June 3, 2008

Pegasus II  coming in 2014
Shadows coming in 2013

Silly hellhounds, editorial muted shrieks

So, is everyone seeing them side by side with the right-hand text column bang through the right-hand one?  I loaded them to follow each other, and when I tried to move them around just now, nothing happens back here at the edit window, but when I click back through to what’s showing on the blog of course they’ve climbed on top of each other.  So I dragged them back.  I hope.  Whimper.  Blogmom, help. . . .  There has got to be a way, but the $64K question is can I learn it?

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Comment by jmeadows

They’re staggered for me.

LIKE THIS
AND THIS!

No text through them. They look good to me! :D

Comment by Robin

This happened last time, I think. I was trying to drown myself in an inadequate pond and you were saying, problem? What problem? I will have to ask Blogmom To Explain It All To Me. As well as teach me to load so that it looks all right on MY screen too. (Maybe you have a nice screen. And I have Screen from Hell.)

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Comment by jmeadows

Well poop. WordPress didn’t scoot the AND THIS over. I added lots of spaces. But staggered. Really.

I do have a nice screen. And your photos look very nice on it!

Comment by Robin

Well poop. WordPress didn’t scoot the AND THIS over. I added lots of spaces. But staggered. Really.

********* Yes. Exactly. WordPress is lovely in many ways–and I remember my days of struggling with lj’s comment handling with deeprest horror–but SOME things are still a little . . . basic.

 
 
Comment by Black Bear

Is that like “Sister Mary Blogmom Explains It All To You”?

 
 
 
Comment by southdowner

I don’t care about the words in the wrong place – life is waaaay too short! Just agree that you have got the MOST gorgeous dogs (mine of course are equally gorgeous ;)) and the photos are great…

Now go away from the computer, put the hammer down, refrain from saying “Kill me!” and have some green and black’s :)

Comment by Robin

have some green and black’s :)

********* I am doing that very thing at this VERY MOMENT. :)

(Yes, they ARE gorgeous, aren’t they? :) As well as silly.)

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Comment by Jax

staggered. No text. Is this to do with screensize? Forgive the basic question, but have you maximised your browser to see what it looks like then?

Comment by Robin

I have no idea what ‘maximised your browser’ MEANS. But I have a 14″ screen on the mews laptop which is NOT SMALL. I’ll look when I get back to the cottage at what appears on the 22″ or whatever it is screen on the desktop.

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Comment by Jax

Sorry, have you got your browser set up to fill your whole screen. Use the F11 key to do it (and then use F11 to reset to whatever you were previously using).

14″ isn’t small, but it isn’t big either. How did it look on the other screen?

 
Comment by Jax

oh, and I really should have asked what browser you are using. I’m using firefox on windows, which is working fine, or as fine as these things can.

And then I saw the blogmom comment, so I’ll quit now :)

 
 
 
Comment by southdowner

Extremely, addictively gorgeous!
and silly is underrated – howling with laughter is just the best way to spend time :)

Comment by Robin

Yes, except it makes the camera shake! :)

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Comment by Vikkik

The pics are showing fine for me.
Slightly staggered on the diagonal, but not overlaying each other.

And the hounds are very cute.
Oh, and have you got hold of the apricot G&B yet?

Comment by Robin

No! I haven’t seen it!!!!!

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Comment by Susan from Athens

Enjoying this with fresh cherries. Dark and luscious. No chocolate necessary. I have a 19 inch screen and they are over the text. I can still enjoy them.

 
Comment by anne_d

The photos are all fine, no text where it shouldn’t be, and they are lovely hellhounds. I think my screen is 14″ on the diagonal, so it’s not huge.

It looks like they’re having a great time mock-fighting. What wonderfully silly dogs they are.

 
Comment by Diane in MN

As you’ve heard already, the pictures came out very well, no obscuring of photos or text . Chaos and Darkness are lovely boys and have SUCH A GOOD TIME. Hopefully when the Alpha Bitch gets a little brother and he gets big enough to play with her without getting trampled, we’ll have digital pictures of Danes running like greyhounds (well in one sense they are big hounds) and playing Crash and Kill, Biteface, and Stair Death.

And speaking of bitches . . . Bitch is a South Australian Grenache bottled by R Wines, which apparently does not have a web site, and imported into the US by Grateful Palate Imports. I opened a bottle tonight and I like it, but it’s a big red (15% alcohol, whoa) and probably wouldn’t suffer from a little bottle aging (it’s a 2006 vintage). I’d buy more. The label is pink with a heart and a dagger. Hmmm.

Comment by Robin

. . . and the Mad Scene from Lucia, a capella. :)

I will look for Bitch. 15%, ugh, why do wines keep getting STRONGER? I want something I can DRINK. But we like big reds.

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Comment by Diane in MN

Well, at 15% this is a wine that would certainly tolerate being made into sangria!

 
 
 
Comment by JM

Yes, pics are staggered and text is unimpaired.

Have you refreshed your screen? Hold down the SHIFT key and click on your refresh button at the top of your Broswser window.

Beautiful dogs!

 
Comment by judy-in-ny

The text-and-picture arrangement is fine on the Safari browser of my small, nasty screen–my Firefox had a heart attack and makes alphabet soup out of anything, so we’ve parted company for now. Also, the hounds themselves are better than fine. I feel like I can see them moving–

 
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Comment by AJLR

Those really are very handsome and happy hellhounds. I love the one with Chaos lying on his back, trying to lure Darkness in close…:)

If you’re still thinking of trying some different photo-editing software, there’s a free program to download here – http://www.getpaint.net/ – that I’ve heard several people speak highly of in the last week or so. I shall be trying it out myself this weekend. I’d be interested to know what others here think, too.

Comment by Robin

I’m not trying ANYTHING till at least 1,000,000 stupid, web-inept people have used it SUCCESSFULLY.

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