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Recently, I’ve written a couple of posts which hinted at the problems I’ve been having since I was involuntarily upgraded to Blogger<\/a>‘s new platform and tonight was the final straw. For a while now, I’ve wanted to implement a category system for posts and a couple of months back I did actually start to tag my posts at del.icio.us<\/a> in preparation for following Peter Chen’s advice for creating Blogger categories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the delicious2Blogger (D2B) method does not work with the new Blogger<\/a> and to implement Blogger’s label system (in order to put a tag cloud on the site<\/a> using phydeaux3’s label cloud code<\/a>) I’ll need to upgrade my “classic template” to a “layout”. The problem is, that layouts are not supported for externally hosted sites that are published using FTP (like mine), so I’ll be stuck with my existing template, which has been broken since the upgrade.<\/p>\n

Seeing as Blogger seems to be so full of limitations and I’m in the middle of a site redesign anyway, I’m seriously considering a move to a WordPress<\/a>-based site – as long as I can preserve all the links and comments. I’ve also been having some issues with my hosting provider (and the fact that they have recently been bought by BT<\/a> doesn’t fill me with joy either) so I’m probably going to move away from them too.<\/p>\n

I’ll be trying to minimise the impact on blog readers and hope to maintain the domain name and all the links, but please bear with me if there are a couple of hiccups along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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