Life on the Road

I’m really enjoying all the new “toys” that are out there…  The blog itself being the first and most basic one.

My newest discovery is Flickr, an online “photo album” with some really nice photo sharing tools.  Check out the animated “badge” over on the right sidebar - a collection of cute (if I do say so myself) photos of our kids.  It’s currently WAAAY down there at the bottom, though…  I think I need to rethink how to order things on the sidebar.  Maybe it’s even time to move to a template that has sidebar space on both sides?

I’m still getting to know all the things that are built right into the WordPress software that I use for the blog itself.  It has so many things that I haven’t had the chance to experiment with — I don’t even know what I don’t know! 

The biggest thing I need to find out right at the moment is how to get the darn photos to stay put!  The editor has an html view, so I can look at the post that way and add in a couple of paragraph tags or line breaks… But somehow the software, which obviously thinks it is a far better judge of such things than I, removes them during its “validation”!  And sometimes it will look fine in the “preview,” but not when posted.  But typically the text and photos all flow together and create a very sloppy looking and disorganized mess.  I have found a few ways to cheat it into leaving a blank line to space things out - but that kind of “hard coding” only works for viewers using the same screen resolution I’m using when I set it up.  The technical writer in me is horrified every time I look at the blog — but so far I haven’t found the answer.  If you know, PLEASE share!!

Another thing I will definately be doing in the fairly immediate future is putting up a separate “blog” for our Team training site.  My vision is that I can use the blog itself to send out announcements and such, while posting information that remains useful over time (training, important links, sample flyers, etc.) on the static “Pages”.

Right now?  Time to leave this all for another day (will that day EVER come?) and try to get my fussy girl to sleep.  I can hardly blame her, since it’s hot and humid and generally unpleasant here, even at almost 11 pm.  I think “the State of Misery” is a fairly apt slander…