I just skimmed Freshblog’s complicated three-part series on adding categories to Blogger blogs using a combination of del.icio.us and javascript. I’d like to add my own tutorial on adding categories to your Blogger blog:
- Switch to WordPress
That pretty much covers it. My one-step process will solve all of your problems.
Unfortunately, the comments are off over there so I can't leave a note of appreciation!!
Update 2/3: Alright... Clearly my attempt at dry & ironic didn't translate into prose, so a debate has developed and clarification is required. To be clear: This is a categories solution, but not one that I advocate. As some commenters have pointed out, Wordpress have categories pretty much nailed, but there are limited options for template editing, and for customising your blog... Obviously I believe the advantages of the del.icio.us system (custom & multiple tags, exposure on tag search engines, interactive output thanks to FreshTags) and the tools that have been developed to integrate tagging (most especially Johan's script and the BlogThis! extension that adds tags) make it worth the effort to stick with Blogger. If I could afford hosting I might consider WordPress, but blogger is the platform of choice for those of us who want to blog for free.Which brings up WordPress.com. Your URL is going to be a subdomain either way, so why not go w/ the platform that has the most custom options?
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its tiresome to first define your categories, and then when you want to make a post which doesn't fit into any of those, you go and make a whole new one! its much to just tag it at del.icio.us, and at the end of every month, run through your tag list and see which one seem alike, and just rename them!
with wordpress, the customization capabilities are too limited for me to be able to work and blog properly! a blog is almost like a persons identity online ... and i don't want my identity being decided by someone else! thank you very much! :P
isn't that what were looking for in a blogging service...?
I think it will help bloggers a great deal.
I hope all those who are concerned think about it.
Anyway if it is not help.blogger.com then it is blogfresh.blogspot.com both are synonmous to me