This is Test of Photoblogging # 1: Insert As You Go

Can I add text here? Guess so.

Hi my name is BigRuta and this is my test blog. This is where I test out all the frightfully nonintuitive and user unfriendly features of blogger. That is if blogger is up and I can connect. And if blogger stays up and does not cut my connection every fifteen minutes or so. I posted to my other blogger blog last night. It took four hours. That really sucked.

So any way, this is a tutorial for me to learn how to use the image posting features of blogger. The last time I used it, it did not seem to work very well. This time seems satisfactory - so far. I will make several attempts to play with and shake-out this blogger feature before I am ready to try it on my regular blog. Why? Because I an a suspicious bastard, that's why!

Well, okay. I have set the layout option for right, midsize and it seems to be working so far. I inserted the above photo (the first photo, the one of the title screen of The Terror of Tiny Town) just after the first paragraph. The last time I tried this, all the pictures ended up bunched together at the top of the post. I was mad, to say the least. Right now I am satisfied. We will see if that continues. Because if there is one sure and certain thing in this crazy wild messed up insane loco nutcase world, it is that things change constantly and that computer software programmers can not be trusted. Sorry Doug and Greg, but I have been burned too many times.

And now, it is all fucked up! Dammit! I just tried to insert the second photo into this post (the one with the boom showing at the top of the screen). It should have been inserted below the above paragraph. But it is up at the top right next to the first image. This is the same thing that happened the last time I tried to insert images in posts! What am I doing wrong!

Ah ha! Now I have discovered that you can click and drag the images anywhere you want to within the post! If that is so, then why do they give you a choice of layouts? And why could I not find that helpful little bit of information in blogger help? Okay, so let's try it again and see what happens if I want to put an image to the left without changing the layout.

Okay, so the image of the penguin fist appears in the top right corner and moves the title card image to the left and the text down some. the second image stays where I put it. Now I will move the penguin image down below this paragraph and align it to the right. Here goes...

Ah ha! Now I see! I think. The image is always imported at the top of the post according to the layout rules you specify. You then have to move it to the point in the post where you want it,but you can not align it differently than the layout you chose. I could drag the penguin down, but could not get it to align to the right. Interesting. Wonder if there are any restrictions when you choose no layout?

Hmmmph. Well. This seems to be better than I at first attempt thought it to be. Wow! That was a crappy sentence! Oh well, whatever, this is just my test blog. No one will care. And if they do, so what. Screw you piss off! Apparently this is workable. I am going to try another post with no layout and type in all the text first, then add the images. We shall see, my pretties! Oh yes! We shall see! Heh, hee, hee, hee!

-Testmaster Grand Flash