History of blogspot

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was crted by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. erally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via custom URLs.
History
On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the rliest dedied blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Googleunder undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium ftures (for which Pyra had charged) to become free. In October 2004, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google. In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hellointo Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs.
On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding ftures such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, named "Invader", alongside the gold relse. This migrated users to Google servers and had some new ftures, including interface language in French, Italian, German and Spanish. In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of of unique visitors in 2007.
Redesign
As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account were migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the service is now more reliable because of the quality of the servers.
Along with the migration to Google servers, several new ftures were introduced, including label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, rding permissions (to crte private blogs) and new Web feed options. Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files.
In a version of the service called Blogger in Draft, new ftures are tested before being relsed to all users. New ftures are discussed in the service's official blog.



Screenshot of blog post compose window of Blogger, April 2012
In September 2009, Google introduced new ftures into Blogger as part of its tenth anniversary celebration. The ftures included a new interface for post editing, improved handling, Raw HTML Conversion, and other Google Docs-based implementations, including:
Adding loion to posts via geotagging.Post time-stamping at publiion, not at original crtion.Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, per-blog preference.Link editing in Compose mode.Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both and Mac OS.New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view.Placeholder for tags so that embeds are movable in Compose mode.New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons. Also added was the full justifiion button, a strike-through button, and an expanded color palette.
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor.
Available languages
Blogger is available in these languages: Arabic, Bengali, Indonesia, Buarian, alan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korn, Laian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Available designs
Blogger allows its users to choose from various templates available,and fully customize them. Users may also choose to crte their own template using CSS. The new design template, known as Dynamic View, was introduced recently. It is built with AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3. The time for loading is 40 percent shorter than traditional templates, and allows user to present blog in seven different ways: classic, flipcard, magazine, mosaic, sidebar, snapshot, and timeslide. Rders still have the option to choose preferable views when the blog owner has set a default view. Some of the widgets (e.g. Labels, Profile, Link List, Subscription Links, Followers and Blog Archive etc.) are available for Dynamic Views. Other templates are chosen by the blogger.

From Satyam Sinha