We are testing the new Blogger commenting system. This is only a test.

A nice tutorial on getting started (or getting someone else started) with Blogger, here.

Performance was apparently slowed by the flooble chatterbox so I have removed it. I've also changed the appearance around.

Added a flooble chatterbox to the side bar for immediate chatter, shouting, blabbering and so on. Now comments can be semi-permanent and associated with a particular post by clicking "comments" under a post, or temporary and not associated with a particular post by using the chatterbox.

I have added comments functionality to this blog using the free comment system from Blog Speak. Free is good. To comment on or ask questions about any post or to read the existing comments just click the highlighted "comments" below it. The number in parenthesis following "comments" is the number of existing comments for that post. I have not used Blog Speak before, so this is an experiment;

Camera and other images can be 1 mb or more. This is much too big to post on a website. They will take too long to download and use up a lot of web server disk quota. To reduce their size use the software that came with your camera or computer. If you need software to do this, try the free JPEG Resizer utility here. You can reduce the file size by reducing the image size and/or increasing

I've added a link at the left to a session that illustrates using a simple command line FTP client like the one that comes with Windows to create directories on your web server. This can be useful because Blogger will not create directories on your web server. But, once you create them, then Blogger can post or upload files to any directory. Here is the sample session.

From the Blogger New Post screen, click upload file. Browse to the image on your computer. For the upload path I entered "images/" (without the quotation marks). This puts the file in the images directory on your server - a good idea. Now a link to the image would look like this: Tankits.jpg. And, the image in line would look like this: . The Blogger help on uploading images is here.

While logged in as Stephen, I added myself as a member of this blog. Now, when I make a post it will be signed by me, assuming that I logged in as me. That gives me access to this blog only, not all of the blogs on this website. Of course, at the moment, I can still sign in as Stephen and cause (or fix) problems elsewhere. Blogger knowledgebase help on multiple team members is here.