Some blog owners are accustomed to editing their Blogger profiles, from time to time.
Publishing a blog that presents oneself to ones readers, openly, is important to some blog owners. The Blogger profile becomes a blog component that is edited, periodically, to keep the blog reader friendly.
The Blogger profile editor produces content which is displayed in the "About Me" gadget, for single owner blogs. Multiple owner blogs, complementarily, display "About Us" - which provides a different display.
Google+ profiles are edited using the Google+ desktop - and Google+ desktop content does not display in "About Me", in Blogger.
"About Me" displays Blogger Profile content. Once you upgrade to a Google+ profile, you won't have access to the Blogger Profile Editor - and you'll have no way to edit Blogger Profile content.
If the blog has been upgraded, you won't be able to edit your Blogger profile.
If you can edit your Google+ profile, sufficiently, you'll be good. If not, you can work around the problem.
Just create your own custom "About Me" gadget, using a Blogger HTML or Text gadget. You can do this in under an hour.
Add an "HTML / JavaScript" gadget. That's how you start.
Use the Layout "Add a Gadget" page, add an "HTML" or "Text" gadget, and fill the gadget content with your profile. With a little work, you can make a gadget with as much detail as any Google+ page or profile.
- Desktop banner background / icon.
- Photos.
- Text.
- Video.
- Whatever interests you - and your readers.
With a little work and imagination, you can have a blog that looks like part of your Google+ desktop.
Owners of #Blogger blogs that use Google+ profiles want to edit their "About Me" gadgets - but find no way to do that. With a Google+ profile edited using the Google+ desktop, no "About Me" displayed content is produced.
Fortunately, it's not difficult to produce a custom "About Me" gadget.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/blogger/Ifg3aW2yMrg
Blog owners add the Blogger supplied Contact Form, then wonder about the details, and what options are available.
The Blogger supplied "Contact Form" gadget provides a very basic form, with few options. There's not a lot to do or see.
With the Blogger "Contact Form" gadget, what you see is what you get.
You add the form to the blog, and you change the Title of the form.
Use is simple. You fill out the form, and Send. The content, once sent, can't be edited.
The reply address is whatever you entered, in the "Email" box.
If you are the owner of the blog, the message goes to you. If the blog has multiple administrators, Send a test message, and have everybody check their Inboxes. Find out who should expect to see Contact messages, and what email addresses are targeted.
If you test the form on your blog, when using a Blogger account based on a non GMail email address, you may not receive the test entry in your Inbox.
If you, as the blog owner, want a form with more options, or the ability to manage form recipients, you use a third party form. You can use Google Docs, and create a simple "Contact Me" form, in 15 minutes. A Google Docs created form can have multiple, designated recipients, and can be edited by the sender. The Docs based form entry goes into an online database, which can be accessible by designated recipients.
You can embed a Google Docs based form in a page or post - and you can create your page or post as a separate tab, in the blog - as I added my Blogger "Contact Me" form or alternately, my Expanded Followers gadget, to this blog.
What you see below is my demonstration Google Docs form, embedded using an IFrame. The IFrame code is provided with the form, which required a brief 10 minutes to create. When you create your form, hit "Send form", then "Embed", to get the code for your form. You can see my improved Contact form, in my page, "Contact Me, Improved".
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JvoY2yf5aTChnvXlCgGsUerSCtI7RHpRdkq5SPBPm90/viewform?embedded=true" width="700" height="800" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe>
There are various third party, non Google "Contact" form suppliers - some free, others not - some reliable and safe, others not. Be careful, if you decide to use a non Google, third party, product.
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