As you have known from my previous post, I set my new home at blogger, because I needed more customization.
At the very beginning soon after my switching, I only moved all my blog posts to my new blogger address. I kept my photo blog separately and linked these two blogs to each other. I also added another blog for my coming writing stories. But a few days later, I realized that it was such a big task to modify all blog templates at one time! – those three blogs were in the same style with different scheme colors. So I decided to integrate all my stuff as much as possible into my blog. However, the real reason for me to move all my other stuff together into the same blog was my recent template changing.
I thought my previous template color scheme was too "glorious" to be harmony with my randomly linked pictures. Now, changing my template via CSS/html on blogger is so easy for me, if only I have a basic idea of how my blog will be look like.
When I done my template, I started to move my stuff and add some useful widgets/scripts. In fact, it was even better than I expected when I at last done. Although I took some time to figure out the arrangement of my photos, I think my current decision isn't bad. Now, I also need not to post every photo when I post a new photograph series any more! On the other hand, I re-uploaded all my wallpaper works to picasa – I loved My Opera's photo service, but it doesn't allow me to move/copy photos/albums as free as I can do on Picasa. – for my art work parts, I used the same arranging style as photos.
I modified my blog title as well. I added "音時雨" before my previous blog title, which was "Fairy Aria". Now I'll explain my thought.
"音時雨" is read as "oto.shigure"; "音" means "sound", and "時雨" means "light shower especially those in late autumn". However, I've already forgotten how come I decided to add this. But… who really cares? :P
Also, to celebrate the rebirth of my online home, I even got a new last.fm account, which is under the same account name as this blog. Thanks to a nice script, I was able to export and re-import my listening history from the old last.fm account to the new one. Sweet!
In this very morning (of June 29) I added an archive-calendar, a page-navigator, as well as a real archive generating stand-alone page into my blog. In the evening, I installed a code to display related posts. Oh, man! Blogger has so much nice widgets and hack codes!! I was so excited!!!
That was my story of the revive of my blog. Because blogger is free to do almost anything, you may get it to be like any other service if you want! Blogger, you're so awesome!