What is Blogger Dynamic Views - Electronic Gurudev

November 3, 2011 by Anchit Pandey

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Google has launched a brand new look for Blogger – Dynamic Views. These are basically seven new themes that are meant to revolutionize Blogger’s user experience. The new themes are built with AJAX, HTML5 and CSS, and are designed to create a new feel and look for both authors and users.

The new designs should be easy to implement and quick to load. It should take care of annoyances such as clicking the “next post” button at the bottom of the page every two minutes. With Dynamic Views, you get endless scrolling and dynamic loading of graphics as you go. As of now themes are not very customizable (only CSS or simply header image and background colors), but it should become more customizable in the following weeks.

As detailed in Blogger Buzz, these are the seven new themes. You can click on the link to play with each of them:

Classic (Gmail): Instead of clicking the “older posts” link, you get never-ending scrolling and images that load as scroll
Flipcard (M loves M) – Post images are tiled across the page and flip to reveal the corresponding post title
Magazine (Advanced Style) – An editorial style layout (similar to WordPress magazine layouts)
Mosaic (Crosby’s Kitchen) – A mosaic mixture of various sized images and text elements
Sidebar (Blogger Buzz Blog) – A view that looks like an email inbox with a reading page for “quick” scrolling and browsing through posts
Snapshot (Canelle et Vanille) – An “interactive pinboard” of blog posts
Timeslide (The Bleary-Eyed Father) – A horizontal view of blog posts by time period

How to Enable dynamic View For your blog?

Old Blogger Interface Users

Go To blogger > Design > Template Designer

Now you have 7 different layout options namely classic, Flipcard, magazine, mosaic, sidebar, snapshot, Timeslide.

Choose the one you like and hit the “Apply to Blog” button at the top-right corner

Done!

New Blogger Interface Users

log in to the Blogger dashboard, select “Template”, choose from one of the seven Dynamic Views, and then click “Customize” to access the Template Designer.

Advantages of Dynamic Views

This dynamic view has the best advantage of being compatible with all major browsers such as Mozilla, IE8 and Chrome and Safari. It also uses light theme that tremendously helps in reducing your blog load time. The layout are perfectly coded so each widget will remain at its position and wont interrupt neighboring widgets during load time. Stylesheet is the one officially provided by blogger and it rarely contains any image so again helps your blog to load quickly. Blogs with this feature enabled are better browsed, bookmarked and viewed even on smart phones.

Disadvantages of Dynamic Views

You don’t have complete control over the appearances of your widgets and post body. While applied most widgets stop working and are misaligned. No special attention is paid to sidebar section. All widgets get replaced or deleted. The sponsor area and subscription area disappears. Again applying it though provides you with main delightful bonuses but if you are running a professional blog with ads on it then better quit this feature. However if you are running a personal diary or non-commercial blog then you can surely go for it in order to let your fans enjoy different flavors of your site.

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