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On August 14th Google Announced the release of a new version of Blogger called you guessed it Blogger Beta (is everything any Search Engine does always Beta?). We did not pay that much attention here at Comtech News as we keep focused mostly on stuff like SEO, Local Phone Service , Digital Music and HDTV. Besides we are pretty happy using Word Press as our Blog Platform with it’s open source and massive amount of free plugins.

Yet at the request of fellow Comtech Blogger Mark Barrera I took a look at the new Blogger Beta from Google and I have to say I was impressed enough to do a quick review of it here.

In Keeping with my recent review of Microsoft’s Office Live where I set up a play site for the African House Snake I decided to use the new Blogger product to set up the African House Snake Blog to accompany the site as a fun way to try out the new service.

Google’s Blogger Developers did a lot right on this one some new features I really like include…

1. A greatly expanded selection of Templates with a lot of simple adjustments you can make to several just by selecting a different version of it.

2. Simple ways to add new sections, links and images to your blog template, and control the way they display with simple drag and drop.

3. Once set up you now have tremendous control over the look and feel of your blog with simple clicks you can change your color scheme making your template truly your own.

4. If you have used blogger in the past they kept the core functionality the same so you won’t be lost setting up your new blog.

5. On the old blogger you had to “republish” with a second click after you saved template changes now when you save a change Blogger knows to republish for you.

6. Greater control for multiple users and to fight comment spam.

7. Provided an easy way to allow a user to set an image into the site Template in my case I used a cool Striped African House Snake.

In short Blogger Beta is pretty damn good and I think the term Beta is just here because everything Google does new is Beta it should simply be called Blogger 2.0 in my opinion it works better then the proven platform and is much easier for a novice user to set up, customize and use.If you are looking for a free blog that requires minimal technical knowledge that still allows for customizing I would have to say that at this point Blogger Beta is among the best.

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