Positioning pictures

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  swoolrich · Member · Jul 24, 2011 at 8:26 am

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  I’m having problems getting pictures where I want them. In this blog, on the Cattery page, I have an image on the left at the top with a paragraph starting to it’s right. I want to be able to get another image, futher down, starting alongside ‘Occasionally…’

  But if I put the cursor at the start of that paragraph and use the ‘Insert picture’ icon, it ends up at the top next to the first one.

  I see blogs where people have done this, but how? Are they editing the HTML or is there some ‘black magic’ I’ve not managed to find in the help?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  wpgaurav · Member · Jul 24, 2011 at 11:37 am

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  If this hasn’t worked, try dragging and dropping the images from one part to another.

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  swoolrich · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 11:41 am

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  OK, the method in your link works:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-alignment/

  But not in Internet Explorer 9 – it’s OK using Firefox 3.6. Haven’t tried other browsers (Safari, Chrome, etc.) or other versions of IE or Firefox.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 3:46 pm

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  The most recent stable version of Firefox is 5.0.1 and the most recent stable version of IE is IE9. . Please upgrade your browser here > http://browsehappy.com Note that if you don’t upgrade then you will have nothing but problems.

  I use HTML tables to align images. Perhaps you may wish to do that too.
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/24/align-images-html-tables-for-wordpress-blogs/

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  swoolrich · Member · Jul 26, 2011 at 10:25 am

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  As mentioned above I am using IE9 and it’s completely up-to-date, as is the OS which is W7x64.

  I know it’s an old version of Firefox but that’s not where the problem is.

  I will look at using HTML to align my images but as far as I am concerned the main reason to use WordPress (or whatever) is to avoid using HTML. I can – I used to write all my stuff in HTML (originally using Notepad which lead to some awful spelling errors) – but it’s like using assembler to write computer programs, there are (or should be) better ways these days.