So I’m OK with uploading screenshots.
Let’s try a load of them. Here are some I made earlier…
Duh. Guess what, I clicked on the “Upload” text, not the funny allegedly-a-picture icon next to it.
Try again.
Lower half of that initial setup page, showing it is pretty small
So the default of full size seems OK.
When you click on “Next->” you get this:
The next page of the setup process
And clicking on “Signup ->” gives you this, if I remember right:
The activation screen
Then somehow you do the activation, via the emailed link, log in and get to the powerful but initially a bit daunting dashboard:
Oh. I must have clicked something wrong there. I uploaded it, but it seems to have gone into the gallery and not here into the blog posting. So how do I rectify that I wonder?
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- Lower half of that initial setup page, showing it is pretty small
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- The next page of the setup process
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- The activation screen
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- The initial dashboard
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- that first experience of a daunting dashboard
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- Trying to edit a blog posting
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- Problems with uploading images
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- after browsing for the image I just stop
well that wasn’t right. I think I inserted the whole gallery there. So what I think is going on here is that when you upload images, they also go into something called a gallery. But I don’t yet know what I did wrong. I must have clicked on something by accident when uploading the last image so it didn’t end up in the blog post but in the gallery. And now I don’t know how to fix it.
Well maybe the simplest way is just to upload it all over again. Let’s try:
that first experience of a daunting dashboard
OK that worked. This time I managed to click on “Insert into post”:
Problems with uploading images
So I think I know what happened. I must have accidentally clicked on “Save all changes” instead of “Insert into post”. That takes you into that gallery thing which for me at my current learning state is all a bit confusing. No doubt it will become clearer in time.
By the way, as I’ve been busily uploading screenshots in this post I’ve noted I keep doing the same thing wrong. I click on the icon, browse for the image I want (the screenshot I’ve previously taken, cropped and saved), and then I just sit there:
after browsing for the image I just stop
That is, I just sit there waiting for the interface to do something, and it just sits there waiting for me to do something. We’ve reached an HCI impasse. It is waiting for me to click on Upload, and I am waiting for it to do the upload, because I’ve already told it what to upload. So why do I just sit there like an idiot? Indeed why have I sat there like an idiot something like 4 times in a row? I think it is that for me, the act of specifying the file I want uploading implicitly means “Here is the file I want you to upload”. And so clicking on the “Upload” button, which means: “And I want you to upload it” is rather odd. Obviously the system wants me to say “Yes, I really really really want you to do this incredibly dangerous and expensive activity and I appreciate we have to say it twice just to make sure”. And frankly I don’t want to bother. Just do it for heaven’s sake.
Furthermore, it’s not like the interface makes it easy to do one last check: “OK here’s this file you want me to upload. Is it the right one? Are you really really really really sure?”. No I’m not, because the text box by browse is so tiny, I can’t actually see which file I have specified, so I’m not given any clue that is is a ‘one last check’ kind of conversation. So I just sit there for a few seconds until I realize that this is the interface that makes me go “Duh”. A lot.
I don’t like interfaces that make me feel stupid.
