Blogger Updates: View Blog in 5 Different Ways for Public Blogs

Blogger now offers to all users the ability to present your content in several new and exciting ways.

from blogger help

How to enable the dynamic menus for your blog?

1. Blog is public.(readers will not sign in to view your blog)
2. In the SETTING>SITE FEED tab, enabled either Full or Jump Break for your Post Feed.

Click Settings

choose either Full or Jump Break

3. In the SETTING>FORMATTING tab, the option for Enable Dynamic Views is set to Yes.

Choose Yes

 If you haven't followed this simple steps, readers/visitors/users who attempt to use dynamic views your blog will be taken to the landing page and redirected to your original blog in just a few seconds.

Blogger Platform currently offers five ways to view as dynamic for public blogs if it's allowed by the blog author.

You can also view here: websiteurl/view, e.g http://jomarlipon.blogspot.com/view/
1. Flipcard, go to blogurl/view/flipcard

Flipcard

• Mouse over any of the cards to see the post title and comment count. As you scroll down, additional posts will continue to load. 
• Click on a card to see the post in full view. You can navigate through the posts using J (older post) and K (newer post) or the arrow keys. Hit escape or click Back to all posts to return to the Flipcard view.
• In the upper left, click to sort by Date, Author and Category.

2. Mosaic, go to blogurl/view/mosaic

mosaic

• Clicking on an individual tile will expand that post to the full width of the view, and clicking again will collapse the post back into its original position.
• The exact position of the tiles is randomly determined each time the blog loads, but they will appear chronologically from top left to bottom right.
• Once a tile is expanded, you can page down by using the "up" and "down" arrow keys as well as J and K.
• This view is optimized for the tablet viewing, and supports screen rotation.

3. Sidebar, go to blogurl/view/sidebar

sidebar

• Optimized for quick reading and browsing.
• Left sidebar is list of chronological posts, with comment counts and thumbnails for individual posts.
• J and K arrow keys will navigate through the posts, and comments can be displayed on the same page by clicking the Show link

4. Snapshot, go to blogurl/view/snapshot

snapshot

•  This view will display only the posts which have images.
• Clicking through any photo will display the full post page, with naviagtion links at the bottom for Newer and Older posts
• Mousing over any photo will display a post snippet

5. Timeslide, go to blogurl/view/timeslide

timeslide

• This view breaks the blog content down into three different areas:
• Left column: Enlarged picture with a post snippet, title, and snipppet displayed in chronological order
• Middle column: Displays just the post title and snippet
• Right column: Displays just the individual post titles
• When searching for posts in this view, the results will be highlighted.

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