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Post by Dave on Feb 18, 2012 18:50:03 GMT -5
OK, I changed the Blog Title font to Corsiva. Blogger doesn't offer Lucida as an option. It's close. Blogger had lots of fonts, but you'll have to go in and look at them since I can't duplicate them.
I changed colors a bit and extended a "John Deere" green border to the bottom of the page. I also reset fonts for the sidebar gadgets, the post title, etc. And I added text to your post of the Genesee Flats photo, plus I inserted an additional post below yours. I chose the text, content, etc. randomly. It's not supposed to make any sense. Also, I added a video on the gadget sidebar, leaving it original size and allowing it to break frame.
Let me know what you think. (Anyone!)
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Post by Dave on Feb 18, 2012 18:52:48 GMT -5
PS: Yes, that Genesee Flats original image is is the scan I did from your hard copy photo and it's 2700 pixels wide. Blogger seems to have a problem with any graphic that large. If Blogger does take it, it is unable to manipulate it. For example, I was unable to inset in the text and shove the photo left until I reduced the size of the copy of the photo that I uploaded.
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Post by fiona on Feb 19, 2012 20:09:53 GMT -5
I went there today and looked at your work and it is well done, but i couldn't find my original post about Latcher. I watched some of the video, but It made me cry, weep, it is so past life and so close to the bone. I felt as if "I was there again." I am still shaking. I will look at it again tomorrow when I am refreshed and then see what my next post should be. let's talk tomnorrow.
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Post by Dave on Feb 19, 2012 22:04:39 GMT -5
Fiona,
Sorry if I inadvertently removed your text on Latcher. Send to me and I'll put it back in the post with the Genesee Flats photo, if that's the post I removed it from. Yes, the video is intense.
Dave
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Post by Dave on Feb 19, 2012 22:09:36 GMT -5
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Post by fiona on Feb 20, 2012 13:25:03 GMT -5
I can't recreate the text on Latcher because I wrote it off the top of my head. I can give a stab at another similar, mabye tonight. Do I have your e mail or shall I post it here?
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Post by fiona on Feb 20, 2012 13:29:56 GMT -5
another complaint: I don't like that text picture of Annie in front of the Olbiston. The letter is beautiful, but we need to change that picture. It has to be in keeping with Mary B. I am going to post her later a photo of her visage as it exhists in the Olbiston. Then mabye we can use that or find a photo that looks like her. Sorry to be such A PIYA, but I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that that is her Mary B in the carving.
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Post by Dave on Feb 20, 2012 21:48:22 GMT -5
No problem. As I said, what I chose was random, just to see how any text and any picture lined up in the format. This is not finished work. Send me what you want posted. Send to: dave@windsweptpress.com Many of the photos we had settled on in the past are in the work repository on the WEBSITE, here: www.windsweptpress.com/ogh1.htm (the first of five web pages.) Also, I don't remember deleting your Latcher text. Are you referring to the following text? It was not deleted. You entered it as a comment, not as a post, so it doesn't show until you click on comments. Is the following the text you are referring to? "It was the building of his dreams, towering seven stories above Genesee Street, a massive red brick and silver granite edifice, a turreted and canopied behemoth, a haven for the well to do seeking to escape the crush and dirt of the commerce of the city...and on that April morning the working populace of Utica made it's way up Genesee Street for the initial opening. All day they came, from morning to night, in wagons and carriages, on foot and by trolley, they gathered under the canopy of elms to gaze upon the new building... and wonder, and whisper and chat about the lives of the residents who would eventually reside there...and Seymour Dewitt Latcher, one of the owners and builders, moved deftly among the crowd, assuring all that the building was safe. "Totally fireproof" he said. "Tours every hour", he said and he shook the hands of the men, and bowed low before the women and offered small taffies to the gaping children... it was his, this Genesee Flats Apartment House, and he reveled in the pride of it. Emotions ran high that day among the crowd. They loved it, marveled at it...or they hated it...it was "out of place," people said, "an eye sore among the spacious and beautiful homes of upper Genesee Street, Utica's millionaires row". "It would come to no good," some people said aloud."No light, no air, no place to bring up children." A rumor swept through the crowd that Latcher was in league with the Devil...one matronly woman, goodly and stout, a patron of Grace Church heard the tale and was so overcome that she fainted dead away and had to be carried to her carriage by two strong men... |
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Post by fiona on Feb 21, 2012 17:22:17 GMT -5
Yes. that's it. not real familiar with blogs so didn't know how to get at it. been real tired for the past week, but will try to post some here tonight.
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Post by Dave on Feb 21, 2012 21:10:10 GMT -5
OK, I hope you feel better soon. I changed Mary B's picture.
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Post by fiona on Feb 21, 2012 21:19:00 GMT -5
 Mrs Hughes. |
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Post by fiona on Feb 21, 2012 21:23:51 GMT -5
 Mrs Wood. |
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Post by fiona on Feb 21, 2012 21:27:25 GMT -5
 Mary B. Wood |
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Post by fiona on Feb 21, 2012 21:30:32 GMT -5
 Mary B. Wood |
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Post by fiona on Feb 21, 2012 21:45:11 GMT -5
Thank you so much Dave . I was able to view the video more dispassionatly tonight, if one can be dispassionate about such things. I like the new photo of Mary B very much, but I still can't "get at" my post. I have a second post to add now to add to the Latcher story and want to be sure it follows correctly. I need to know what you think about the process of my postings so far , or shall we begin with more intro stuff? I would like to leave the Collingwood video there. Now, can we add another video without moving that one? We are off to another start after all my reams of troubles, seem to have cleared up some what. be well and again, thank you.
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