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Posted by: Chang Kim, Product Manager As you may have heard , things are starting to look a little different across many Google products—and today, Blogger is the next product to get a makeover. It’s been a few years since we made major updates to Blogger’s look and feel, and there’s a lot more to these changes than just shiny new graphics. We’ve rewritten the entire editing and management experience from scratch so it’s faster and more efficient for you—and easier for us to update and improve over time. Throughout the design process, we conducted user interviews to help identify how to make Blogger even easier and more enjoyable to use. We also watched users try our new interface and made many refinements based on their feedback. A streamlined blogging experience Whether you’re on a dashboard or settings page of blogger.com, you can always create or edit posts with just one click at the top of the screen. Additionally, the post editor has been expanded and simplified to give you a lar...

Posted by Brett Wiltshire, Product Operations Hello Bloggers! Over the last few days we’ve rolled out a handful of updates, all of which are available to everyone right now. Here’s the rundown: Favicon graduates from Draft As we announced on the Blogger in Draft blog earlier this month , we now offer an easy tool for creating custom favicons on your Blogger blog. We’re happy to announce today that this feature is now available to all Blogger users. Since the initial release to Draft, we’ve added support for all image types (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc) and will now automatically resize the image to the correct favicon specifications. You can add a custom favicon to your blog right now on the Design | Page Elements tab, via the new favicon element shown below: Swipe navigation for Mobile views Adding to the featureset of our new mobile templates , you can now navigate through your mobile view with swipe navigation. This new navigation option lets you swipe through individual blog posts in a w...