Friday Foto FriendsBy the Sea

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  Diamonds on the water in late afternoon always dazzle the eyes.

A  lovely clear and breezy day by the bay.

How to Make a YouTube Video Play Automatically on Embed

Sound on a website fell into disfavor because people listen to their own music while surfing the web. But I think sometimes it lends a nice ambiance to a blog and can set the tone for the feeling you wish to convey.
If some don't like it they can easily shut it off.
I make my video player very small but large enough so that sound controls show up on mouse over.
I find placing it at the very bottom makes it unobtrusive but if your sidebar is wide enough you can place it there. Just be sure it is wide enough for sound and on/off controls to show up.

So here is how it's done.
You will need to right click on the image  to enlarge it to full size so you can see them properly.

Just be sure to place the autoplay instruction in the right place in your code.
If you need further help let me know.
Better yet, try this professional site that explains it very well.

How To Remove "Title" on Blogger Gadgets

I 've been sitting here at my desk working on my Blogger template.

 Blogger has switched to https for security reasons and so I am revamping my template here and there
to accommodate things and it is a good chance to clean up and change around the blog a little bit.

One of the things I do not like is that you must provide a title for your images on Blogger. It's not a big deal but it does take up space where I post some photos I have taken around my neighborhood.
I just don't want to have to provide titles for everything on my side bar.


 If having to use a title on confiture images is not what you wish to do either, you can place this in the title bar and no title will show up: <!– –>
 You can highlight this code and simply paste it into the title space.
Save it for future use too.

Here it is again:

 <!– –>


Now, this is great but there is a draw back! If you are working in the  "layout" area you might like titles on your gadgets so you can see what you are moving around when you decide to add/remove or exchange gadgets.
In that case you can just make the titles the same color as the background and they will be invisible on the site but visible to you in Layout.
I hope this helps you.
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How to Store Weather, Moods on Blogger

A partially sunny day and temperatures a wee bit higher but I still feel that spring chill in the air.

Blogger does not have a service to host your icons, mood girls, photos etc.  Sad but, it is a free blogging service and very good for the 'price' you must admit.
You can, however, host your photos and images at Photobucket, tinypic, Image Shack, etc. And Photobucket especially is a great place to save your images.
However, while keeping them there for safe keeping is a great idea they are not convenient for use on a daily basis. For blogging it is nice to have them right on hand.
I recommend saving them to a host like Photobucket etc and then copying and pasting the urls to notebook or wordpad and placing that on your desktop for quick use and reference.
But, another way is to host them right inside your own Blog.
Just copy and paste them in html to your post and then either save it as a draft or date it years ahead for future publication.
Here is how I host the days of the week icons I sometimes use:(click to make it larger)

This is a really good way to store them. I do this but I also keep them on notepad for very quick use. Since it is right on the desktop, it can be opened alongside Blogger and inserted quickly.















You just have to use the following formula in html mode and Blogger will do the rest for you. You can still use your align feature, etc and you can still size it anyway you please after the image is on the page.

This is the formula to place an image ::

Of course you insert your own url .
After it is in you can change the location and size with Bloggers features. So don't worry.

You can save anything this way.   I also save all my html tricks on a page within my blogs. This way there is no hunting for them.  But I keep them in several places so I never lose them.

I hope this is useful for you.