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I want to do a weekly/daily music review online - what's the best way of going about this?

― dog latin, Monday, 20 October 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.blogger.com and fill in the blanks.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

yep blogger is good, easy to update and free hosting with a blogspot address.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

btw, mine is up n runnin' now, but...is it possible to put image links in the html? I have tried it without success...

― adaml (adaml), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, you can use image links on blogger posts, obviously the image needs to be currently sourced/ hosted correctly.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a few livejournal codes if anybody wants one...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, you can use image links on blogger posts, obviously the image needs to be currently sourced/ hosted correctly.

Really? because I have tried just putting an "i" before the image URL (as on ILX), and nothing happened. I'm doing it wrong, aren't I?

― adaml (adaml), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

where is the image currently hosted on the web?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It was a film poster site, I believe.

If that's the correct method, I'll try it again.

― adaml (adaml), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

try it on this thread !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.valhallacinemas.com.au/images/film_images/nine_queens_new.jpg

― adaml (adaml), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm...

― adaml (adaml), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

how to image link:

[img src="imageaddresshere"]

only replace the brackets with greater/less than symbols.

and there! now you can image leech with the best of them!

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d739/d73944019g1.jpg

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, there you have it.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, fishy.

― adaml (adaml), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

good film adaml!

― paulc, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that ihttp trick only works on ILX.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

good film adaml!

Yeah, I liked it (scroll down).

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

btw, can I put a pic in my sidebar? I can't get that to work.

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i started a blog too
while we're looking for help,can someone look at it and tell me if the formatting looks completely fucked up on the long post about venice?
it looked completely different in college to the way it looks at home,which is probably to do with my netscape being about three years out of date,but i'm not sure...
blogger seems to be less easy to use than it seems...

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

doh!
the address is
invisibleleadsoup.blogspot.com

by the way adam i like the look of your blog-good to see someone else that won't just be writing about music...

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

robin, that looks great-the formatting IS a little screwy on that post, though.

by the way adam i like the look of your blog-good to see someone else that won't just be writing about music...

I write what I know. And what I know is cheap videos from the local store. That said, all the next posts will prob. be about music.

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm loving it nordique... will read more tonight!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit, people are actually reading it?!?!

― False Modesty (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

adaml I wanna chime in and say I've really been enjoying your blog, keep it up.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah the screen to post entries is completely different at home and in college...
i think my mistake was to cut and paste the long post from notepad,which might have fucked up the formatting...
i've edited the post over and over again trying to sort it out though,i dunno what i'm doing wrong at this stage...
oh well,i'll keep trying...
cheers for the help adam,and good luck with the blog,i'll be keeping an eye on it anyway
(i'll probably end up back on this thread with some similarly inane problem in about ten minutes anyway)

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

My blog is on diaryland. It's pretty basic, but does the job for me. I've been posting there for like 3 years or so now. boo ya.

― SarahMcLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

what is the ettiquete as regards posting images to a blog?
i wanted to put up two painting by mark rothko that i found through google images,is this ok?
i think i probably will just go ahead and if the source objects i'm sure they'll email me...

― robin (robin), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

...unless that's considered really out of order...

― robin (robin), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ok,sorry to be so useless,but if someone could look at my blog and tell me if the two pictures are on top of each other,one partially eclipsing another,and both obscuring a lot of the text,i'd really appreciate it...
and if this is the case,how do i sort it out?
i suspect it might be to do with my browser being so out of date but i don't really know...
thanks...
http://invisibleleadsoup.blogspot.com

― robin (robin), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks fine to me.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 October 2003 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm...
must be the browser then,i'll have to update my computer properly,those pictures are all over the place when i look at it...
thanks oops...

― robin (robin), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

the hard part is not starting, it is keeping it going.

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i know,i started one ages ago and didn't keep it up...
hopefully this one will be more successful...

― robin (robin), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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