Award - Awarded and Accepted With Thanks

Look what Lili gave me! I happily accept this award. Now to pass it on.

The rules are:
By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, you agree to award it to 10 more people whose blogs you find Excellent Award worthy. You can give it to as many people as you want but please award at least 10. You deserve this! Feel free to recognize blogs that have already received this award.

I would like to award this to:

Kathryn

Paulie

Sandy

Susan

Mercedes

Jenn

Quint

Tom

Inspired

Marcia

100th Post!

I just noticed that Wednesday's post, ABC Wednesdy, was my 100th post! It wasn't quite as fun and exciting as the 100th day of school, no 100 hats or Fruit Loop necklaces, but on the whole nice little milepost to have reached.

On Blogging & Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

Old dogs have trouble learning new tricks or so they say. In my case I'm finding this to be true. When I started this last month I didn't have a clue what HTML was and very limited knowledge of blogs. I knew blogs existed but hadn't read any. Through trial and error I've come to realize that HTML is a series of seemingly random letters and symbols that represent pictures and actions. How you can get a beautiful picture of the sky (for example) out of a bunch of letters and symbols is beyond me. I've found that you can cut and past these numbers & symbols and, at times, have things show up on your site. Other times nothing shows. I've come to realize that you need to know something about it in order to easily work through the blogging world. Knowing more would have helped me yesterday and the day before. Also having a broader knowledge of the workings of blogs and and so on might have helped.

I have posted 3 pictures on each of the last two entries in this blog. Yesterday's blog had to be deleted and done over because I couldn't get the pictures placed correctly. The words were all squished up in a 3 or 4 letter column beside the pictures. Needless to say that was unreadable. I am assuming now that, if you want to use a series of pictures with writing in between, the pictures must be in the middle. I'd also like to figure out how to downsize the pictures I place here, use thumbnail pictures. My nephew gave me the address of a picture shrinking place but the pictures turned out the same size as before.

I have another blog for my dog. I tried to have it here but our profiles kept getting mixed up. I'd fix my profile and it showed up on his. I'd fix his profile and it showed up on mine. After 4 days of fiddling around and reading FAQs I still couldn't fix it so his blog was moved to another place completely.

I think I'm going to go to Barnes and Noble or to Amazon and see if they have any of those Dummy or Idiot books for blogs. They have them for everything else! This is something that should have done before even starting. In the mean time I'll just keep plodding along here using trial and error to get by. Trial & error has always served me well, so no need to abandon it completely or look disdainfully down on it. :)