Blogger silently made a change in the layout section

Edit: Everything turned back to normal a while ago. Don't know when, just checked it.

Today, I tried to make some changes on one of my blog's layout on blogspot. I noticed that it was not possible to put something under the header. First, I thought that this was a weakness in my hand-brain coordination. Only a couple of seconds later I realized that I am healthy but there was a change in the layout drag and drop functionality.

I am trying to guess the reasons for that change. Maybe this functionality is abused by some bloggers, who knows? Being able to put something under the header is a good way to bring a different aura to your blog. You could add additional navigation, flickr streams, etc.

On the other hand, when you do this, your blog looks like different than a blog on the first look. Let's confess, blogs do not aim to replace websites. They simply are weblogs.

Anyway, I am not going to defend this decline in functionality. This is a downgrade, a step back in blogger layouts. Maybe this is something temporary. We'll see.

Anonymous blogging on blogspot with your current Google / Blogger account

Edit: I investigated the issue a little more further and found out that there is no way anybody can identify you with this method. You can stay truly anonymous. Of course Google will know who you are since Blogspot is their business but anyway, this is no problem unless you publish anything illegal.

Edit 2: Problem with feeds... The publishers e-mail address can still be seen in the feed. However, I have also checked another Google account with no e-mail address in the feed. That's interesting but it renders my trick useless. That means no 100% anonymity.

I wonder if there is a way to do just that. I don't think that you can be fully anonymous unless you sign-up for a different Google account and blog with that account.

However, there are some other options for being at least virtually anonymous. Go to the Layout section under your control panel. Then go to blog posts section and click on edit. Next, untick the box near "posted by Your_Name" and save.

Next, on the left, you will see a box named "About Me". Here is a link to your blogger profile. Click on edit on this box and then click on remove in the pop-up window that will be opened. After you click remove, you will then have the About Me section of the blog removed.

You are now virtually anonymous. This can never provide you a full anonymity but it will prevent everyday people (who are not paranoid enough to find who you are) from understanding that this is your blog.

If you will use this, one thing would stop your game, this thing is commenting. You cannot comment without displaying a link to your blogger profile. To prevent this, you can also go sign-up for an open-id and use that to comment instead of your usual blogger account.

I don't know why anyone would need all this but anyway, this is a nice way to learn about what you can do with blogger and not. You are also learning about customization of this.