Blog Formatting

All,

Nice job on all of the excellent blog posts in the past couple of weeks!

I am messing around a little bit with the blog template to try to make the default formatting a little more pleasing to the eye, so don't freak out if things start looking a little differently.

I also wanted to mention a couple of basic items that will help with the overall aesthetic of the blog. First, remember that when you post pictures you have several alignment options that effect the way your final post will look. Consider these when formatting your post. There is a 'preview' link directly above the right-hand side of the text-entry box for a new post. Clicking that link will show you what your post is going to look like when you publish it.

I encourage you all to use a double line-break at the end of paragraphs for longer posts. This means hitting the 'Enter' key twice when you finish a group of cohesive thoughts. It results in a most that looks like the one you are reading now, as opposed to a single, stream-of-consiousness-looking mess. Using this approach ensures that our older readers won't dismiss your post out of hand.

Finally, I would also encourage you to use label words for your post. These are words that allow for easy searching down the line if you are looking for a particular post. As you can see at the bottom of this post, I've labeled it with 'blog', 'posting', and 'formatting'. You do this by separating the words with commas in the 'labels for this post' field at the bottom of the posting window.

Always feel free to email me at jfroach@gmail.com if you have questions.

I expect to see some good pics from this coming weekend posted on Monday!