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Personal to Blog@ Newsarama writers

12/12/2008 9:01 am by The Beat

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When you put an image in, you need to put in spacing code so that the text doesn’t butt up right against the image. That looks nasty. I use 4 pixels like this: < vspace = "4" > < hspace = "4" > only without the spaces.

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  1. Alex says

    12/12/2008 9:15 am at 9:15 am

    HA!

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  2. Jason A. Quest says

    12/12/2008 9:23 am at 9:23 am

    Better yet, get the folks who code the site to put some automatic spacing in, with CSS in the site’s stylesheet. Create a class for inline blog images and apply something like {margin: 4px;} to it.

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  3. Torsten Adair says

    12/12/2008 9:40 am at 9:40 am

    My peeve, and I see this on various mainstream media news sites, is when the article zigzags down the page. This is caused by an image anchored on the left margin, then having a lower ad anchored to the right margin. Sometimes, on longer articles, there’s an ad placed in the middle of the text, with no frame of ruling, which acts like a pothole for the eyes.

    Oh, and who invented those stupid hyperlinks with the pop-up windows? I’m moving my cursor across the screen, and the text is obscured by some floating window! I can understand if it refers to another article, but when it’s generic…GRR….

    Another peeve… orphan lines that wind up under a graphic, but do not connect to the text in the paragraph above. Your example above almost does this. Sometimes it’s caused by automatic resizing, but if the layout is static, it’s a big lazy mistake.

    (And I do not know about blog ettiquette. Should an image found from another site include a hyperlink to that site? Kind of like how the newspapers credit a photo source? I know one is not supposed to have your website automatically grab the image from the original site each time your page loads.)

    (And a question for Newsarama… Don’t you have a stylesheet which automatically formats blog posts and other articles? …This is the size and typeface for the headline. This is how we present your by-line. Pictures are anchored to the left margin. Related websites are footnoted at the bottom of the article for further reading…)

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  4. The Beat says

    12/12/2008 9:44 am at 9:44 am

    Jason: Thanks, my css is weak!

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  5. Firefly says

    12/12/2008 10:12 am at 10:12 am

    What? Heidi, you actually READ that sh*t?!

    There isn’t enough spacing code to keep me away from that Wizard-esque site. I stopped paying attention to the propagandists at Newsarama a long time ago.

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  6. Rick Rottman says

    12/12/2008 10:15 am at 10:15 am

    Actually, the problem is with the css style sheet, not the bloggers. Whoever wrote the code set up a 10px margin between the text and a thumbnail image, but not if that thumbnail image is also a clickable link. The problem is that all their thumbnail images are also clickable links.

    If the blog@newsarama bloggers removed the link from whatever image they are posting, the image would look OK.

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  7. Firefly says

    12/12/2008 10:47 am at 10:47 am

    Heidi:

    No one on the corner has swagga like us….swagga like us….HO-O-O-OH-VAAA!

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  8. The Beat says

    12/12/2008 10:47 am at 10:47 am

    Sweet! We can blame Imaginova! And apparently it will be fixed quickly.

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  9. Patrick Dean says

    12/12/2008 11:25 am at 11:25 am

    Aw nuts, Heidi, I thought this was an actual post about news of the deluxe edition of Till Eulenspiegel.

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  10. Fanboy Menace says

    12/13/2008 12:36 am at 12:36 am

    Where did all the folks go who used to run Blog@? That’s the blog I’d like to read.

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  11. Fanboy Menace says

    12/13/2008 12:43 am at 12:43 am

    Ah right, clicked out and saw the PopCultureShock link that answers my question after posting. Thanks Heidi.

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  12. bov says

    12/13/2008 5:54 am at 5:54 am

    No love for the hottie in the purple?

    What’s her number?

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  13. Alan Coil says

    12/13/2008 11:47 am at 11:47 am

    “And apparently it will be fixed quickly.”

    Yeah, right, like the trouble many people are having posting at the site. You know, that posting problem they have been having since Imaginova changed the site oh so many months ago.

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