, etc just because of their name.
I really agree however with "le cing blog" and his/her suggestion for a way to track new comments maybe from the dashboard, since it's not.. hard to do it with all the email notifications, I just wish there was a more hands on way.
Perhaps simply keep the blue font on the side of entries where it says [5 comments, 19 comments..] etc now, but add an addition where if someone posts a new comment, until you personally read/check it through the dashboard, the color changes to something different like red?
Example:
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/955/yeochal1.png
(Sorry it's so horrible looking! I think you'll easily be able to tell I'm not one of those cell shade artists.)
That'd be a pretty simple yet effective way to track new comments, I'd think (without heavily replying so much on email).
With a couple of weeks (?) now using the new dashboard, it's getting more and more annoying to click extra whenever I update. Because I'm not updating the most recent blog. I'm updating the other blogs. So after every new post, the two blogs showing on the dashboard change to reflect that and I have to keep clicking for all to find the next blog to update and so on. It would almost be easier and faster to just avoid the dashboard completely, go directly to the blog I want to update, and use the nav bar to click New Post from there. And I think bypassing the dashboard isn't really making effective use of the dashboard.
Having choices has always been what I love about Blogger and keeps it my favorite blogging platform. If I can customize my template to my heart's content, why not a bit of customization on the dashboard. :)
can you guys put back the post count on the dashboard of draft? Its very important for me, thanks
A lot cleaner now.. let's see how it progresses :)
Well, it's a change. Unfortunately for me, I don't like it.
It feels very counterintuitive to have to scroll down to see the BLugger Buzz area, and then have to scroll again inside that cramped area to view the text.
This also means that I have to pay much more attention to where my cursors is when I use the scroll wheel. If it's within the Blogger Buzz area I get confused if I intended to scroll the entire page, and vice versa.
I prefer a single continous page layout, without boxed in text with seperate scrollers.
/M
Another vote for displaying ALL blogs, not just those recently updated. I’d also prefer to see them in alphabetical order, i.e. in the same order in the list each time.
i'm with maskil
Where do we go to make enhancement suggestions?
I have many which I think many other people would enjoy as well.
Comment as:
1. Name /url
2...(google)
3....
4...
Thanks for your comments! I think we've addressed the biggest concerns. We've published this feature to the main Blogger site, so I'm going to close off comments here.
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