Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts

Oct 7, 2012

New Blogger interface - thumbs down

If you're a blogger like me, and you use Blogger to publish your personal jibberish on the world wide web, then you may be upset about Blogger's new interface. Yes, Blogger has warned us for the past year or so, that a new version was coming and they even offered the switch-over numerous times before it became mandatory. 

The new interface is handy for formatting text and linking within your blog posts but where it falls short is in it's picture embedding. If you rarely post images, you may not care. But if you're a photographer or really like adding pictures to your posts, you may find picture formatting options limited, and a real pain in the ass in general. 

I've been editing the html of my posts for the last few years. Blogger never allowed me to lay out my images the way I wanted to and so I had to go in and edit the code myself. Blogger's new interface claims to make picture layouts even easier, but I find it a whole lot more difficult. So, I decided to share with you, some very basic code which will allow anyone with even the slightest bit of coding know-how, to lay out their images the way they want.

Simply click here to download the code needed to layout your images as shown below. Open the file using Wordpad, Microsoft Word, or any text reader.  Then simply copy & paste the code into the html view of your blog post.  Depending on the width of your blog (the blog content width of my blog is 800 pixels wide) you may need to resize your images smaller etc.  Just keep the height & width of your images proportionate.  Hope this helps!

Jul 22, 2010

BON!

Yesterday was a big day for the this ol' blog. After receiving a bunch of comments on various blog entries I discovered that blogger had chose my blog to feature as a "Blog of Note" (BON).

At the moment I have managed to catch a bad cold, despite it being the middle of the summer. The comments that poured in yesterday and today really lifted my spirits! And I've been enjoying checking out the blogs of those who left comments on mine.

It's nice to know that there are people out there reading my random gibberish. My gibberish pertains, mostly, to biking, New York City and photography with a smattering of random foolishness mixed in here and their. At any rate; I give my thanks to Blogger and all of you people out there in the www. :]

Mar 26, 2010

Photoshop App for Iphone

I feel the need to give praise to the Photoshop Iphone app. With several fun effects, borders and image processing tools, you can turn your 3 megapixle Iphone images into something a bit more impressive. (Granted, they're still low resolution, high ISO snaps) Using this app in conjunction with the Blogpress app provides a lot more versatility for mobile bloggers. Below are a couple of interesting snaps that I processed on my phone and FTP'd to my site's server for posting.
Above: A homeless man on the corner of 103rd & Broadway combs his hair in a piece of broken mirror.
Above: A quick snap shot of my favorite subway car (R38).