If you run your blog on Google's new Blogger Beta site, check out this code for a way to add a "Hao Hao This" link to your posts - making it easy for your readers to submit your stories to the Hao Hao Report
Similar to Google's service, this code is beta, and as such... you might have to fiddle with it a bit to get it just how you want. I tested it on a basic template in Blogger Beta and it worked.
Can someone please tell me why Google decided to create yet another coding system for Web design?
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J@GraniteStudio
2 years 12 weeks 1 day 10 hours agoIt works. It's not pretty, but it's there.
Ryan
2 years 12 weeks 1 day 1 hour agoYeah, I figured "functional" was better than "not at all". If anyone figures out a way to pretty it up a bit, please let me know. The fact that Google has created a seperate templating engine specifically for their service seems so retarded...
Chris
2 years 12 weeks 23 hours 38 min agoI have a theory on the Google question:
The code-illiterate (like me) were getting dangerously skilled with HTML, making our benign little corners of cyber-space almost habitable, without someone telling us how to make it all work. That makes Google feel unneeded, like a girlfriend who wants to cook for you but can't, so it did the next best thing, inventing an entirely new code (which is a mess) for us to struggle with, all in the hopes that we'll come crawling back to their applet. It's convenient, but like an automatic transmission or everyone in China, it wants you to do everything Its way.
Am I mixing too many metaphors here?
Chris
2 years 12 weeks 23 hours 30 min agoOh, and thanks, I meant to say, since I did ask about this the other day. And it does, in fact, work.
Ryan
2 years 12 weeks 6 hours 21 min agoHey Chris, I kinda feel the same way. I think really what it comes down to is that it rewards lazy (template) design and discourages modifications and originality. Switching to an open-source system like WordPress was the best thing I did for my blog.