Although many Blogger's prefer to hide the nav-bar, I have kept mine in place for two main reasons:
- I blog about Blogger, and the nav-bar is a clear indication that my blogs are powered by Blogger.
- I find it very useful to have the "New post", "Customize" and "Dashboard" links available when editing my blogs.
Today I did a little experiment with the nav-bar, and now I'm seriously wondering whether this feature should be installed on any blog at all...
The Blogger nav-bar gives readers the option to view random blogs by clicking on the "next blog" link. In theory, this would be a great way to read the blogs of others, perhaps to discover a blogging treasure you may not otherwise have seen. So as a little experiment, I decided to flick through a few random blogs in this manner and greet some of the other bloggers I encountered.
However, I was rather disappointed (and somewhat shocked) to find that over half of the blogs I encountered were "adult" themed blogs. By this, I'm sure you'll understand the type of content I mean...
I consider myself to be open minded, and if people do want to publish adult content then that's up to them.
BUT:
- Anyone above the age of thirteen can create a blog, and there are no age restrictions on who can read a blog. So what is there to protect children from seeing this type of content?
- I don't want my blogs to be associated with spam/pornography! As I'm sure no other decent blogger does either!
Sure we can flag a blog to tell Blogger about the objectionable content we find, but what real difference will this make, unless Blogger can employ thousands to hunt down each and every splog to restrict the content?
Hide the nav-bar?
As I explained in this post, Blogger does not explicitly demand that its users retain the nav-bar. Indeed, when Ankit questioned the legality of hiding the Blogger nav-bar, he was told there there are no restrictions on doing this.
While I have the option of hiding the nav-bar, I wish there were no need to do this, as there are still benefits of using this. It would be far preferable if Blogger could offer the option not to include the "next blog" link, or provide optional restrictions of what can be accessed in the same manner as a Google "safe" search.
I would love to read your opinions on this issue, so please leave your comments below. For those of you who wish to restrict the content which can be accessed from your blogs, here is a working method to hide the Blogger nav-bar.
Technorati Tags: blogger | nav+bar | restricted | content | splog | spam
Blogger has officially said (from the house mouth) that there is no restriction to removing the navbar (although I distinctly remembered reading the term and conditions that must be present in blogspot.com blogs. That condition is no longger there.
ReplyDeleteThere have been a few bloggers (almost all educators) who thanked me for this post:
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I have a problem with this to. One of the reasons I've chosen to remove the nav-bar.
ReplyDeleteBut it seems to me that there are relatively few that actually have it removed.
I have hid the navigational bar on my blog just for that reason. I have seen those, and not too pleasant. I wish Blogger could remove the "next blog".
ReplyDeleteThanks,
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I didn´t hide my blogger navbar because...I don't know!
ReplyDeleteBut I never tried to see what came when I click on "next blog", but by this post, I´m afraid to try now... he he
maybe I will remove the navbar to soon...
I did a search a few months ago...and I know what you mean....
ReplyDeleteI will still keep mine....because it's easier to get back to my site using the dashboard in the nav bar....I would be very concerned if young children or teenagers were using my computer....
I am still considering whether or not to remove it... The nav-bar is so useful to me, I just hate the likelihood of readers finding something awful on the "next blog".
ReplyDeleteAnother thing which annoys me is that many of these adult blogs have removed the nav-bar, making it very difficult for readers to flag their blogs as inappropriate, which THEN would ensure Blogger attaches a warning whenever a reader tries to look at their page.
That gets on my nerves too. I wish there was a way for Google to not show adult themed blogs in the nav bar.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing that gets me is those blogs who completely remove the navbar from their template. I think if you remove it completely then you shouldn't be shown in the "next blog" link. In order for a blog to be shows it should have the navbar.
This feature would probably eliminate a lot of those "adult" and spam blogs since they've removed the navbar.
i have used the next blog button before to browse and ran into the same problem.
ReplyDeletelike amanda i was disturbed that those sites removed the nav-bar so i couldn't flag them. (what does blogger do about flagged blogs?)if there was some way to block them from my button i would use it in a heartbeat. since so many ads are targeted i was most worried that somehow i got targeted for adult themed stuff - i never look at that so i didn't know why there was such a high percentage showing up.
removing the nav bar didn't occur to me, but i use the links like you so i probably won't. but i haven't touched the next blog link since my 2 surfing attempts.
thanks for bringing this up!
thank your tips..I use your idea, but there way simple use this code:
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Me, I want to know how to basically re-create all the links in the blogger navbar, so I can put them in my own custom navigation menu (minus the "next blog" link). The part I don't know how to do is make a link that will take each user to his/her own dashboard, for example, when they click it--rather than just hyperlinking to my own, or something, which is all I know how to do at this point.
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