Darnell Clayton » Web Errors

Blogger In Draft Plus Google Chrome Equals Fail Whale

darnell — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:59:00 +0000

Wow, talk about weird. Basically in Google Chrome (version 2.0.160.0) if you open up a previous post within Blogger in Draft (to edit), it “reinterprets” all of your previous text.

Example: Here is a post from one of my demo blogs of what your article should look like when logging into Blogger.com (in gChrome) when trying to edit a post.

And here is what it looks like in gChrome through draft.blogger.com:

I’ve tested other browsers (Firefox and Opera) and none of them are showing the same error.

Hopefully Google can take a look at this and fix it before they release 2.0 to the masses.

Blogger Fix: Inserting Star Ratings (For Custom Templates)

darnell — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:43:00 +0000

While it’s awsome to see Google unleashing new features within Blogger, if you are unable to implement them within your own blog, you may find yourself catching the dreaded “Google Derangement Syndrone” (aka GDS) where every other phrase is “Google is so Fraking stupid” (or something like that).

In order to avoid this contagious disease (which first broke out in Redmond, WA), you need to find solutions to problems–and today’s problem is implementing the star rating system within your customized Blogger blog (aka BlogSpot).

After logging into your blog, first click on Layout, then Page Elements.

Then scroll down to the Blog Posts page element, and click on the Edit link.

A new window shold appear. Next, check mark the Show Star Ratings box…

…then scroll down and rearrange where you want the star ratings to appear.

Save your changes, then click on the Edit HTML section (which should still be underneath the Layout tab).

Next you need to BACK UP YOUR TEMPLATE! I would recommend either copy & pasting your entire code within Google Docs or Note Pad (highly recommended) by clicking on the Expand Widgets Template box…

…then holding the Ctrl button while pushing the letter “A“, then the Ctrl button again while pushing the letter “C” and once over into Google Docs or Note Pad push the Ctrl button and the letter “V“.

You can also just simply download the template to your computer as well by clicking the Download Full Template link underneath the Backup / Restore Template section.

After backing up your template, scroll down towards the bottom left of the screen and hit the Revert widget templates to default link.

A “questionnaire” should appear (note: hey that rhymed!) informing you that this will change all of your widget changes, although your data will be safe.

Simply click the OK button to continue, then save the changes to your blog.

That’s it! Now you should have the star ratings system in your blog.

You will also notice a few changes with your blog layout, which you can easily correct since you wisely backed up your template (if went against my advice, then you are a ~~fool~~ person who doesn’t like taking my advice).

If you still have any questions, feel free to comment below. Enjoy!

Update: Inserted image for clarity.

Update 2: Also, for those of you trying to get the comment form working, Amanda has provided an excellent solution over here.

No Domain Love For Me?

darnell — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:31:00 +0000

I guess now I am receiving a 404 error when visiting my domain. Oh well…at least Google responded.

~Darnell

Update: And we’re back up!

Be Right Back…

darnell — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:29:00 +0000

This site should be back up before lunchtime is over (which means I have 30 minuets to correct a DNS error).

~Darnell

Update (5/3): Well, I was not able to fix it, but I did report it to Google, and they will take a look at it next week.

Another Blog Test…

darnell — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:40:00 +0000

Site will be down temporarily. Just resolving a semi-old DNS error.

Will be back up in an hour.

Sigh…You Can Hear Me, But…

darnell — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:37:00 +0000

You can’t see me. I am not sure if its the fact that GoDaddy hates this domain (which would be my name) or Google is refusing to cooperate with it.

I’ll see if I can resolve this, as this is getting to be a little ridiculous.

Has Google Finally Fixed The "404 WWW" Error?

darnell — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:51:00 +0000

Okay, I previously wrote about the “404 WWW” error in blogger here and here, but it looks as if the Blogger team has created an “automatic redirect” which means these hacks are may be obsolete.

I’m testing this out on my personal blog here first, and if successful I’ll do a write up for everyone else.

Warning: This site may get buggy real quick!

Update: Complete horror! I have sent in a trouble ticket to Google about this. So far it works for new custom domain bloggers, but leaves those who have previously registered as…well…screwed.

Sigh…I guess I expect too much from Google.

Google's YouTube Down?

darnell — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:49:00 +0000

It looks as if YouTube is down for the count (at least as of this moment).

Here is a screen shot of all that I get:

Just when I was about to save a really cool song from Sarah Mclachlan too. Sigh…

Update: It’s back up! Thanks Google!

Can You See Me?

darnell — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:02:00 +0000

Google (or rather Blogger) seems to be not showing my personal journal. Sigh…and I try so hard.

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