The More Tag

Originally when I started using blogger, it was very primitive and it did not have the equivalent of wordpress’ more tag. One had to use a hack to be able to show only summary on first page. I had to use something like span=fullpost (sic). This caused big problems when I imported my old entries. This caused the page to look very funny, although individual entries were OK. I noticed this first in Internet Explorer. Google Chrome and Firefox were both smart enough to render the pages correctly.
Solution : After you import, go to HTML view in the blog editor (I use built-in blog editor on wordpress.com, if you use other editors, details may vary, but the principle remains the same), and remove the span tags.

Italics Tag

Blogger once again used span style:italics(sic). One of the problems with span tag is that it may interfere with other span tags. While this may not pose any problem it and of itself, I preferred cleaner approach Wordpress uses that of em tag. I manually replaced all the span style=italics tag with simple em tags.

Other Issues

There were other issues mostly related to embedded images. Again, this did not cause any visible problem. But I think Wordpress’ implementation is far better. These issues also attribute to my being new to blogging few years ago. (Hopefully) I’ve learned a thing or three since I started using wordpress.

Features

• Login using your OpenID – If you use Blogger, LiveJournal, Wordpress or Even Flickr, then you already have one
• Allows you to add multiple blogs
• Allows to use several URL shortening services – You choose which one to use
• Allows the a small prefix text for your Twitter updates before the update
• You can choose to show
  • Just the Title OR
  • Title and Description of your article on Twitter
• Fool proof
  • Checks whether your twitter login works
  • Checks whether your feed URL is correct

Overall, Simple and Effective. Give it a try at http://twitterfeed.com/