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Tinkering in progress

Nuts. I tried to post a rather long piece yesterday, attempting to create an expandable post so that only a lead-in appears on the main blog and the body is expanded only on selection of a link.

I'm tripping over the auto-formatting that Blogger inserts into posts; it insists on embedding a begin-font tag all over the place, but no closing font tag. It's driving me nuts!

I guess I'll have to try using a post template so that the text on all posts is the same unless indicated otherwise, to try and override the default fonting.

Bear with me; you might see what looks like an old post appear between here and the previous post.

But enough about me -- how are you?

Comments

mark hoback said…
Are you discoveing the fact that there really is no such thing as good blog software?
Rayne Today said…
Heh. There's good software, just not bug-free, brain-dead easy software. I really didn't have that many problems with Radio until my desktop crapped out, although the client-based software was a nuisance. The tradeoff here in Blogger is that I can set up multiple blogs, team blogs using a free, host-based solution.

Speaking of which, you should check this out: http://thesalonblogs.blogspot.com -- wanna' play?
mark hoback said…
Maybe... Starting a new blog with Katy Hipke imminently. I think that means soon.
Rob said…
Have you had any interaction with Blogger support? Does such a thing exist?

It's really good to have regular installments of Rayne Today to read again. I missed your writing while away from the blogosphere for most of last year, and then when I returned, you weren't posting!

Cool color scheme, too.
Art Jacobson said…
Rayne...

I've been tryingto post a comment to the meta-blog but it's been "no joy." What's up?
Rayne Today said…
Nice to see you, Adrian! Blogger has support, but I imagine with 4+ million registered users that prompt response is slim. There's a learning curve here and I'm still climbing, will just take time.

Art, I'll check it out. I know there was a couple of burps with Blogger during the last 24 hours, hope it was something little like that. It's not your profile or the meta-blogs since Mark Hoback was able to post.

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