Pop Goes the Artist!

I have spent the last few evenings not studying for finals, but instead beating myself over the head with Wordpress plugins and CSSSSS and PHPHP and HTML and goodness knows what else, all trying to accomplish one small thing:

Making my pictures pretty in my posts.

All I want is to post a picture and not have it eat into the next post if it’s bigger than the text that accompanies it, plus figure out how to make the margins between the picture and the text a comfortable size.  My wildest dream is to have thumbnails that the reader can click on that will open a pop-up window featuring the full-size version of the photo.

(In fact, I found a plug-in that (supposedly) does just that, but it Does. Not. Work.  It gets halfway there and gives up.  Oy.  Also, the thumbnail does not integrate gracefully with the text.)

(Then I found another plugin that (supposedly) makes Wordpress into a nice photoblog and yay and oops!  That has all the same issues that I was previously having without any plugins whatsoever.  Oy.)

So long story (sort of) short, I’ve decided all of this failure and frustration is the Internet’s way of saying, “Jeesey petes, woman!  Enough with all this CSSSSSSSSS crap!  Your blog mostly works, so stop nitpicking and make some gosh darn art, gosh darn it!

And you know what?  I think the Internet has a point for once.  It is now past midnight, so I should go to bed, but tomorrow, after I get off work, I will sketch and maybe write up a brief review of one of the current exhibits at the National Gallery.  But mostly sketch.

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