A Big Thanks to my Readers

I thought I would take a moment to say thank you to all of you who take the time read and comment on this blog. I had not checked my stats in a while and when I saw this I thought it was worth sharing. 

I have so many new images to post but I have not had much time to get to them but here is just one from the Bronx Zoo that I shot on Friday.

Christmas Lights

My other Blog

Recently I decided to break my blog into two. So from now on I will be posting photos, and photography related things here at
sethmcallister.com/blog/ and posting personal things, snapshots, and other random stuff I feel like sharing at sethmcallister.com/snapshots/.

Please check them both or use a feed reader like Google Reader to subscribe to my blog with the links below.

Seth McAllister Photographs | Blog


Seth McAllister | Snapshots

How to Use Large Images on Blogger

Tyler asked me how I made my Blog in wide format and I want to answer his question but first I need to give credit to Blaine for giving me the idea to do this. I had thought of this before but never got around to doing it until Blaine did it and I saw how much better it looks. Thanks Blaine.

It's actually really easy but this how to will only work if your using Blogger on your own server, FTP style. The "New Blogger" is different and uses different templates. I will see if I can work it out and will post that later.
So here it is, in all it's large images glory.

Step 1
Login to your Blogger account and go to your template page. Find the code you see in the image below listed under "#header {", this is the width of your entire blog. Change it to "width 970" like you see below.



Step 2
Find the code you see in the image below listed as "#content {", this is the width of the table that holds all the content on your blog. Change it just like you did above.



Step 3
Just below the "#content {" you will find some code that says "#main {", this is the width of your posts. Change it to "width 720" like you see below. You will need to save the images for your blog the same 720 px wide to post them. The last thing to do is test your work, hit preview and see how it looks. If you are happy with it save the template and re-publish your blog to see the changes on all your pages.



Step 4
The only other difference is that you don't use the normal images uplaod anymore. You know the one with the little mountain on it. Instead you will upload your 720 px wide images withe the one that looks like a page. See the image below.


Find the image you want to upload and hit the "UPLOAD" button.


After that you will see this screen, just hit "DONE"


And now your really done.

I hope this is helpful to you all and I will post another how to for the "New Blogger" soon.