Blogger sites have five new, dynamic ways of presenting posts to visitors

If you want to create your own website without the hassle of renting server space and setting up the site yourself, there are a number of easy-to-use solutions. Wordpress, Tumblr, and Posterous are a few of the choices, but one of the most popular and oldest is Google’s Blogger platform.
Google has been putting more effort in lately to improve Blogger with new features such as integrated Google Analytics, the ability to follow by e-mail, and a much more flexible template designer. But the most recent update is both visually appealing and completely effortless for blog owners to take advantage of.
Now Blogger sites have five new, dynamic ways of presenting posts to visitors. As well as the standard heading with text body view, users can choose to see the content presented in five visually appealing and different ways if the website owner allows them to, of course.


The five views on offer include:

• Flipcard – presents each post as ordered cards represented by post image that flip to text
• Mosaic – creates a mosaic of posts with differing sized images filling the browser window
• Sidebar – lists all posts on a scrolling sidebar with the main view showing the active post
• Snapshot – shows posts like photos with one-line introductions
• Timeslide – breaks the blog into 3 columns showing posts in chronological order

Each one offers a slightly different layout, with some only appealing if your blog is image heavy. There’s also dynamic updates based on search terms that limit how many posts you see in a given view. Regardless of which you like and choose to use, there’s no adjustment to make to the way you write and post content, Google has made it all just automagically work.
If you already have a Blogger site then seeing each of these views couldn’t be easier. Just visit your site’s homepage and then add one of the following after the URL to load the new view:

• /view/flipcard
• /view/mosaic
• /view/sidebar
• /view/snapshot
• /view/timeslide

The only prerequisite for visiting a site running these views is an up-to-date browser. That means the latest version of Safari or Chrome, Firefox 3.5+ or Internet Explorer 8+.