Trouble was we lost some things by adopting it. We lost a working search box and our label cloud. What the heck is a "label cloud"?
A label (some blogging hosts interfaces call labels "tags") is a subject term that you manually add to your post to help blog readers find groups of blogs about a particular subject. If your post is about water levels or Ste. Marie II, then you add the labels "water levels" or "Ste. Marie II" to the posts. The cloud of labels shows any labels that have been used and more importantly, for labels that are used more than one time the size of the label in the cloud is proportionally larger. Labels used twice are larger than those used once and those like Cahiague or Champlain are huge. This gives an easy to recognize visual cue as to how much information is on the blog on the that label subject. If you click the label on the label cloud, the blog changes display to show only the blog posts that have that label. It is very handy.
With dynamic view we lost both these elements. Dynamic view appears to be better suited at least for now to blogs that emphasize posts with one photo and to the latest and greatest posts not the whole posting history of the blog.
We will monitor dynamic view template improvements and see if down the road it is improved and becomes more suited to our kind of blog content. We would llike to use it because it is very cool and enriches the user experience but right now it shortchanges a couple of key user elements that we cannnot lose. So back to the old view.
to see what the dynamic view template looks like see, my experimental blog set up in blogger at this location. there are six different flavours of the dynamic view with a default setting, when we had this template set up for the Huronia Chapter OAS blog we chose magazine view.
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