Bloggeratto

I just wanted to wish all of you a Muy Feliz Año Nuevo, full of prosperity.

I am looking forward to 2007 as a year of great new ventures and new paths to walk on.

Tomorrow i will move Bloggeratto to the new Blogger in Full form along with a new look (nothing drastic, just a "upgrade") that will thrive until the final look for Bloggeratto fisrt anniversary.

Thank you all.

I was shocked by Ramani New NEO template and i was truly lucky to be at the time he unveiled it. the very second it was posted to be seen.

It is the FIRST Completely reworked and truly hacked template that uses the New Blogger engine and that is outlined by JSON and that works in a true Asynchronic form.

Some of the people i asked about the template tought that it was not as innovative as i was telling it was, they of course don´t have a clue how much work has to be put into it, and needs to be put into it to maintain it working flawlessly.



Now, it also marks a another first, because it is the first Ramani work in Blogger that you cannot get for free, that is true, but is also Ramani biggest work to date, and he is not offering just the code for a 10 dlls fee, you will get:

*Full installation of the template
*Support
*Previous Template Add-ons ported to your new Template
*Upgrades
*New Features adjusted for the template.

So, considering what you get i think it is a great deal.

If you are interested in it, just go to this post:

Neo - The lightning fast blogger beta template

The first completed came to be by pure extension of what had originated the idea, and that was the original Native Search made by Aditya, so i can only guess that the minute aditya saw that i was asking for a new version, the minute he got into it because this was one of his most beloved hacks.

So, now you too can have this improved search in your blog,and the best of all is that is you got the H.P Blogger navbar or the navbar as it is, now you have two option to do your blog search, and that alone is worth it. in my case i like this search because it allows you to find the post you are looking way faster that making a regular search in the Blogger navbar, you get the search resultst in the same way you get them while searching google or live search without leaving your blog and without having to fiddle with the entire post reaload like the regular blog search built in the new Blogger.



this version has the added bonus of displaying the results in inputs of 10 at a time, and offering pagination depending on the number of results and changing from page to page in a very swift way.

You can test it in this blog search and if you like how it display, then go and grab the finished version at Aditya´s post.

Native Blog Search improved!

This development is part of the Ideas Post call i did to the Bleet and beyond, as a way for anyone brave enough to take on a challange had something to munch on.

And Stephen as the man how is the definition of what Bleet stands took upon on making Lightbox GW work for Blogger.

Now, what it is Lightbox GW and why is better than the regular lightbox script, and that is because they can contain media on them, just like MS has took them back and they are using them in Soapbox in the best way i have seen yet, or how you can see Digg also using them now for they video redistribution, all of that is done by Simi-Modal windows, why they are called like that and where does this comes from?

The short version of the story is that someone that were doing web developments for displaying in IE got to do what he denomined as Sub-Modal windows, windows that didn´t neede to open a new browser window, but that opened inside the already opened window, but that were not really a window, but more like a evolution of a prompt dialog and the objective was to save transitions and to mantain the concentration of the user.

But this is not truly Sub-modal on the technical terms, but on the look of things that is really something you would don´t know just from seeing it works, so it is is more of a simil, hence the simi pfrefix, it is also called semi or quasi, but i preferend simi.

This never catched up at the time it was created, but thanks to Lokesh that did Lightbox the guys at Particle Tree went with the idea and developed Lightbox GW based on it.

Now, this can be a GREAT feature if used well, and it really represents for me what the new web must be. so please take a look at it.

So, that is all the story, now you only need to go to Singpolyma post for the code and details.

I will be sporting it in Bloggeratto very soon and talking more about it.

Lightbox Gone Wild for Blogger

This is a great and very quick tip from Hoctro for when you need to paste code in your posts, and to allow anyone to lift it up from them without any effort.



Presenting Your Code to the Readers

As you may all know by now, Del.icio.us put up a new widget called the "tagometer", and if you haven´t read much about it, you can go and look at it.



Si, as usual when something like that happnes, Imp, got into a How Yo mode, and coooked up a tutorial for everyone to read if you are choosing to use this little widget.

Delicious Tagometer howto: manual mode customisation, code

I want to wish everyone Feliz Navidad and leave you with some photos i recollected over the internet that show a little flashy bit in the night of how a Mexican Christmas is in Mexico City.

If someone had told me a 3 months ago that a CAT, was going to be worthy of being a Bleet so fast i would have called them crazy, but what do you know. it not only was a Cat, but a purple one that made it.

So, without much to Add, i am very happy Purplemoggy ported this singpolyma hacka, that remains one of my favorites from him and now is going to be usable in the new blogger..

This is a important hacks becuase it add personality to the comments, and it allows you see very quick who is commenting on your blog.



See?, cool as ice (yeah, a bad 90´s pun, sue me)

Comment Author Photos

Proving that he is all about choice, Hoctro bring us one more interitions listng contents, how about having the spread by list but in categorized lists?, and having them do that in a autmatic fashion?

Yeah, it Rocks.

and you can even have them in two forms:

1.- Sidebar



2.-In-Main



Whats not to love?, all thanks to the power of the json feeds..

Killer Hack: Contents By Category

Always nice Annie got worried seeing ugly blockquotes and in a true Bloggerosphere Public service, she wants to tell you how to make them prettier.



what more i can say?, nothing!, so please go and spice those blockquotes:

Pretty Blockquotes