Some weeks ago Google introduced a new interface for their Blogger product. Like many new web interfaces this is highly interactive and does not work very well on a slow Internet connections. But unlike Fastmail, who have the option "Use classic interface" on the log-on screen, I have not found a way to switch Blogger to a simpler interface.
This evening I was blogging Ian Rankin's talk and Blogger's poor quality interface resulted in the loss of my post. I had to rewrite the post and send out a corrected web address for it.
Similarly Qantas, appear to have decided that they do not want customers who have slow internet connections, (presumably because these are customers with less money).
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Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Monday, November 19, 2012
Sunday, September 30, 2012
My Most Popular Web Pages
Since I started blogging in May 2008, there have been 423,112 page views of my 4407 posts. Some of the most popular are:
Most of the page views for my blog come from links withing the blog. The second most popular way to get to a posting is from a Google search. Most surprising is the third way: from the Whirlpool forum.
ps: While many people have read my posting about problems with my Huawei Android Smart Phone, Huawei do not appear to have. It is now eleven months since I returned the faulty Huawei phone and it has not been repaired, replaced or refunded. While the Australian Government may not want Huawei products used in the NBN for reasons of national security, I can see a more immediate reason to be cautious over the use of Huawei products: poor after sales service.
- Shipping Container Apartment Building in Canberra, Oct 15, 2009
- The Science of Diagramming for ICT, Aug 29, 2012
- Maritime Operations Defence Research Summer Vacation Scholarships, Jul 5, 2009
- Walter Burley Griffin Memorial Lecture2012, 2012 Sep 24, 2012
- E-learning to Reduce the Education Divide, Sep 21, 2012
- Birth of the National Broadband Network, Oct 14, 2009
- How the Google Online Courses Are Built, Sep 26, 2012
- Huawei Deuce U8520 Dual SIM Android Smart Phone, Sep 18, 2011
- NBN Symposium in Canberra, 9 October 2012 Sep 3, 2012
- On-line Professional Education for ANU, Sep 28, 2012
Most of the page views for my blog come from links withing the blog. The second most popular way to get to a posting is from a Google search. Most surprising is the third way: from the Whirlpool forum.
ps: While many people have read my posting about problems with my Huawei Android Smart Phone, Huawei do not appear to have. It is now eleven months since I returned the faulty Huawei phone and it has not been repaired, replaced or refunded. While the Australian Government may not want Huawei products used in the NBN for reasons of national security, I can see a more immediate reason to be cautious over the use of Huawei products: poor after sales service.
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Blogger Conversion Working?
Google is shutting down FTP support for its Blogger Blog service from 1 May 2010. But the alternative service appears to have some problems. The idea is that instead of my blog residing on my own web server at http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/ my postings would be on Google's server and accessible via http://blog.tomw.net.au.
Back in March I was having difficulty with the transfer to their new service. It seems I was not the only one and Google set up a new support service specifically to handle the transfer.
The Google support were able to help me with some of the problems, but not all. I was able to set up a sub-domain for the Blog, but not work out how to associate it with Google's site ("associate" is the DNS magic which then makes what is on Google's web server appear to be on mine ).
Google provided detailed instructions for a range of systems on how to make the changes. Unfortunately I could not find out how to do the association with my system. Also most of the Google instructions were about how to associate my whole web site with Google. If I did that my entire web site would disappear and be replaced with just my blog. The Google instructions had one step about the association and then another, with a note to say not to do the second step for sub domains. But it did not say what to do instead for a sub domain. After much head scratching over several weeks, I guessed that I did not have to do anything instead of the second step. Even so I was worried as one wring step and my entire web site would disappear.
After asking Google and searching around, I realised that I could not actually do the association myself and had to ask my web hosting provider. That only took a few hours for them to do.
I then activated the transfer process. This first offered me a backup of my blog (which I took), then set up the new location and lastly added redirections at the old location. The process went reasonably smoothly. However, each time I stopped and went back to check I had entered the correct new address for the blog, the screen reset to default settings and I had to reenter the sub domain. Crossing my fingers I finally confirmed the conversion. This then went smoothly over a few minutes: the blog was at the new location, my web site was still there are the redirections were at the old location.
