December 19, 2002
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Well, I ran my test on the blog size vs the banner size. Yep, that worked! Except that my banner is still badly blurred, no matter how much I sharpen the image in PSP before saving. 
I even completely emptied my cache, including most of what was in the Temp folder, hoping that might help. One thing I did notice when saving the banner as a .jpg from the .psp image is that I didn't get that warning message about the file limitations. Could it be that something's wrong with my PSP? I thought by emptying out the Temp folder (which contained a BUNCH of PSP undo files from when the program would crash or my computer lockup!) would resolve any PSP issues. It may help some, but didn't do anything for the clarity of the banner image that I would upload to Xanga. *Sigh*
As you can see, I now have a normal-sized banner. I did have to reset the page width to Full Screen & reupload the image. However, there is one more thing I had to do, which may be the factor causing the blurriness. I had to state the width in the header box for the banner, or it would still show up as that smaller one.
After running my experiment, achieving a normal-sized banner & unable to fix the blurring issue, I reset the page size for the text block. I didn't want to leave the text overrunning the right border. 
Another thing I noticed that doesn't normally happen is that the Premium Editor window, when checking the Edit HTML box, specified a size for the image... width=400 border=0. Since when is it supposed to do that? Ordinarily, when I upload an image into the editor, it displays it in the image's actual size. This gives me a good gauge of how the image will appear on my blog & is what I use to resize my image in PSP, to avoid losing image quality. I hoped that by clearing my cache, including the cookies, & having the setting to Full Screen, this would resolve the stated size in the text editor. It didn't It still specified the width=400, which may be fine for a pic in the body of a blog, but doesn't cut it for a banner.
PS-- Don't skip the blog below. It contains some other interesting tidbits!
Comments (4)
I'm not sure about the banner but I copied it and looked at the image info in PSP. What's probably happening is that the image size in Paint Shop says 400xsomething and the one on your page says 600something. The editor may be causing it. And I'm interested in knowing about that plant myself. I don't think they should be allowed to withhold information on it if it helps someone that's ill. That's just wrong! I hope you and Carl have a great holiday and a safe one!
If you view the image on the server page that it is linked to, it appears larger. I specified 850 as the width for this page. It has to be a problem with the programming of the servers storing the images & talking to the servers handling the Premium blogs/editor. I emailed Cheryl with the actual original jpg image that I uploaded. I am reasonably sure she saw the same thing that I created. It is just not what I got here on my blog. *Sigh*
...unfortunately, I'm a computer idiot, therefore most of your post is jibberish to me. However, from observation only, perhaps your background lends to the blurry banner? Love and energy,
MuSe
dear, sweet lady. i wish you a great christmas and all the love in the world.
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