civilized ku # 97 ~ here I go again
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 11:13AM 
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to embiggenMy apologies to those of you without large screen monitors who may be having problems seeing the last couple of picture popups in their entirety. Since the introduction of the "new and improved" version of SquareSpace software, I have been unable to specify scrollbars and resizing for the popup windows.
Repeated questions to SS support about how to do this in the new software - it was easy to do in the older "unimproved" version - meet with this reply:
Sorry for the confusion -- adding this requires HTML knowledge to complete. A Google search should turn up some more information/tutorials on this for you.
Translated, this means, "Screw you. Quit bothering us. Figure it out for yourself. If you don't want to make the considerable effort to convert to the new platform, tough luck. Just remember, we're the experts - we giveth and we taketh away. Deal with it."
My frustration on this point has actually had me investigating a return to blogspot. The old Landscapist is still there, sitting idly by. But, of course, that leaves me in the position of having to keep paying these upgrade-fiends just to keep all my work from the past 2 years intact. Not to mention the confusion that might result for those who follow this web address.
In any event, in the interim I have a web programmer trying to figure out if and if so how to add scrollbars and resize capability to the popups.
Reader Comments (4)
thus far, I think the programmer's response is going to be "I suggest going back to blogspot". Just a hunch.
Why not switch to Wordpress?
what about WordPress as a blogging host? i typed before i read the other comments!
I really don't think we meant "screw you" -- but there are always kinks to work out in our support. It sounds like they misunderstood you -- could you forward me the correspondence (my email is included on this post)
Two things:
1) This is actually an easy change on our side -- and I've included it in the nightly release. It will be there tomorrow. That popup window hasn't had scrollbars for 2 years though, so I don't think this is a new issue. Also, you can work around it by resizing images -- I don't think you actually want a massive image, right? You want a displayable one?
2) I actually just tried this in WP, which doesn't even offer this feature. It just plainly links to your image hosted on the server, and doesn't attempt a better experience. I'm sure you've tried this.
Hope this helps!