Testing new gadgets

I added the "recent post" and "labels" gadgets.

Looks like the labels works quite nicely. Just need to remember to use commas to separate the labels. Wonder if semi-colons work?

"recent posts" has been empty, but it probably just shows the last three or four days.

Place holder for theme templates

I think draft.blogger.com is looking like the best right now, but this one is also interesting: http://themecraft.net/

I can add more later.

Adding a large pic; testing lightbox...

Testing a very large picture here...

playing with pictures

okay, i'm trying to get my image inserted after this text.

seems like i might be able to move the html around.

First I'll upload this picture of a cat...

preview shows it at the top.



I'll edit the html and see if I can move it above *this* line.

Ah! Back to Compose and the picture is right where I want it. A pain, but really not all that awful. You'd think blogger would address this.

You can ignore this

This is just a mindless test. I've never setup a blog before and I figured I'd make a dummy one first before turning it on full.

This editing part looks pretty simple.

Let's try some of the little icons on top here....

This one changes fonts and sizes. Bold. Italic. This is a color square... oh it changes color.

This looks like a link..

Left justify.

center justify

right justify

block text. (probably don't have enough to see this happen) I'll add a lot of gibberish here until i can see the blocking take effect, or at least have a chance to see it take effect. that seems about long enough.

list:

1. i can do lists by numbers
2. here's two
3. three
4. four

• of just bullets
• another one
• and so on

this looks like a quote symbol.
seems to have indented.

ah, I have to type it in, highlight and then hit the quote button. Cool.

next is a spell check. so far, so good. lucky for me it isn't grammar check.

Next is add an image, so i'll hit that now

Okay, when I did that, I got a dialog that let me choose where to put the image relative to the text. It's not showing right now, so I'll have to see if I screwed it up after i post this.

Guessing that video is about the same. I'll try that in a later post.

I just hit the preview button and the lovely tree image is at the top of my text.

I'm going to add a nice yak photo now to see if I can change where it shows up.

Keeps showing up at the top of the post. Darn that. How am I supposed to do a gradual reveal if they won't mix into the text?

I'll post this and do some searching....