And now it begins again for 2011

The planning for the 2011 Europe trip is well started, with a flight to Frankfurt via Singapore booked for 8-10 May. This is a test of the blogging capabilities of the iPad, which we found deficient in NZ.

Using Blogger.com within Safari doesn't work for photo inclusion. I've tried uploading to Picasa first, but not OK. I assume the lack of Flash stops the photo selection process from working.

So now I've switched back to the Blogpress app we used in NZ in November, and will see how it works with photos from Picasa, uploaded via the WebAlbums app. (The other big problem with BlogPress was that when you wanted to edit a post that included an external photo, which has to be coded by html img, it would only show you html to work in!!! That may have changed with updates since November.)




Blogpress works but ignores the existing Picasa album - the photo inclusion step uses photos from the iPad (which would be normal for a blog, and easier once the iPad has a camera) and makes a new Picasa album to store them. That means you can't include photos from the web unless you code them in html, which is what I was doing in NZ. That method works but it's slow and messy once you try to dress up the page, and tiring at the end of a day of travel, so after a while I stopped doing it.

Let's get a photo from the Picasa test album I created earlier. I'll let Picasa do all the coding, by selecting the option "link to this photo" and copying the code.

From Blogtest

And that seems to work as well as it might. The HTML appears in BlogPress in the midst of the normal text, but the other post elements are not disturbed, and it seems I can add other iPad photos OK.



That's enough for now; be back soon.