It Is Probably Not Right to Bitch About Blogger, But...
why:
1. Every time I use the proprietary word processing program that comes up on the "New Post" page, I get "Font." A font I don't like. A font that won't give way to Arial until I tell it to use Arial twice. This happens even if I compose in Word, using Arial, and cut and paste into Blogger.
2. If I start in the stupid program and go off to get a URL link, and "paste" it into the post, it puts it somewhere above where the cursor is in the text. Then I have to move it back to where it put it in the first place.
3. Sometimes it goes back to "Font" if I hit a hard return. Those Google guys and girls love the unlovely "Font."
That's it. Font comes free with Blogger. I guess I have no consideration given on my part so as to complain, but, damn, give a summer intern a project and fix the bugs.
Oh, I'm leaving this in just to prove a point, I just realized that the piece of *%$@ processor goes back to Font after you use the spell check function. I was going, and now am adding a point 4: Why doesn't Google recognize a contraction is an acceptable spelling?
9 comments:
Have you reported this bug? If they don't know about it, they won't fix it. I've never had this happen, but I compose in the "Edit HTML" window and code in all the html myself.
I've always looked at Google as a 21st Century Microsoft. Have you ever asked anything of Microsoft? It just never occurred to me to write an Email. Do you have any idea where the link is? If I wrote an Email, would anyone read it? Most pressing, given that the Blogger thing is free, would anyone do anything about my quirky problems?
Off subject, Cuban sandwich = good. And, I screwed up on the temperature thing to allow carry over. I had turned down the heat when the internal temperature hit 155. I then left it in at a lower oven temperature for an hour, taking it out at a too high 165 considering carry over.
The Blogger guys monitor the Help Groups (you can get there from the Dashboard page of Blogger). On a quick glance, I didn't see anyone with your exact problem.
I think I may know why it is doing this, however. The font specified in the template you are using is "Georgia Serif", not Arial. That is why all your text is defaulting to that. I think that your problem would go away if you edit your template to specify the font you actually like.
I can help you if you want to try changing your template. You can email me at my user name [at] yahoo.com and I will send you the changes you need. If it doesn't work, you can always change it back.
I tried some experiments with a "fake blog". It is definitely your template. Get that fixed and you won't have to change the font in every post.
Dave -- In defense of Google, what Blogger is doing is exactly what it is supposed to do. In HTML you are supposed to develop styles and then apply those styles to your text. What Fermicat is suggesting is a modification to the style sheet that governs your styles.
See, if you set the font with a hard specification to Arial and then later down the line decided you wanted to use something like Verdana, you would have to manually go through and change every hard coded font specification. Using styles, all you have to do is update the style specification, and then all the text using that style is updated automatically.
Oh, and also, your problem is with the WYSIWYG editor that Google offers. Dollars to donuts, Google didn't develop it themselves, but instead licensed someone else's product for inclusion. And guess what -- all WYWIWYG editors *suck* at rendering HTML. All of em. Never ever seen one that didn't.
You want your code to look exactly the way you specify it? The cold hard facts are, you gotta learn HTML and code it by hand...
I've been promising myself and others to learn HTML for awhile now.
My problem is that I don't need to know it for anything else but the great but small, Rather Than Working empire. Oh, and the commercial site that I don't seem to be progressing towards.
HTML is cool. That was a nice side effect of having the blog -- it forced me to learn more about HTML.
Commenting on your last comment: But learning HTML is fun and of itself -- anything other than practicing law, don't you think?
WYSIWYG? Too use another acronym, WTF? At least HTML is shorter, and, I actually know what it stands for.
To add to my technological angst, I just bought a new tower (that comes with a "free" 19" flat panel) because my current tower has a bit of a grinding noise when I power up. Don't want a hard drive crash. Now I get to be all Vista all the time, hoping that my Office 2000 program will work on Vista. One Dell person says no, the other says it will.
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