Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Header Image

The blogger.com, i.e., blogspot.com simple template which we have been using has an option to add a background image and to have that image adjust its size to fit.

The result is not acceptable except for the mobile view.

But this one minor edit to the template HTML for the default CSS style gives a good result:

#header img {
width: 100%;
max-width:100%;
margin-$startSide: auto;
margin-$endSide: auto;
}


Select "Proceed" when warned about doing edits to the HTML. Be sure to preview the result before saving the template.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

IE blogger

 
Internet Explorer was going berserk on this blog!  This was not the case for Google Chrome or Firefox.

Why?

Too many links in the Tag Cloud widget!

I restricted the tags that can appear in the widget and IE behaves.
 

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Google Chrome browser and Google's BlogSpot blogger.com

This blogging service keeps reminding me how much better off I would be using Chrome (removed from this PC and no longer permitted to update on my Ubuntu netbook. Ahem.)

I get this little tickle at the back of my neck when I read their suggestion: how long before some essential blogger function here will be an exclusive Chrome feature (HTML 5 being what it is ?)

So why remain with blogger.com instead of uisng WordPress wherever else? Well, I do - some - but I prefer blogger when it comes down to it.  But I could not say why. The templates are annoying. At least one important feature is completely daft.  Write it off as habit and a lean towards the familiar.

But today I may have unwittingly nibbled at the bait - I clicked into the invite to try http://draft.blogger.com/home - but only in my default browser.  A browse of the source code for that page reveals nothing sinister ... the doctype and dtd are HTML4 ...

The Chrome blog itself is here.