commentary related question, or "help!"

[janne_d]

Being a numpty I have just realised that the story I volunteered to comment on by Kaneko contains both bullet points and a picture. Now, I can copy the picture with the text off her website, but how do I then get the picture as part of an lj post when I post my commentary?

And how do you do bullet points and an indent on lj? I don't think the format of those will copy over from Word either.

Not that I've actually started commenting yet, but I figure I'd better ask these questions now rather than when I'm actually trying to post!

Comments

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Hm, bullet points and indents I have absolutely no idea about, sorry.

But posting a picture is pretty easy: save the picture by itself, click the "insert image" button (below the subject line) and it will upload the pic into your scrapbook and include the code in your post. (It will, though, put the code right at the end of your post, so you'll need to move it.)

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I shall now go play for a bit and see what happens.

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

html it as an unordered list. So
<ul>
<li> List item one
<li> List item two
...
</ul>

God, I'm a geek.

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

And putting an image in through html
<img src="urlofyourimage" alt="description" height="inpixels" width="inpixels">

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Okeydoke. And being a geek is a very useful thing!

*goes to experiment*

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

Dogbert!

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Help! (again)

Okay, the bullets work beautifully, thank you.

But the pic... well, I uploaded it from a file using the "insert image" button like Tora suggested. According to my PC, it is 329 pixels wide and 425 tall. But LJ insists on making it smaller than that, and when I try to change the height and width in the code to make it the right size again, I lose the resolution and it goes all fuzzy.

Any suggestions, oh goddess of posting tricky things?

fingers crossed

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of guessing, but posting images within eljay, the code-robot-thing instantly makes images above a certain size into thumbnails which link to the original image.

So you've got something like
[a href="imagelocationwithafewrandomletters"]
[img src="blahblahblahs/randomletters" ...]
[/a]

first remove both halves of the link [a href="..."] and [/a]so you get
(I had to look at one of mine to get the code)
[<img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/buzzylittleb/pic/000y6wyx<b>/s320x240</b>" alt="Constructed reality no 1" height="240" width="320" border="0" /] Remove the part in bold face (this gets rid of the thumbnailing), then change the dimensions to the dimensions of the original picture(or the browser will squish your big picture to fit the teeny tiny dimensions). This should work. I hate eljay's picture posting wizard with the warm of a thousand suns. I always have to adjust things

Re: fingers crossed

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeeees! It worked! And I've saved the code that worked so I don't have to work it out again.

*kisses your feet in gratitude*

You genius, you.

Why the frick does it have to be so complicated?

Re: fingers crossed

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

Yay! *dances*

It has to be complicated because it's more likely to break down, so 6A will keep Brad on the payroll as he's the only guy who knows where the code is.

*whacks 6A with a spade and buries them behind the red barn*

Re: fingers crossed

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Whoops: Brad is apparently leaving (http://valleywag.com/tech/brad-fitzpatrick/livejournal-creator-leaves-as-six-apart-fails-to-spin-286218.php).

Maybe he'll dance on that grave behind the red barn. Wearing his code as a cape.

Re: fingers crossed

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

OMG!Llamas.

I can't even tell if I should be happy or sad about this.

Looks like I'll be running backups soonish.