New Features in Blogger : Add customized search box, change template fonts and colors and enhanced editor

Willa!!! Blogger is getting better day by day and I am happy to see this; Today when I am trying to post an article on blogger templates, suddenly I found some small exciting changes for which I am looking from a log time. In this post, I will tell the new features and the features that I have observed just an hour ago.

1. Add Customized Search engine to your blog: You can add this gadget from Layout > Page elements page of your blog. This is one of the best tings blogger has update; till toady bloggers used customized code for personal search search engine of their blog. Blogger did a good thing in providing this feature by itself.

The Good and Bad:

• It is an ajax script, and hence the time it takes to load the pages is very fast. The results appear in the main wrap of the blog.
• You can show the results from your own blog, from Google and linked from here (Searches the pages you've linked to from your blog posts).
• There is preview in the gadget itself and, you can test your it there only.
• The bad thing is many rely on Google customized search for increasing their ad revenues from Google adsenses.But now you can't keep this ad code in the blogger provided gadget.
• The resulted pages will be opened in a new window; there could have been an option for choosing whether to open it in the same page or in a different page.

2. Change Template Font and Color: The Bloggers always fond of using the new template. The bloggers including me faced a bit difficulty in changing the colors that matched the template and the fonts required for different parts like blog title, post title, description etc.


The Good and Bad:

• You can use this feature from Layout > colors and fonts option of your blogger. The good thing about this is you can immediately see the preview of your template and also there is an option to "revert to default template".
• An extra option of shuffle blog colors simplifies the work further.
• After doing everything and seeing the preview, you can either save the changes to get the new colors for your template or clear edits to keep the old blog template itself.
• You can keep the palette either in the same page or use pop-up option to open the palette in a new dialog box.
• A handy feature Colors that match your blog will suggest you better colors.

The enhanced editor has been changed completely, so it will be better for me if I post about it in a new post. We are awaiting to see more from you Mr. Blogger!