E-Course Homework - My Bio/About Me

I read a lot of blogs.  Daily.  On days when most have new postings it can take me a couple of hours to get through the whole list.

One of the exercises in the e-course I'm taking right now is to update my own Bio/About Me area.  With that in mind, I used this long list of blogs that I follow (currently, that's 70!) to read through the Bio/About Me area for each.  Here's what I found ...

Some had long Bio's, some had brief ones.  Some were light and humorous, some quite serious and business like, and a few were fairly dry.  There were even some well followed ones with no Bio/About Me area.  Most had at least one photo - usually of themselves, but not always.  After reading all of them I came to the conclusion that it was nice to know something about the Blogger, but not essential to my liking their blog.  For those that write in a personal style, often including tidbits of their lifes in their postings, it didn't seem to matter if their Bio was short, long, or even there.  If the Bio was too long it sometimes got boring.  Almost invariably, brief was better.  I particularly liked the ones that gave a brief Bio followed by some technical information - cameras and software they used.  Many included how to contact them, including a texted email address (along the lines of mynameATsomeplaceDOTcom so that bad people can't scrap their emails from their website).  Finally, there were a few discussing privacy, use of their content and photos, and one - Chez Larsson - who discussed safety and non-liability ... a concept that I thought smart for those sharing DIY tutorials/ideas.

With this research under my belt I feel a bit more confident in doing my own Bio/About Me.  Let's see how it goes.

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.