Blogger’s Dynamic Views are finally here. The first impression is great as it makes the blog look like a professional website. The look is clean and it even pulls out older posts along with its images letting readers pick out stories that might have otherwise been buried in the archives. However when you give it a closer look it seems to disappoint.
Magazine (Dynamic) view
The disappointment comes from the bloggers’ side because even if blogged in, it does not let the blogger do a quick edit from the post itself. It becomes cumbersome to go back to the dashboard and then do the editing. What more, you cannot preview your page. This is really upsetting. The captions for the images look the same size as the body of the post and the separation between them is very little. Bloggers who have hundreds of posts cannot go and edit all posts and put in a page break there, so they might as well stick to the old template, because it is easier to use.
Apart from that, the widgets (gadgets) have disappeared, taking along with them the followers, the About (the blogger), blog rolls, categories and all the other things that facilitated easy navigation to a number of other pages. It is true that the new look allows the reader to go to the ‘next’ and ‘previous’ page both from the top of the post and at the bottom as opposed to the older version, which only linked the two pages on either sides, at the bottom of the post.
Coming back to the widgets, it may not be able to have them on the new dynamic home page. That should be ok with most bloggers. However Blogger should not have gotten rid of it in the full-post pages.
The labels (tags) look like a part of the body of the post as they are in the same colour and font size as that of the post. The Dynamic looks do not allow customisation too. Thankfully it is not difficult to revert to the older template, if you have saved it.
Each time Blogger brings in new templates, they are almost always better versions in every way, perhaps that is the reason that this time it has been very disappointing.
