Thursday, May 14, 2009

Getting used to Blogger

For those expert Blogspot users...(1) Is there an easier way to see new comments, besides clicking on each post? (2) I keep (thinking that I am) changing my signature, so that it doesn't say L &amp S, but it keeps defaulting to that, any suggestions? *edit* I just changed my signature to L ~ S because I am convinced there is no way to fix it. (3) How come weird spaces show up, so as in my list of '10 things I like'?
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  1. MelissaMay 14, 2009 at 6:10 PM

    OK, the way I read my comments is I have them emailed to me. I think you can also read them in the "Edit Posts" section. I also like to have the "pop-up" comments, so that they open up in a different window and then I can just stay on my blog's main page if I want to read the comments. Hope that helps.

    For your signature, why don't you just write out the word "and"? So that it says "L and S". Sometimes blogger is weird with html stuff like that..... Someone else might have a better suggestion for you.

    I have no clue about the weird spaces. I've never encountered that. How are you spacing them? Are you just hitting enter, or are you writing it out in html (ie:
    )?

    Hope that helped a bit. If not, I'm sorry. Like I said, someone else might have better suggestions than I do.

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  2. MelissaMay 14, 2009 at 6:13 PM

    ooops! Blogger actually excepted that html in my comment so it spaced it out. Sorry! But you can "write" your spaces like this

    < br > < /br > (with no spaces in there though. I just put them in so that blogger wouldn't actually make a new paragraph on me!)

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  3. TrooperMay 17, 2009 at 8:27 AM

    The whole thing with the ampersand is weird, but obviously the blogger system doesn't handle it correctly.

    As for the spaces, the reason is that blogger converts an endline (return) character into the < br > HTML tag. If you are using the "Compose" method when typing posts, it really shouldn't be a problem. However, if you are typing posts in the "Edit HTML" view, you'll need to take special considerations and do a list like:

    < ol >< li >Item 1< /li >< li >Item 2< /li >< /ol>

    and not

    < ol >
    < li >Item 1< /li >
    < li >Item 2< /li >
    < /ol>

    Also, place your text right below any closing HTML tags, but leave one space above a new HTML tag to make sure your text isn't too close or too far from things... especially photos.

    Play around with it, you'll figure it out. I just worked out my system over time and it works great.

    Andrew

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