Will Google shut down Blogger?

Acquired from Pyra Labs in 2003
Integration with Amazon from 2009 to 2011

Shuts down 2XXX?

My guess, 2016

Or not.

Who knows.

Blogger Enables Switching Profile to Google +

It's easy to do. I read the details in this article on Tech Crunch, but basically once you are logged in to Google + all you need to do is go to

 http://draft.blogger.com/switch-profile.g 

and check the box to switch, and I have done it.

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Background Image in Blogger Templates

This is a screen-grab of the Blogger Template Designer.

I wanted to add a background image to this blog, which is easy to do. Just click on 'Background' and then click on the template you are using and that will bring up options to choose a background that is sitting in Google's repository, or to upload your own image.

I uploaded an image that was a plain color overall except for the printed words down the left side. I made the image and uploaded it.

Where were the words? I couldn't see them.

That's when I noticed something I had not noticed before.

See the little white square within the larger outline of a square? Mine was set with the white square at top middle. So the design was hidden behind the content.

I clicked to move the white square to top left and - Bingo!

How To Get Your Custom Domain Name To Direct To Blogger

I have just changed from pixelsatemyhomework.blogspot.com to the new custom domain that you can see in the URL address above.

Once I had bought the domain name, I directed the www. to the address to which Google required.

Problem
That worked OK but I saw that the non-www version of the site was simply directing to a parked domain at the address of the domain registrar (GoDaddy.com).

I read Google's information on the subject and I read various Question and Answers on lots of forums and they all seemed to think it was impossible to get around this problem or that curing it involved adding a piece of html redirect code in the 'head' section of the blog.

Solution
As I say, I registered this domain with GoDaddy.com and the way I solved the problem was to go into the domain settings at GoDaddy and order the non-www site to forward to www.

It has taken a few hours to propagate and it all seems to be working OK.