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Most Frequent Blogger Questions

MFBQ

Most Frequent Blogger Questions

I don't know more than I know--sometimes I know even less!
Click to see the incredible list, All The Things I Don't Know! If some portion of this blog is unreadable in Firefox, Internet Explorer, or whatever, tell it to go to hell then try another browser!!!

I don't know more than I know--sometimes I know even less!

Click to see the incredible list,

All The Things I Don't Know!

If some portion of this blog is unreadable in Firefox, Internet Explorer, or whatever, tell it to go to hell then try another browser!!!

EMERGENCY STEPS

Kick-starting The Blog
1. Refresh (F5) or Ctrl-F5 2. Clear cache (delete temporary Internet files) and cookies in Tools-Internet Options. 3. Add a question mark to the end of your blog's internet address in the address box and see if it will show the latest update. (Can also be done with other people's url's in the address window.) 4. Republish (if in classic Blogger) 5. Reboot 6. Log out and log back in again (may change to an untroubled server) 7. Change or reload the browser (IE, Firefox, others) 8. Try a different computer, or see if you can duplicate the problem or avoid it in a post in another blog (make a test blog, whether in the same account or a second account, that's not public so nobody will see you screwing around!) ---Not necessary to do all of these at once!---

Kick-starting The Blog

1. Refresh (F5) or Ctrl-F5
2. Clear cache (delete temporary Internet files) and cookies in Tools-Internet Options.
3. Add a question mark to the end of your blog's internet address in the address box and see if it will show the latest update. (Can also be done with other people's url's in the address window.)
4. Republish (if in classic Blogger)
5. Reboot
6. Log out and log back in again (may change to an untroubled server)
7. Change or reload the browser (IE, Firefox, others)
8. Try a different computer, or see if you can duplicate the problem or avoid it in a post in another blog (make a test blog, whether in the same account or a second account, that's not public so nobody will see you screwing around!)

---Not necessary to do all of these at once!---

Blogger may make problems for some computers about accepting cookies, especially when you are using the new versions of Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers. Difficulties with accepting scripts may be caused by security systems, antivirus programs, firewalls, and some add-ons. Check all your settings.

You may need to change your browser settings, or to list www.blogger.com and blogger.com as "trusted sites" in your Internet Options-Security so that scripting can occur.


USEFUL BLOGGER HELP FILE http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41971&topic=8914 [For Newbies or anyone else who gets lost in the rain in Juarez.]

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

How To Post Photos

The most direct way to get photos on your post is to use Blogger's picture icon:


1. Go to your Post Editor. 2. Click on Blogger's picture icon. 3. When you see "browse", click on that. 4. when it takes you to your own computer, locate the photo you want to use. 5. Click Upload. 6. Click on Done. 7. If you uploaded to a post different from where it's intended to go, possibly even on a different blog, Copy the html code. 8. Paste the code into the right post.

There are alternate free photo hosts such as Picasa, Photobucket, Flickr, etc. With some of them, costs may ensue if you exceed their limits. Try any of them, though, as alternatives when your photo host is troublesome. One may work when another one does not.

There are several useful screenshots below!

[More below...Screenshots]

First is a screenshot of the top part of this post in the Post Editor. It shows the Blogger picture icon, the tiny rectangle that's blue in the top half, and primarily green in the bottom half.]

[Below are screen shots of the photo download process.]

New images always load into a post at the top. If you view the image in Compose mode, you can Drag and Drop it to other locations; if you are viewing it in Edit Html mode, use Cut and Paste to relocate it.

END.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Small/Large Photos


"How do I get my pictures to enlarge when I click on them?" I don't keep track of all the other photo hosts, but Blogger downloads your photo in a sort of dual system so that a small image is made that fits the area (post or sidebar) and then you can click on it for the full-size large version. I used to do the same thing by hand when I made my own web sites by making both a small and large version of a picture and placing them in the format below. You can see it in the html code of your blog if you look at it in Edit Html mode; it will look something like this: <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/ _AVxLoZ0mR_0/Rb_W1nLeYQI/AAAAAAAAAIg/ qCR5JYhLf6o/s1600-h/dgblues.jpg"> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_ 5025971925707284738" style=" DISPLAY:block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center"alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AVxLoZ0mR_0/ rb_W1nLeYQI/AAAAAAAAAIg/qCR5JYhLf6o/ s400/dgblues.jpg" border="0" /></a> If you click the small image (the blue text above) you'll see the large photo (red text above), otherwise the small image is already showing. END.

"How do I get my pictures to enlarge when I click on them?"

I don't keep track of all the other photo hosts, but Blogger downloads your photo in a sort of dual system so that a small image is made that fits the area (post or sidebar) and then you can click on it for the full-size large version. I used to do the same thing by hand when I made my own web sites by making both a small and large version of a picture and placing them in the format below. You can see it in the html code of your blog if you look at it in Edit Html mode; it will look something like this:

<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/
_AVxLoZ0mR_0/Rb_W1nLeYQI/AAAAAAAAAIg/
qCR5JYhLf6o/s1600-h/dgblues.jpg">
<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_
5025971925707284738" style="
DISPLAY:block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR:
hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center"alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AVxLoZ0mR_0/
rb_W1nLeYQI/AAAAAAAAAIg/qCR5JYhLf6o/
s400/dgblues.jpg" border="0" /></a>

If you click the small image (the blue text above) you'll see the large photo (red text above), otherwise the small image is already showing.

END.

Sunday, December 07, 2008

Placing Photos in your Post


Every photo you upload will go on top of your post and you have to move them "by hand" if you want them in special locations. You can move the photos where you want them AFTER you upload them (use either drag-and-drop with the mouse or "cut" the html photo code and then paste it into the correct location or sequence.

Origins

Mama Mouse,
who used to participate in the Help Group and is sorely missed, suggested the idea of stickyposts a good while before Blogger began "flagging" long-term messages with a Tack symbol among the other posts by mere mortals, which made me think at the time of a bulletin board with stickyposts. There's still no way to stick them to the top of Blogger Help Group if you're not Blogger, so it turns out that the only way to do any good is to set myself up over here as an overbearing small-time knowitall or ad hoc advisor. Just another impudent putz who started a blog to explain how Blogger works and some of how it doesn't work!

Sometimes my true Rat nature seeps into the answers like a urine stain (like "What the HELL do you want to know THAT for?"), though mostly it doesn't. I try to keep it respectable here, but that's difficult...

Samuel Johnson: "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."

We here at Most Fiendish Blogger Questions salute you for getting this far!

MFBQ