Image by Beesnest McClain on Flickr
which is on my mind recently since there'll be an exhibition about it at the Fitz in the autumn.
So I'm very happy with using Flickr. I am less happy, however, with using images in Blogger. I have two problems which I'm really struggling with:
The length of time it takes to use images from other websites. So far, every photo I've wanted to use comes from a website. In an ideal world, I click on "Add an image", then select "website address" and insert the URL, and a few minutes later, an image appears. However, I've been waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and nothing appears, so I've had to download every (or nearly every) single image I've wanted to use so far, in order to upload it from my hard drive instead (which takes seconds).
Captions. I want to credit the people who took the photos I'm publishing, I really do, but why is it so complicated to add a credit in Blogger? I tried following various instructions on help pages, but it involves an understanding of HTML that I really don't have. I lose my place very easily in the code, but I feel there needs to be a better way of adding a clickable caption than by just taking the text, shrinking the font and centring it underneath a central photo. Ideally I want a caption to be part of the photo so that I can have a photo and caption on the side of my text, but my experiments have been messy at best - as you can see!
