>Blogger is canceling FTP publishing as of May 1, 2010. You’re only options after then is using a blogger sub-domain or a blogger custom domain.
I can’t say that I’m at all happy about this development. I like publishing to my own server and having the flexibility to run sub-folders and sub-domains as I like it. Being able to add some PHP code here and there is handy too. Doing a simple include and having your Apache server parsing .html files for PHP code makes it easy to add custom PHP widgets and give you blogger blog the flexibility of a wordpress blog.
There is less control for me and more control for blogger. It seems I’ll have to keep the nav bar, not something I want. Maybe there is an easy way to get rid of it but I couldn’t find it. Blogger used to have an option to turn it off for your own domain, not it’s no longer there.
I’m not switching to a custom domain. If blogger still wants to proceed then I’ll be going to a WordPress blog. It’s too bad. I’ve really enjoyed using blogger.