Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Playing around with my blog

I have always been disappointed with how my photos look when uploaded to blogger. They never appear on the blogscreen the way they look on my computer. And of course, I never gave it any thought that I could fix it until recently.

Here's the problem with starting this blog four years ago. I set it up so that I could spend minimal amount of work maintaining it. All I do is write my posts and go. Four years is a long time in technology and so much has changed!

I've changed my template, removed my blogroll (again), and pared it down to the basics: stories and photos of my kids. I've also decided to move my photo hosting to flickr. Here is an example of why I'm moving.

I took a sweet shot of the boys on the dock at Jon's mom's house. I spent some time editing it and then here is what the photo looked like when I uploaded it to blogger:




Here is what the photo looks like when I host it at flickr, looks like the photo I spent (minimal) time editing:

IMG_8208.Edited

5 comments:

ElizabethE said...

Oh my! Not only bigger, but noticeably better!

Megan said...

much better. clearer. sharper focus.

Becky @ Our Sweet Peas said...

Love it! I always find it a bit annoying when my not so great quality pics look even worse on blogger ;) Yours start out great but you are right they look even better from flickr.

mames said...

i love it. when i started using flickr, i felt so much better about how the photos appeared. now if i could just figure out the rest of the template.

Sandra said...

What a huge difference!