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How can I add captions below my photos ?

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I post to blogger, which doesn't have captions in their online editor. I decided to use WLW in the hopes that I can enter captions beneath my pix that I upload. The best I was able to do was add a watermark. Any ideas or suggestions ?Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:58 AM
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Any ideas ?Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:03 PM
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simarc,I create a table with 1 col, 2 rows.I put the picture in the top row, the text for the caption in the bottom row.Hope this helps.Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:11 PM
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Thank you. It helps. Do you know why the software doesn't have a more automated way of doing it considering all the fantastic bells and whistles that it has ? I mean it has the ability to rotate and tilt photos, but no ability to do captions ?Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:21 PM
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Not sure. Perhaps it's because this doesn't take as much effort as rotating / tilting photos.Who knows, maybe someone will create a plugin in the near future.Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:32 PM
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As a suggestion, I’d create a template; how you want the table to be, copy the HTML and use plug-in to insert the code anytime you want.
You can use a nice little tool called Dynamic Templates.
Website:
http://www.joecheng.com/code/DynamicTemplate/
You can do other things too; it's quite configurable to various things Windows Live Writer doesn't do by default.
I use this to INDENT text:
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><br /><%= _selection %></p>
Download here:
http://wlwtemplate.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=7199
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
L. Henry Jr.
http://www.lehsys.comThursday, February 18, 2010 1:03 AM -
Wow. I'm surprised no one mentioned the Polaroid Picture plugin. It's awesome. It lets you add captions to photos in the area where the white space is on a real Polaroid One-Step picture. You can also rotate it and what not.
Go to "Add a plug-in" in Writer and you should see it pop up close to the top of the list.Tuesday, March 2, 2010 8:13 PM