Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Finally decided to play around with the html of my blog. I've been wanting to make the "body" column wider to fit my ginormous pictures in for quite some time. At first, I played around with re-sizing the pictures, which a lot of people do--and it makes sense to do--but I like my pictures nice and BIG!

I found a good width, so when I link my pictures they won't overlap my links on the right. This is all well and good for picture-posts, but when I scrolled down to my long and rambly posts with no pictures, they were a bit tougher to read. I enjoy a smaller width for reading, sort of like a newspaper, so I decided to bump up my font size a couple of notches. The old, extra small text, along with the new, wide columns made for quite the squint-fest. I looked into changing the type of font, but I wasn't really sure how to go about doing that.

Not really sure how long I'll keep this setting, but I like the change for now. If there are any catastrophic hiccups (ones that might induce computer heart-attacks) on your end, let me know!

Blogging Questions

1) How do I create a title for each post? In years past, it seemed like the title was just the top line of my post. Now when I make a post, the title just seems to run on forever (ex: I'd like the title of this post to be "Blogging Questions" not "Blogging Questions 1) How do I create...")

2) When seen at home on my laptop with firefox, the links show up on the upper-right portion of the page. When I view my blog from work on Internet Explorer, the links don't show up until the very bottom right. I know where the html code is in the template thingie on blogger, but I'm not sure how to always keep it in the upper right (no matter which browser is viewing the page).

3) My posts are usually photo-ridden, is there a way to cut down on the number of posts per page? This might be an easy one I can look up myself, but my pages are REALLY long right now, and tons of pictures load that people will rarely, if ever, check out, because they are so far down the page. I think keeping maybe 3 or 4 posts on the front page would be a good number?

4) Picture fun. I actually sort of like the huge pictures I put on the blog, but I don't really like it when the pictures cover up the links. Also, sometimes I would like to size-down the pictures a bit.

5) Frames. I've never been good with frames in html, but I have a wide-screen monitor, and the text of my blog only takes up about 1/3 of the page at most. There is a lot of blank space when I have the window full-screen. The narrow column makes for easy reading, which I like, but I'd either like to make it a little wider, or add some of those nifty freeze-frames, which allow me to keep two background images on either side of the text frozen (not tiled).

Any help is appreciated! I'll be looking into solving these questions myself too, so this post serves as a friendly reminder to yours truly as well as a cry for help to all you blogger-savvy friends of mine out there.