Monday, 18 November 2013

Computer says "No": Workarounds in setting up the blog


So I had about 10 minutes before a meeting this afternoon and thought I would set up this new blog.  I already have a small number of blogs already on blogger .  Two are not currently very active, but my Welsh one is, and my profile therefore was in Welsh.  Hence I needed an English profile (as the original would probably be a tad inaccessible). I thought it would be problematic setting up a new blog with a different profile (in English) so thought I'd explore setting up my new blog.  

Guess what?  After filling in the required form to enable me to have a blog, the "submit" button on the form was not active - and I could get no further.  I checked again and could not see where I was making an error - so reloaded the form and tried again.  Still no luck.  Googling led me to see that others had had similar problems - but no advice on overcoming it.  With 5 minutes of my time gone, I resorted to going back to Blogger.  As it was ages since I had originally created my profile I could not remember how to edit it, and it was not obvious how to do it.

But after a little while (probably now over my 10 minute limit), I had a new blog - with a title in print that is larger than I want - and that has somehow lost the photo I previously had (as I played with the design), and has a profile that now does not quite fit the other blogs. 

All I want is a design where what I need to do is intuitive and simple.... but enough moaning and on with the course.


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