 |
| Awesome, Inc. template |
In this post I try to change the text colors on my Google Blogger blog, and found a world of trouble and frustration.
By the time I finished this post I had uncovered several bugs. This is really long post, so I have decided to try create an itemized list of bugs up front with links to the part of the post in which I identify that bug. This doesn't work perfectly because I don't want to change the narrative flow and divide the text into sections by bug, but hopefully it helps. You can use these bug numbers later when you tell me my bug is spot on, not universal, completely wrong, or later fixed (Yay!).
Bug List
Possible bug titles for the bugs I discovered:- Sidebar and footer background color choices not set correctly (BloggerTemplateDesigner_Bug1)
- Gadgets on sidebar don't use background color option setting (BloggerTemplateDesigner_Bug2)
- Some UI elements not visually marked on the preview when selected in the list (BloggerTemplateDesigner_Bug3)
- UI element list in "Advanced" tab order is confusing order and should be grouped by location on layout (BloggerTemplateDesigner_Bug4)
- Default template designs should have minimum text contrast requirements (BloggerTemplateDesigner_Bug5)
- Can't edit text or background of date tab on posts (BloggerTemplateDesigner_Bug6)
Feature Requests
Besides the bugs listed above, my biggest complaint is that it took so long to figure out the correspondence between UI elements on the list and UI elements in the preview. If my BloggerTemplateDesigner_Bug4 is fixed that would help. As a feature request, I would like to be able to select items in the preview and have the relevant item in the UI list be selected.Exploring Blogger Text Colors
I just started this blog and didn't want to spend a lot of initial time worrying about the layout, so I chose one of the default layouts based on the "Awesome Inc." template and figured I'd worry about the details later.
However, there were a few details I decided couldn't wait.
