December 31, 2006
Round Tuits
Last night's blog entry reminded me of something that I have meaning to do.
Several years ago, when I first started writing in this blog, I learned how to display pictures in the blog entries. This required me to:
- Take a picture
- Determine what size I wanted the picture to be shown in the blog entry
- Modify the picture in software, Photoshop Elements in my case
- FTP the picture to my blogs images directory
- Hand code the HTML to display the image (location, height, width, border, etc.)
- Preview the entry
- Modify the html
- Rinse and repeat until correct.
There had to be a better way.
During the last 24 months I recognized the better way but had stopped blogging. I stored the knowledge in my head and went on with life.
Well, last night I decided to add the picture to the blog entry and realized that not only did I have to add the picture the old way, I couldn't even remember the specifics of the old way. I had to research the directory structure of the blog, I had upgraded my software twice since the last time I resized a photo for the blog, plus I was using a completely different blog editor.
I went ahead and added the picture the old way and went to bed.
This morning I decided that it was time to finally update my process to add pictures to the blog as well as establish a proven method of transferring pictures amongst friends and family.
Of course, this meant creating a Flickr account. There are other sites out there but I like Flickr.
Now all I have to is:
- take a picture
- upload the picture to Flickr
- copy the html provided by Flickr to my blog entry
Not only does the picture get their faster and is easier to add, the reader can click on the picture and view it at whatever resolution they prefer. For example, here is the veal scallopini from last night:
If you click it and view the picture at a higher resolution, you can see that the meal doesn't look have bad! The original picture from last night did not do the meal justice.
Now I would love to say that I have no more round tuits but that would laughable. I have so many things that I would like to do that if I spent all of 2007 working on them I would probably not finish everything. The reality is that it will continue to be a constantly re-prioritized queue of things to do.
On that note, I am trying to improve my efficiency, and who isn't?, and purchased a book that I want to HIGHLY recommend:
While you could get all of this information off of the website LifeHacker, this book just consolidates the information and allows for easier reading in some circumstances.
Posted by swfields at December 31, 2006 05:48 PM | TrackBack