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In the first post of this series, I talked about my decision-making with regard to how to format my blog. Generally, each post has a left-justified thumbnail with a graphic element. The primary elements include an external image, a video, or a slideshow of photos that integrated into a NextGen Gallery on my blog. Typically I create a box (division), using HTML which allows me to control that the contents be left justified on the page, the size of the graphic, and justification of text within the box. This slideshow illustrates a box Continue reading NextGen Gallery Slideshow
Today you have the opportunity to participate in my first ever ONLINE POLL! Check out the various ways of showing video on a WordPress blog and vote for your favorite. (To put this in context, you might want to read my post from a couple of days ago, Working out my blog format)
YouTube in Division Floated Left without a border
The most challenging formatting comes with floating a video thumbnail to the left and allowing text to wrap down the right side. The embed code one gets from the video host (YouTube for the example on the left) does not allow for such formatting. If there is a slicker way to handle this, please let me know in the comments.
What I did was create a division within Continue reading Video Thumbnails in Your Blog
 As mentioned yesterday, my primary layout is a 180px wide photo on the left which may or may not have a link to an album. This is an example of that layout. Use the ‘add an image’ button, then ‘from URL’, to be able to add a hyperlink. In this case the hyperlink is back to the image. Continue reading Use a Gallery2 Photo to Lead Your Blog
Oops. Time has gotten away from me as I focused on my other blog (and my job). Sorry.
Today’s post is intended for my fellow WordPress bloggers. I hope I can save them the time, sweat, and tears (okay, for me it was fun) of figuring this out on their own.
Media can be presented in a number of ways in one’s blog. A single picture, an album (array) of pictures, a slideshow, a video, or a soundtrack. It quickly becomes more complex when one considers that there are a number of means of hosting and displaying the media. For example, the source picture could be from your own collection on your computer, a Picasa web album, a Flickr set, someone else’s web Continue reading Working out my blog format
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