Don’t get me wrong, I’m finding that writing a weblog as a WordPress-hosted column is great; I can afford it for one thing *smile*. I get to do a bit of show-and-tell not otherwise possible, and this is rewarding, until I run into things that fall down, site-style-wise and could be made better by going off the WordPress reservation. My beef today is that when the small version of an image in the main text of my blog is clicked it takes the viewer to a larger version, which is good, displayed left-justified on a blinding white page which ruins the ability to see the image due to its glaring contrast; which is *not* good. Apparently, this is how Things Will Be, unless at some point I can find an affordable host site on which to load the WordPress software and my weblog. I see other folks customizing things with which I’d like to fiddle and it makes me think about how to make a transfer. Happily, a good list to work with is right on the LVS blogging blog in the Hall of Fame Student listings here, at Learn to Do It Right. Planning ahead for a swap makes a bunch of sense to me and this blog entry by Viki Nygaard goes along step by step towards the goal of easing into a new host without dropping off of the blogosphere radar to do so. Makes me a little impatient to try to spruce up my efforts, at least where I can remember the xhtml and css codings I haven’t used in a hamster’s years; alas, it will have to wait for a $erendipitou$ moment.
I *can,* however, Be Prepared by keeping the rss feed in my Live Bookmarks and learn from all of the posts on Learn to do it Right. Thanks, Viki!
Cheers!
pete
Hm. This is supposed to be an image presentation blog. Recent events have me looking about for pictures of former furry family members. Here’s Dare, with his own tiny pumpkin, lit within by a military surplus “grain of wheat” lamp, taken under incandescent room light (color balanced a bit in Paint Shop Pro 9+); he was not impressed with the pumpkin smell, lol.
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