Blogger (service)

Blogger is a blog - hosting service, which was founded by Pyra Labs and has now been bought by the search engine giant Google. The user must install to create your own contributions, neither software on servers yet mastered HTML, but still have the opportunity to influence the design.

History

Founded in August 1999 by Blogger Pyra Labs. 2003 bought the search engine company Google Inc. Pyra Labs and Blogger to. Google provided the means which Pyra needed. In addition, earlier paid premium features were free with Google's help. Less than a year later left Pyra Labs co-founder Evan Williams Google.

Google bought Picasa, an image software, in 2004 and Picasa photo - publishing tool has been integrated into Hello bloggers, which allows users to post their images to their blogs.

On 9 May 2004 Blogger returned with a new design, which was done in collaboration between the web design company Adaptive Path and stop design. In addition, new features such as CSS compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts and the posts were added by e -mail.

Functions

Blogger offers to host the blog on your own server with a Blogspot address as meinblog.blogspot.com. In addition, a separate domain name like www.meinblog.de be set up to access the hosted at Blogspot blog. By March 2010, blogs were also able to be installed on a freely selected by the user server ( FTP or SFTP).

Redesign

In 2006, all the blogs that have been created with a Google account, transferred to Google's servers. With the migration of some of the features have been introduced, such as: Labels, drag and drop the layout, permissions (Private Blogs ) and feeds.

Integration

  • In the Google Toolbar, the blogger button is integrated, with which it is possible to post either an entire website or just a selection on his blog.
  • Blogger for Word was a free extension for Microsoft Office with which it was possible to edit entries online and offline. In January 2007, Google said that this add -on is not compatible with the current version of blogger. With Microsoft Office 2007, it is possible to publish entries without the add -on to Blogger.
  • With Blogger, it is very easy to display Google AdSense ads.
  • With Google's blogging service multiple authors can work on a blog.

Blogger in draft

Blogger in draft provides a preview of unfinished items.

Criticism

According to a study by Sophos, a provider of security software, bloggers in 2008 was his domain blogspot.com the world's largest distributors of malicious programs.

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