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@globcoco

>> It actually looks quite nice!

The forum post, I gather ? Yes, it can look exactly like a Blog, all the controls are there, and Markdown works wonderful.

Sometimes I write a full blog here, and just hone it up a bit more at Write.freely.

Or maybe you were referring to the cool post with the jet picture? I liked it too.

@design_RG
I was refering to both😊.
it's true that it feels like in a blog post.
You actually asked to @angedestenebres about image sizes. Did yshe replied to you?

@globcoco

I assume you are referring to the message I sent this morning, regarding the visual presentation in Write.freely ? no reply yet on that case.

The ideal is to use a maximum width of 640 pixels, these will NOT be scaled down and are fast to load, we control the quality.

I alternate between PNG and Jpeg formats, whichever compresses an image better, I try for the smaller size always.

@angedestenebres

@design_RG @angedestenebres
Yes I do refer to that.
I do have the same issue on WF but I really think it is my lack of CSS skills.
Some can define it right in there.
By the way did you check this blog?
blog.hummingcrow.co/
When you click on about, the logo changes...

@angedestenebres

Thank you, Ange, I just received the notification of your reply, appreciate your help!

@globcoco

@globcoco

the author has on-mouse-over effects included. Pretty, nice images.

But I really think the most important is the words, to keep them crisp and focused -- when I open a page directly, via it's URL, it looks superb, the view I had when I hit Publish.

I would like to have people see that same view.

And so far I have stayed away from changing any css, as I wanted to concentrate on content, and it presents quite nicely. There are some examples in a link, haven't looked sicne I wanted to avoid distractions when I was starting up, and so much was new already.

@globcoco

>> it's true that it feels like in a blog post.

Yes -- and to come back here and look at the oh-so-poor presentation Mastodon makes of it.

We need Markdown, so bad. Really sad to look at posts here and compare to what I do elsewhere.

@angedestenebres

@design_RG @angedestenebres
That's why you're a fervent advocate of Glitch-Social!
I get that.

@globcoco

Yes! I even have a collection of snapshots of posts I make there; sometimes I attach a copy here so people can see them the way it should be.

@design_RG
I heard some people who prefers to use if at all Latex.
I opened an Overleaf account a few weeks back to do my resume but I have yet to understand its language...
Thanks to @zleap and the links he gave I hope to apply myself soon.

@globcoco @design_RG

I spent some time this afternoon sorting out 3 bigbluebutton rooms for each the 3 part LaTeX course from the Overleaf website.

I made a text file with all the activity links too. But did that a while back, so included that too along with a LaTeX cheat sheet.

@globcoco

For writers I would think LaTex is overkill, it's best for science and math publications. For us wordsmiths, markdown does wonders already.

@zleap

@design_RG @zleap
Some are using it to create creative Resume with some icons for a cool presentation

@globcoco @design_RG
latextemplates.com/cat/curricu

I am using one of the templates, but so modified one of those. had to try one or two first to see how i got on with it.

@globcoco @design_RG

latextemplates.com/template/pl

As it seemed the easiest to edit, I ahve added a table to display courses attended (well the short ones)

Also for the personal details I can include name / address etc, then also comment that out and include a shorter version with just name / e-mail for uploading to places (privacy) but by commenting in / out

\begin{comment}
\end{comment}

I can switch between the two versions.

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