Saturday, June 25, 2011

Formatting Issues Here At Blogger.com

© Mark W. Pettigrew

I've been blogging here at Blogger.com for quite a few years, and for the most part, I've been pleased with that service. But one thing that annoys me a bit is that formatting one's text can be somewhat unpredictable. One may review one's blog post in Compose mode, and one may see that every paragraph has a blank line between it and the following paragraph (the way I generally prefer, for ease of readability). One may hit publish, only to discover that some paragraphs have lines of space between them and the following paragraph, and others do not. Really annoying, and a good way to create published pages which look a bit less than professional.

It may be that always remembering to hit Preview and check things out before actually publishing one's posts is the best way to avoid the problem. I'm definitely going to try that.

Meanwhile, know that I plan to create "reader friendly" versions (in PDF format) of each and every one of these blog posts. So even if you get less-than-perfect results when viewing these posts in your browser, you'll hopefully have access to good printer-friendly versions of the posts for printing purposes.