An obsolete,non-functional dashboard; no one seems to get it

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An obsolete,non-functional dashboard; no one seems to get it

by Erik_theRed565 Jun 4, 2015 9:18PM PDT

I'm running Win 7HP on an Acer laptop ( Intel Celeron ), & AT&T U-Verse. I always use Firefox ( 38 ).

My blog is a blogspot dot com site. So it's blogger dot com, "now powered by Google". That automatically makes it doubly hard to pull the tentacles away, and rectify the situation.

It's a wasteland, I want to get rid of it, it's URL...ALL of it.

I've been all over Google product forums, blogger dot com forums, and just for $#!@s and giggles, to Wordpress, Mozillazine, and a few more, but I'll spare you that much. Suffice to say that no matter who has tried to help, all have been unsuccessful.

The reason that the blog and it's blogspot URL are still there, IMHO, is that none of the support can seem to get their heads wrapped around the main point. Again, that is only my opinion as a newbie.

The blogger dashboard I access is outdated, missing buttons and options that supposedly make it "simple" to totally delete my blog...that's been there for 5 years, and the dashboard says that "You are not an author of any blogs yet. Create one now and start posting!"

I've read about and saw pictures of what blogger calls their "new look" dashboard; the one that I am told makes my problem easy to solve.

Going in circles with everyone got old weeks ago. In the short time I have been a CNET member, I see forum contributors appear very knowledgeable here, so I've got nothing to lose. What to do?

If anyone has suggestions, advice, or OMG...a solution, posting it would put me in your debt. Thanks, CNET.

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Clarification Request

You wrote about many problems.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 5, 2015 11:52AM PDT

If you want a better control panel you would have to create your own website and code it as you see fit. Maybe that's the only exit for you here.

That is, if you want a triple barrel left handed 10 gauge shotgun, you might have to make one.
Bob

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Only one problem

by Erik_theRed565 Jun 6, 2015 7:04PM PDT

OK, then let me say this: I have had a "myblogtitle"@blogspot.com blog for over 5 years. I have barely used it, and I want to get rid of it. The dashboard is @blogger.com, which Google owns.

So, when I sign in with Google, ( you know...one account, everything Google ), the dashboard page comes up, and it is not the same one that blogger.com uses for instructional tutorials, etc. As well, the dashboard I see is apparently not the same one as all other blogger.com members have.

According to Blogger Help Forums, the dashboard that I DO NOT have "makes it simple" to delete your blog. I need that dashboard instead of the outdated one that I do have.

One problem. Simple to understand. At least, I thought so.

As far as creating a website, and coding it as I see fit...recall that this category is computer newbies. I have no idea how to do what you describe.

For the record, I AM left handed, and have at least a dozen guns. You can go ahead and build the triple barrel 10 gauge for yourself. I have one. I am not interested in getting rid of it; just the blog, thank you.

It apparently isn't the same one that

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do you have FTP access offered for it?

by James Denison Jun 5, 2015 11:47PM PDT

If so, access it in windows explorer using ftp protocol and just remove all you have in it. That won't get rid of cached data however that google may continue to show up in searches for a while, but evnentually even that will disappear.

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Wrong category

by Erik_theRed565 Jun 6, 2015 7:18PM PDT

Recall that this category is classified as computer newbies? Coding, FTP protocol? Just for good measure, I'll throw in VPN and proxies...ALL of which might as well be Latin for me. I am a newbie. I don't have a clue what all of these things are, or what they mean.

Thanks for the try, but as each day passes, I see that it may have been a bad idea to join these forums. You people are much too "smart" for me to communicate with on my level; newbie level.

I guess that, unless I can see eye to eye with someone here that may actually have the patience to explain things to a NEWBIE, I am a member at the wrong website.

After all, according to one of your fellow members, all I do is write "rambling messes" that make no sense to him / her, but that any elementary school student could comprehend.

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Say huh???

by Erik_theRed565 Jun 6, 2015 6:08PM PDT

Thanks for the "constructive criticism", and especially for the blatant impoliteness.

Your post helps me in no way whatsoever, so, unless you have some relevant information, you need not post in the thread anymore. I'll get the thing fixed, and I'll do it without your help.

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The question was in there somewhere.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 6, 2015 6:14PM PDT

Some folk need to vent. I read it once and didn't find a clear question except they wanted better tools. Or tools that worked.

There are lots of posts where folk have trouble deleting an old blog but that's so well hashed that why hash it again? Some may explode that no one can fix it save Google.
Bob

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mejustsayin · Answer 1 · Jun 5, 2015 7:45PM PDT

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say what???

by mejustsayin Jun 5, 2015 7:45PM PDT

if you were asking questions the same way you wrote your post I am replying to, there is absolutely no way anyone could make heads or tails of the point you are trying to make. It is nothing but a rambling mess with no real question.

If you have a question, please post it without the fluff and rambling.

Kees_B · Answer 2 · Jun 7, 2015 1:06AM PDT

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Re: problems

by Kees_B Forum moderator Jun 7, 2015 1:06AM PDT

As I read your post, I see that this is your problem: You log on to blogger.com and get an (old) dashboard that's different from the (new) dashboard that all other blogger.com members get. In fact, the screen you see doesn't even know you have a blog. Correct?

Then the most likely thing is that you use the wrong username to logon, or didn't logon to blogger.com at all. If you were logged on, you should be able to add a new post blog, shouldn't you - and since the site says you don't have a blog, you can't even do that.
So would it be right to reformulate your problem as "I can't access my blog"?

You can't be really be amazed that few or none of the people who come here don't know the details about logging on to that site and how the dashboard of that site works. And certainly no one here knows why the logon you use doesn't work the way you want. I'm afraid that their own support and their own forums are the only way to go.

Kees

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