I'm grinding my teeth right now. Easy Designer, never cooperative even on a good day, is being it's fussy little self tonight. It is the tool that I use to heft my photos onto AOL's free webpages so that after about 50 exhausting steps I have some pretty offering to decorate this pitiful blog.
Tonight Easy Designer is giving me error messages or telling me I don't have webpages. The bottom line is that I can't do anything. Even when it decides to acknowledge my existence and work correctly, the AOL blog software only allows 1 photo per entry, always at the top before the text; imbedding photos within the text is too complicated for it. I can use the You've Got Pictures feature for up to 6 photos, but they're also at the top and annoyingly tiny.
Looking over the blog fence, my blogging friends have it so much better. Imbedded photos, sometimes several in one entry, bullet highlights, lists, calendars, avatars in the profile section....the list goes on. I've seen some of these things on AOL blogs, but AOL doesn't make it easy, and I've decided not to be enslaved by the craptacular blogspace and tools AOL offers.
There are several options that look good, and for the time being, I've chosen Blogdrive for my new Blog, Life Off Hold and Photobucket Premier (unlimited) for photo hosting. In a few day's I'll provide the re-direct link once I've finished cutting the cord.
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