Problem adding photos to blogs

Good morning Bruce

Yes it is a problem and there seems to be no way around it. Years ago before there were new changes, I feel it was far easier to arrange photos in blogs, but now it is hard and you can spend countless hours, thinking it should be ok, only to find it turns out Shi......lol

It would be good to see if David could spend some time to sort this out so you can arrange photos in any location without making the text have a mind of its own.

Let's keep our fingers crossed....


Cheers


Stephen

Hi Bruce,
Just had a look at your blog and, apart from the spaces that you have inserted it all looks as it should be (more or less).

Thanks for your kind comment about the look of our Troopy blog but I should point out that that blog has been up for a long time and was done well before the most recent changes done by David to the blogs layout. In the "good old days" there seemed to be much more flexibility over where photos sat on the page, and we routinely resized our photos and edited out all the black borders. (NB By resizing I mean enlarging them after they were inserted in the blog.)Unfortunately that has largely been lost in the new upgrade. In particular the photo black borders are back, and on some of the large photos they look pretty gross but with so many blogs its too big a job to try to fix them up. Another thing I dont like is my inability to retain spaces between paragraphs, as such breaks make for much easier reading. I can do it in this forum reply (with some mucking about) but not it seems in a blog grrr!

I have posted a few large blogs recently and initially struggled to get the photos to sit properly on the page. I have found that the approach that seems to work best is to insert photos in blocks of 3 with no spaces between them. Any spaces seem to make the RH photo sit one space below the other two, as some of your photos are doing. Even so there seems to be the odd word or letter that sits in a small strip to the right of the RH photo. I no longer attempt to resize photos, but I do wish I could get rid of what I consider to be the ugly black borders.

David does a great job on this site and I would contact him to help you resolve your problems with your blog. But - sorry David, I think that from a readability and aesthetic pov the new format leaves a bit to be desired.

Cheers,
Val.

Hi Bruce
I have been trying to locate your blog, Explore OZ 2016, to have a look at the problem you are experiencing. However, I cannot find it.
Can you tell me where to look?
Rob

Sorry whoops.
My blog is "Around Oz 2016"
Bruce

Bruce & Others,

I can recall a post from Michelle that more or less stated that Word was no longer a good option, with what it did to photos.

Her recommendation was to use Notepad for blogs. I did this and I've still to load that particular blog. :-)

There were other hints for blogs, in the same reply, but sorry, I don't have a number for it.

Bob