I'm Enrolled!

I'm getting out of my comfort zone here by taking an e-course called "Blogging Your Way" which is held by Holly Becker of decor8 fame.  Here's my school badge :)



The course started on Friday, October 5th, and it looks like the lessons come on quickly - with three per week ... so, you'll likely see more content than normal here as I work my way through.  Hopefully between work, homelife, and school work I'll keep on track.

I've set up my Twitter account.  Next I need to set up a Flickr account and create an Avatar.  And, of course, I have to write some skookum blog posts.  Skookum is so very British Columbian - without clicking on the skookum linky do you know what it means?!

OK - off to school I go!!

What The ... ?

So, I had a little OCD moment.  I wanted my photos to line up better.  And I found a blog that talked about another blog, that gave some code to use in the CSS area of Blogger (you know how that goes ... you click ... and click ... and click some more, and before you know it you are somewhere beyond the yellow brick road).

Girl does Geek was the place where I found this code:

.post-body img {

width: 400px;

height: auto;

}

.post table.tr-caption-container img {

width: 400px;

height: auto;

}

I followed the bloggers instructions and it seemed to make things better.  Except there were a couple of posts where the photos weren't quite right.  Since I don't have too many pages yet I thought I would fix them all, but somehow, a couple of posts got re-dated with today's date.  Which means that the posts are out of order.  I can't find how to fix this.  I'm stumped.

Sigh ...

Addendum:  I ended up having to check my photos since they are date-time stamped correctly and set the date and time for each post manually.  Lesson learned?  For each new post set the date and time as an initial step before writing!  Thankfully I'm not years and years into blogging ... that would have sent me round the bend.

Blog - The Nuts and Bolts

I know - no posts for eight months and now three in one day!  We can only hope I find a balance.

As I mentioned in the last post - I've been visiting a lot of sites lately to get ideas.  Organization, topics, layout.  There are so many great blogs out there - something for everyone, really.  I find I like a clean layout, minimal background distractions, lot's of pictures, and a mix of topics.

Topics I'm considering:

• Organization
• DIY / Crafting
• Renovations
• Real Estate
• Inspiration
• Food
• Photography / Artwork
• Family and Friends
• Travel / Camping
• Thrifting - including Recycling, Repurposing, Reusing
• Blog Lovin'
• Knowledge / Learning
• Thoughts and Quotes

Getting my DH, Manuel, to contribute would be great.  He's a professional - a finishing carpenter - so it would be great to have him provide some useful content.

  

Knowing me, I'll jump around a bit, focus on an area for a while, and then move on.  Seeing all the blogs out there I'm learning that's OK.

I'm going to spend a bit of Blog Administration time figuring out how I want that to work out and will update things as I learn.  See if you notice the changes!