Here's what Blogger has posted about new Blogger in Beta:

This morning's push marks a huge milestone for the version of Blogger in Beta - it's finally feature complete! Aside from its interface being available in French, Italian, German or Spanish (with more languages on the way), you can now publish blogs via S/FTP, a feature formerly available on the older version of Blogger. Beta's FTP functionality is significantly enhanced however -- it includes Label support! If you use FTP on the older version of Blogger, you should definitely log into the beta and set up a test FTP blog to make sure it can publish properly to your ftp server. We did a ton of FTP testing on several different popular hosting services, but if you experience any publishing weirdness, let us know via the Contact form -- use the "Report a bug or problem" -> "I found a bug with Blogger in beta" selection to send in reports, 'cause we wanna fix the bugs ASAP.Most importantly, the addition of FTP to the beta means that account migration will soon (like Really Really Soon) be available to all Blogger users -- it's currently just enabled for blogspot users. Thank you all for your patience with the recent outages and networking problems - they'll soon be a thing of the past!

Today we’ve reached another milestone in our transition to a better Blogger: all new accounts are being created on the new version of Blogger in beta. This hugely exciting for us, because now all new users will get the benefits of the new Blogger, the foremost among them being drag-and-drop template editing, post labels, and privacy controls.

I updated my blog after I upgraded and it was much easier to control things like color and template arrangement because Beta means that stuff is editable outside of HTML, which most people can't use. Adding the links on the side is super easy as well. Basically you don't have to be a computer genius and mess around with the HTML to change stuff.

You all don't have to upgrade if you don't want to, I just can't leave comments which is not the end of the world. I can still view everything and you can leave me messages on mine and I can respond that way.

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