Bilocating

[poliphilo]

People keep quitting LJ. It's a regular drip drip drip. Some are now on DW and some have withdrawn to FB (whither I refuse to follow them).  I have chosen- as have many others- to bilocate. DW feels safer and cosier- with its cottage industry ethos- but LJ is still where (what's left of) the action is- and is where I still have most of my conversations.

DW is a little bit clunky. Where LJ automatically resizes images to fit the format DW expects you to do it for yourself. I spent a good while yesterday trying to figure out how to stop my pictures swamping and over-lapping their frame. The upside is I've learned a new skill..

Comments

[halfmoon_mollie1]

More people should learn that skill. I can't tell you how many times my message page is overtaken by a HUGE picture.

[poliphilo]

Yes, it's annoying.

[tagryn]

Is the solution to set the height and width manually in the HTML code, or is there an easier/simpler way?

[poliphilo]

I've been resizing pictures in paintbox before posting them. It's another way of doing things but I don't suppose it's any simpler.

[sorenr]

When you insert an image in a post you can actually choose the width and height - just set one of them and the other will adjust automatically to retain the aspect ratio.

[poliphilo]

Right. That looks handy.