Unyielding editor
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I swapped Bloggers for WordPress simply because they censor feverishly as soon as you place a ‘Life is short play naked’ Calvin pica, don’t laugh, something wicked this way comes: the dark ages. One thing said for Bloggers: you can have a excellent go at the HTML and posting and editing is a fluent affair. Not so with WordPress. Why is it such a struggle to change, for instance, WP’s standard type Arial with microscopic 10pts into something larger? Trebuchet pts 11 makes for more comfortable reading. I’m also forced to put all my linings in 150%, the standard Arial lines almost touch each other; shitty reading again.
The editor is sheer hell. A moderate post with a couple of images costs me 3-6 hours to get right. Makes no difference if I load from a Notepad or a Doc. Corrections made in Code get lost as soon as I click Save or Publish. Not all, but enough to keep me busy to no end. I should be able to make a few simple changes in HTML, don’t I? I’ve used Dusk and Andreas, by the way.I’m now hestitant to buy the upgrade because I feel it won’t make things easier. Or will it?
Sorry for being grumpy, but WordPress is my last hope on decent blogging. Well, after three days I’m literally exhausted! -
It’s TinyMCE. It has issues. You are putting your code in the Code tab of the editor, right? Some folks keep trying to add html diretcly into the visual editor which is a nogo.
You can always change editors as well. Dashboard -> Users -> My Profile -> Uncheck the editor box near the top and Save Changes. A lot of folks feel your pain and can’t stand TinyMCE. Unfortunity it’s third part software and the developers aren’t involved with the upkeep of it much.
Without knowing what changes you’re talking about, there’s little we can help with.
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I use Dusk and it takes me maybe five minutes to put up a post with links, images, images linked to external sites, .doc files, you name it. You’re doing something wrong. I have two Blogger blogs, and I find them much more difficult to post to and less intuitive and versatile than my two WordPress.com blogs or even my WordPress.org blog.
Which upgrade are you talking about purchasing? CSS?
Also, you’re not using IE7, are you? There are known bugs in that which interfere with the editor.
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I write my blog entries in Dreamweaver, then copy and paste the code in one sweep…it keeps all the formatting, even though it feels odd to prepare a web page with no CSS adjustments. Even then, code view does tend to have it’s own ideas sometimes, and change stuff without me telling it, or wanting it.
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I use BlogDesk a free off-line blog editor that’s intuitive, easy to use and allows you to publish directly to your blog, as well as, to post-date articles. I recommend it http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm
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I tried BolgDesk before I wiped my XP. It had a .dll issue with my PC and wouldn’t work right, it refused to connect to my blog (since I was about to abandon XP anyway I didn’t bother trying to fix it)….but beyond that, it does look like a handy time saving program….I’m planning to install a Linux version of the same type of program.
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Wow, loads of reac tions…
No, for everything I do in the Visual section I use the editor buttons.
And Firefox is my browser. Right now I’m trying to load a 5-strophe poem, so every strophe (alinia actually) needs a white space Enter. Otherwise I have no strophes. I found the tagcode for that, pasted it in, and it worked. Next time I re-openend the editor tool, the tag was gone and everything had changed back to Arial 10 pts…
The odd thing is, that changing the font-family at first resulted in one correct strophe, and all the others in basic Arial 10 again. In a certain complicated article (with lots of img-txt wrapping), everything appeared in wonderful Trebuchet pts 11, except for two seemingly random chosen segments. After many tries I managed to smooth those out, by deleting a few span & spanclosing tags that had no reason to be where they were.
But for the poem I gave every strophe (alinia, actually) a TNR tag. The editor obviously sees them as isolated postings. Upon returning I saw that the closing tags, </p> were changed into </span>. So I suspect I did something wrong. Anyway, whatever tags, they didn’t hold.‘Uncheck the Editor’…it means you don’t get to see the img, only the tagcode and I also had to go and find the exact ‘align left/right’ tag. When I returned to the editor, the (saved) image-tag had evaporated.
This is driving me insane. I like the Dusk blog (Andreas’s a beauty too but works no better) and if it has to be Arial, then let it be Arial. But the font format calls for reading glasses. It’s awful to have to choose a lesser distinctive template with colours I dislike just for the sake of a bloody font format. A shame indeed that the Dusk designer isn’t more proud of her gorgeous template.
I’m going to give BlogDesk a try. Millions all over the world are blogging without turning into screaming selfmutilators, so there must be a way. Thanks for the help and the condoleances!
