Playing with gadgets

I know I need to get cracking with this blog if I am to finish on time, so I'm off to the library site to see what I'm supposed to do next. In the meantime, I've experimented with some new gadgets down the right side.

Image generator fun

I've never heard of online image generators before, so it was great fun to go and play with FotoTrix. Here's my photo with speech balloon. 

I chose the link that has a picture of a baby and says 'Make comics'. 

I ended up with two speech balloons on top of each other. I couldn't see any way to fix this problem and finally had to close my browser, Safari, and open up Firefox. 

If I understood the site correctly, they host the photo for a few hours. I think if I had been patient and gone back in a few hours, my messed-up photo would have been gone and I could have started all over again. Not sure, though.

I then right-clicked the photo to download it to my desktop and then used Blogger's photo icon on the bar above to include it here. 

still practising blogging

Had a rather inauspicious blogging start today, because I forgot which email address I'd used to set this up. However, a few tries finally revealed the one that Blogger would accept. 

I'm trying out some 'features' down the right side of the blog. Adding a photo worked okay, but I found the inclusion of Google News didn't interest me, and I didn't have any YouTube channels I wanted to include.

But I'm having fun experimenting. I do have another blog that I write on regularly but I'm too nervous to experiment with it, so it stays in the same format month after month. With this course I feel free to try things out.  

By the way, the other blog is called mydog. 

Just had the idea of experimenting with the bar across the top of this text box. I'm okay at putting in links, but I'll try out some other things. 

First, a different font and a different size.

Second, colour. (Hey, this is fun.)

Okay, now to play with some formatting of the text.

A list of ideas to try:

• YouTube
  
• Flickr
  
• More photos
  

I'm out of ideas. 

But as I learn more

 Notions will fill

My head.

I must say, all this font and colour mix-up looks terrible. I've learned a lesson and I won't use it so much in future. 

I've had a try at adding a blog counter, also.

My first post

I'm experimenting on this new blog with adding all sorts of 'features'. I guess I'll be changing them around when I see how they go.