Perspectives

If you are on blogger and if you can rub your ass a little bit on the chair in front of your computer, there are a whole lotta things that you could do.

Blogger gives you the code ( template). Now what are you waiting for ? The kinda things that you could do is only limited to your ingenuity.

These are some of the things that I have done, instead of just stopping with choosing a template. The list is not exhaustive:

• Yahoo! Myweb 2.0 Badge that displays my saved links. I guess del.icio.us might have one too.
• “Save to My web” button. I put it there just for the heck of it. Oh btw, The Badge would take window.location.href ( which is yourblog.blogspot.com ). What you actually want is to let people save the permalink. So just replace the encodeURIComponent(window.location.href) in the generated HTML with <$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$> .
• Go to Feedburner . They let you burn your blog into RSS/atom ( They call it smart feed) feed. Now they you are letting them do this, they also tell you how many readers have signed up for your blog, what is the usage pattern etc. Now, blogger has APIs and you could do similar stuff too. Visit Blogger dev network for more details.
• Go to blogharbor if you want to convert your feeds to HTML (Javascript , actually). For instance, I write some stuff at my 360! blog