However, the next day I find that the new sub domain is not working reliably. I get '"blog.tomw.net.au" could not be found.' most of the time. The postings are still at the old location, but after 30 seconds these are redirected to the new location where they are not found. Of course if you are reading this via the new blog address, then it must have been fixed.
Back in March I was having difficulty with the transfer to their new service. It seems I was not the only one and Google set up a new support service specifically to handle the transfer.
The Google support were able to help me with some of the problems, but not all. I was able to set up a sub-domain for the Blog, but not work out how to associate it with Google's site ("associate" is the DNS magic which then makes what is on Google's web server appear to be on mine ).
Google provided detailed instructions for a range of systems on how to make the changes. Unfortunately I could not find out how to do the association with my system. Also most of the Google instructions were about how to associate my whole web site with Google. If I did that my entire web site would disappear and be replaced with just my blog. The Google instructions had one step about the association and then another, with a note to say not to do the second step for sub domains. But it did not say what to do instead for a sub domain. After much head scratching over several weeks, I guessed that I did not have to do anything instead of the second step. Even so I was worried as one wring step and my entire web site would disappear.
After asking Google and searching around, I realised that I could not actually do the association myself and had to ask my web hosting provider. That only took a few hours for them to do.
I then activated the transfer process. This first offered me a backup of my blog (which I took), then set up the new location and lastly added redirections at the old location. The process went reasonably smoothly. However, each time I stopped and went back to check I had entered the correct new address for the blog, the screen reset to default settings and I had to reenter the sub domain. Crossing my fingers I finally confirmed the conversion. This then went smoothly over a few minutes: the blog was at the new location, my web site was still there are the redirections were at the old location.
However, the next day I find that the new sub domain is not working reliably. I get '"blog.tomw.net.au" could not be found.' most of the time. The postings are still at the old location, but after 30 seconds these are redirected to the new location where they are not found. Of course if you are reading this via the new blog address, then it must have been fixed.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Google Blog FTP Shutdown
Google is shutting down FTP support for its Blogger Blog service from 1 May 2010. However, so far I am unable to understand Google's instructions for migrating to an alternative service.
The current service, which I use for two blogs, allows me to create postings using Google's Blogger software, which then posts the resulting entries to my own web site.
FTP causes support problems for Google. As an alternative they are offering a service where they will maintain the content on their own service, but accessible from a sub-domain on my site. So instead of the current http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/ my postings would be at www.blog.tomw.net.au
The Google alternative sounds reasonable (FTP seems to be slow), but I can't understand the instructions provided. Google provide a migration tool which I can't get to work. I can't find a written description of what the tool does, just a video. There are no instructions for creating a sub-domain, just a domain and even there there are no instructions for the popular CPanel interface which my ISP uses. It seems likely that if I followed the instructions given, at best I would end up making my web site inaccessible, and replacing it with just my blog. In place of the usual online support, Google provide a Google Docs form with everyone's site listed.
Perhaps I am asking a lot for a free service, but I do have web ads on my blog pages and Google is probably making several hundred thousand dollars a year from these, so I do expect a little service.
The current service, which I use for two blogs, allows me to create postings using Google's Blogger software, which then posts the resulting entries to my own web site.
FTP causes support problems for Google. As an alternative they are offering a service where they will maintain the content on their own service, but accessible from a sub-domain on my site. So instead of the current http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/ my postings would be at www.blog.tomw.net.au
The Google alternative sounds reasonable (FTP seems to be slow), but I can't understand the instructions provided. Google provide a migration tool which I can't get to work. I can't find a written description of what the tool does, just a video. There are no instructions for creating a sub-domain, just a domain and even there there are no instructions for the popular CPanel interface which my ISP uses. It seems likely that if I followed the instructions given, at best I would end up making my web site inaccessible, and replacing it with just my blog. In place of the usual online support, Google provide a Google Docs form with everyone's site listed.
Perhaps I am asking a lot for a free service, but I do have web ads on my blog pages and Google is probably making several hundred thousand dollars a year from these, so I do expect a little service.
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