Thursday, August 28, 2008

Technology Frustrations

Today we're supposed to blog about something technology-related, so I'm going to tell you how annoying Blogger is being right now. Amanda and I are trying to put pictures behind our headers, and it's just not working. Mostly the problem is that the picture has to be a certain length and width, but nowhere on Blogger does it tell us what those measurements are. So we've ended up with several pictures that are too short, not wide enough, not even the right format, etc.

I guess this is the LEARN part of the Learn & Play thing, though. So far I've pretty much just been able to jog through these things without too much problem, but this picture has me stymied. It has been kind of neat to be able to work with several coworkers on the problem, though. That's one thing I like about the initiative: everyone is excited, and everyone is sharing tips and hints for the different tasks.

Hopefully I'll be able to update soon with a working picture, but for now I'm going to go search the Internet for "long horizontal sunset picture."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The sunset photo looks amazing. It looks like you worked it out a bit, but according to the "page info" (look under View in FF) the image size is 660px by 177 px and the image can be found here http://tinyurl.com/647fom

Downloading just the image might help you crop another image that you like to use in its place.

Have fun

Anonymous said...

And if you're doing it at work, all the new computers have the basic MS photo editor, which you can use to crop and/or expand the photo you want to use until it's the right size. The header at the top of my page was cropped, re-sized, and then filtered in Photoshop.