blogger glitches :: what to do where, when, & how

One of my least favorite things about anything are the minor, seemingly insignificant glitches. It means I have to stop what I'm doing (ugh) and either fix it or change it. It's annoying, repetitive, intrusive, and unavoidable. Or is it?

Here are a couple glitches on Blogger -- some of them are fixable, others are just there. Read on and see if you've noticed any! Comment below if you've experienced any of these. If you don't experience a certain glitch in the list, tell me. I'd love to know whether it's Blogger or just my computer(s)! If there are any I haven't listed that you've noticed, tell me about them. I'll add them to the list. ;)

{ updating posts }

This is probably one of the most frustrating of all of them. When you edit a post, you normally have either something to add or you have a small, minor change to make (e.g., you misspelled a word). Almost every time you hit the edit button, you're just going to be there for a few seconds. You definitely don't want to be there for more than a minute! This might just be my computers' problems, but I don't think so.

The problem: you click "edit post" (the pencil). Post pops up, you edit, then when you click "update", a new post pops up! Yes, it saves the updated post. But it also creates a NEW post. Huh? Did you click "new post"? NO. So why...? Right, that's the glitch.

{ changing the alignment }

Basically, you can change whether you want the text towards the left, towards the right, or centered. Examples are like the following:

This is an example of text that is aligned left. All of the words start at the same point on the left, but not all of them end at the same point on the right. You see what I'm saying? It's not totally evened out on the right like it is when it's aligned on the right. This is all just fluff so that you can see what I mean but this is what it means to be aligned on the left.

This is what it looks like when it's aligned in the center.

It's not very attractive unless it's a title and then it's much more attractive.

Now this is really UNattractive. It's very very hard to read and I can't think of any reason why you would want something aligned on the right. To me it's a pain because it's hard to watch the words come pouring out of your cursor and be like "yup I'm typing this". You feel?

the problem: this actually just happened to me while I was writing this post. It happened when I tried to center the "updating posts" part. It just would not center it! I don't know why, but the other ones were fine and did what they were supposed to do. I highlighted it and hit the "center" button, I erased the words and tried to hit "center" (hoping it would center and I could write the words). It's super frustrating.

the solution: erase the words you want to center (caution: you may want to ctrl + copy the words, so that you don't have to remember what it was you wanted to type...but you might not want to [see glitch four]...just saying). Then hit the "center" button (looks like five lines all running vertically...it's a drop-down menu at the top), and start typing whatever it was you wanted center. Problem solved! ...ish.

{ pressing "enter" after centering the text }

the problem: it will enter the space, but your cursor doesn't travel down, it just stays exactly where it is.

to fix it: simply use the down arrow and the cursor will continue below. Inconvenient, but necessary.

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