I'm going to pull my hair out!

Is anyone else having trouble saving their images to their template? For some reason the images I had on my site uploaded from Picture Trail had a white background even though they are in gif. Once I changed my background color to brown they no longer look good. So I uploaded the same pics to homestead and replaced the ones from Picture Trail in my template. When I upload to homestead you can't see a background, and that's the way it's supposed to be. It says they're saved but when I go back into my template to do something else, there are the Picture Trail pics back again. I cannot not rid of Picture Trail! It keeps coming back like a bad penny.

I've been doing this over and over since last night, but it keeps changing back. Right now, I've managed to keep a few of them up, that is until they disappear again. I emailed support last night but they haven't replied yet. Anyone else having this problem?

Sarah

A perfect browser?

First let me sing the praises of Opera. I love it! I installed it a couple of days ago and it's my favorite browser by far. I especially love the "notes" section where you can write things down as they come into your head, make lists within folders, copy things of interest from websites to refer back to, etc. I mainly use it as my "to do" lists. It's so much better than pulling up my Word lists I have saved on my desktop, and Opera notes can stay in a narrow (or wide) column to the side, top, or bottom of the screen at all times, or I can hide it.

Opera is the fastest browser I've used. I used IE for years, then installed Firefox about one and a half years ago. I fell in love with FireFox because it was so much faster than IE and I loved the "tabs" system of opening up different sites in the same window. But Opera also has the tabs system I love and it's even faster than Firefox. I have dial up and IE crawls and drives me nuts!

As far as security, IE is lacking compared to the other two I mentioned. I think mainly it's because it's the most widely used and hackers concentrate on it. That's just my opinion, I'm no expert. I've read up on the security of the different browsers, and Opera and Firefox seem to pull ahead of IE.

Opera will also automatically connect to the internet for you, using your default ISP, which means you don't have to manually tell your computer to dial and then bring up your browser afterwards. Just bring Opera up and it does it for you.

Now; drawbacks: some images in Opera are fuzzy on certain websites. I thought it was because of my accelerator, but it didn't help when I disabled it. I've changed every setting I can think of and so far nothing works. The majority of sites I have a clear image. I think the reason for this is because not all sites support the Opera browser, just as some don't support Firefox. But I still never had the fuzzy image problem with Firefox. Some of these webmasters need to get out of the past and catch up with all the new browsers and support them. Microsoft has had a monopoly on the browser world for too long.

I still have to bring IE up to post when I'm putting an image into my entry. On Firefox, all you see when you post an image is a box. I don't know about Opera yet, except on Homesteadblogger entries, the 'rich' entry box is not there; only the html version. It may work on some other site.

Gmail...has been a real problem with Opera. It took me a few hours to figure out I had to bring up the html version of it for it to work. Now it's working fine, but I'm not crazy about the appearance of the html version.

I'm going to email Opera support tonight and ask about all these 'bugs' and if they can give me an answer on how to resolve them. If they can't, I'll still stick with Opera just for the speed of surfing, the tabs, security, and the notes. It's no problem for me to bring up IE to post. All in all, even with its few bugs, Opera is at the top of the heap in the browser world. I'm keeping it!

Sarah

Working on my "virtual" homestead..

I've spent the evening working on my site, putting up a lot of new links to other sites and some new categories for links. Believe it or not, I have accumulated well over a thousand bookmarks over the past few years! It was only in the past year that I got enough sense to put them in specific folders, so that leaves the rest of them "out there" to muddle through trying to find what I'm looking for. When I can find the time (yeah, right!) I need to bookmark again in the correct folders and delete the site in the other place. Guess that will have to fit in with my everyday or other of scanning my old pictures and papers. Scroll down my page until you see "links to other sites by catergories" to see them.

I'll try to get around tomorrow night and visit some. I visited some earlier today, but still didn't get around to everyone. You all have such interesting reading I don't want to miss out!

Sarah