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It may be just my perceptions, but some fonts look great until the comments…..which for some unknown reason are on a Mr Magoo size setting…….a row of enhanced dots, which if you look closely are words.
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Do you have your browser set to display fonts at a medium size? I can’t read the small size, but medium displays just fine on mine, and I’m nearsighted and using Dusk. But if you can use Blogdesk, I hear nothing but good things about it.
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A stupid question perhaps, but where is the HTML of BlogDesk?…
Text in BlogDesk change into a tiny font, obviously a standard, and once loaded into the Dusk Editor it changes to Arial 10 again. Am I overlooking something?
@raincoaster,
You referring to the magifying glass option? The size is not to accomodate me, but the readers of my blog. I mean, of course I make the text up beforehand and in the size/style I prefer, but BlogDesk does not duplicate them. -
I’m using IE6, and it has an option to set the display of websites’ text to medium or another size. Even though I’m nearsighted I find the default Arial in the Dusk template works just fine, and I’m wondering if your browser is set to display the type smaller, which would account for the fact you find it unworkable. To me, anything larger than “medium” would begin to look unprofessional and difficult to read.
Reading back, I see that you say it makes no difference if you paste from a Word doc; that to me is really strange. I have always had it respect my font choices when I paste from Word.
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The editor immediately replaces a chosen font for something that looks like Garamond in a nice size. But once Saved or Published, it’s changed again: to Arial 10. Firmly.
The option you refer to is probably screenresolution in Configuration. Most internetters have it set to the 1024×768 level. The low pixellation indeed features larger details, but the image also loses a lot in sharpness and clarity.
So the point is not how I can enlarge or change my display, the problem is that blogvisitors don’t do such a thing. Set on the 1024×768 scale they take one look at my page, grumble: ‘Hard to read’, and surf off to more pleasant internetfields.I’ll check all my browser and MS settings, perhaps I overlooked some little something that is screwing up my text transfers.
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No, it’s not screen resolution; my resolution is 800×600.
In IE6 you go to View, then Text Size, and there you choose the size displayed. Most designers recommend using “Medium” when you’re designing a site, because that’s the default most people use and you can see how your site looks to the majority of surfers.
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Why do I have the feeling that you’re still using the rich text editor?
Have you tired the regular text editor? Dashboard -> Users -> Your Profile -> uncheck that box near the top and Save Changes.
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@raincoaster,
I found the option, never used it before. So ever since the install it’s set at ‘normal’ (in Firefox as well as in IE7) which I presume is same as ‘medium’.@drmike,
I tried the regular, it even has another disadvantage: no hspace. (to prevent wrapped text getting glued closely to the image). This code has to be inserted in the font & size tagcode, but the Arial font tag does not get featured in the Code, simply because its a template standard. All I can do to avoid this irritating effect, is putting a frame around the images that has more or less the same light colour as the text background, not nice.It’s really weird; I have used Bloggers.nl and am a guestwriter on a WordPress blog and both use exact the same editor. No problems there.
The specific white spaces tagcode (those by Enters I mean) which I now insert in the Code field works well and doesn’t vanish after closing off the editor, so that problem is resolved.
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Actually both hspace and font tags are supported by the normal editor. You just have to put them in yourself.
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@drmike
Yes, but the font tage I insert in normal editor doesn’t get saved.I notice that I made a mistake with the hspace tag. It has to be added to the img tag…
I’m going to try if the font tag Arial 10 holds. It should, it’s the basic layout font. If it does, I can change line-height into 150%, which makes for easier reading. Or perhaps just adding <span style=, and then the line-height value will do the trick as well.
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The font tags should be saving. Works for other folks. What;’s teh exact code you’re trying to add in? Please paste it here within backticks. That’s the key to teh left of the ‘1’ key on a stanbdard PC keyboard.
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Eureka.
Changing fonts and sizes are no problem. Unless…I do more than one Enter, or when I divide paragraphs with OL/LI. In those cases, all ‘floating’ subtexts need to be closed off with </ span>, and the next line opened again with the font-family tag, and </ span> again at the end.
This is the only way I can get a uniform lay-out. I have settled upon Times New Roman 12 because it reads clearest I’v noticed, and literally everybody’s browser is adapted to Times New Roman.
All this is less handy than I would have liked, but at least I can set the lay-out the way I want to.Do I close this thread off myself or is it for the moderator to do? Anyway, thank you all for the thinking along, I couldn’t have managed without!
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