Learning about Blogging

I have had to learn a lot about blogging in general since I first started around 1999 after I had recovered from my heart virus. First, I began composing my websites in HTML which limited a lot what I could do. For example, I might give the location of a picture but couldn't really display a picture at my website from myself or another location. However, in 2007 I started intuitivefred888 which has a "compose" mode where you can compose your site without fully understanding HTML. It's sort of a shorthand way of composing a site. At this point I could display not only text but also pictures and graphics and even videos. This was really great to be able to do this then and ever since. So, as advances come one by one online sometimes we can be aware of some of these changes and we can benefit and so can our readers.

To my present way of thinking about it, "Compose" mode at Blogspot (blogger.com)  is a form of artificial intelligence where Automatic encoders, automatically do the HTML part of your work. The difficulty often is if you are quoting from one online site to another one. Then sometimes problems can arise. But, if you are only quoting a link, usually this turns out okay. So, if you are composing the text usually you will have no problem at all. It gets progressively more difficult though and you have to be aware of more variables if you are going to do pictures or videos often. So, whenever you compose a more complex website you need to check to see how it loads (at least in the browser format you are sending it in. Because often things are going to load differently in each browser (like right now I'm loading into Chrome but I used to like Firefox Better but something wasn't loading right in Firefox and I couldn't stop the problem so this forced me to move over to Chrome. But, when you compose in Chrome you aren't sure how it was going to load in Explorer, or Safari, or Firefox or anything else. The only way you can be sure is to test whatever you write by loading it through Safari and Firefox and Explorer or whatever. Just know that if you compose something in a Chrome browser it will always load better in a Chrome browser than anything else for your readers.

Each media platform like in an Ipad, Iphone, Android, PC, or Macbook Pro, Imac is likely going to load whatever you do somewhat differently. For example, I like when I look at my website through usually safari on my Iphone to view the web version because it is more useful for me to do that. Others might have different preferences. To do this you have to go to the bottom of the page when it loads and under everything it says something like "View Web Version" and I usually click on that because it is much easier for me to deal with my site that way.