DrJoolz Snapshotz on Life

I would refuse to go on this ride if I had to sit in the biggest person seat.

There is a really annoying thing to do with computers. When I changed my blog from this site to this one, I did the work on my pc. I messed about to try and get the pictures as dammit to the same size as each other. It took a few hours I reckon. Then, I checked what the whole thing looked like on my Apple Powerbook. When I looked on the Powerbook, the beautifully arranged pictures above the title bar were all squashed up and looked horrible. So I fiddled about quite a lot more with the photos and got them OK again. So phew.

But.

Today I went into the office and checked out the blog and it was all over the place there, with the layout all higgledy piggledy. I messed around with it and changed the screen resolution and it looked OK again. So now I am thinking that the blog might look crap on most people’s machines. And this is one of the places where books win over screen based text as it will always look just one way.

This is what my blog looks like on my pc:

Maybe on your pc it does not look like that and you are wondering why I have switched to a nightmare layout.

Just to bore you some more, with another example… ..

I have just written a report for the DfES using the new fangled but not very nice looking Sheffield University font. (Yes , we have our own font as well as a ridiculous new university crest). And I wrote that report on my apple powerbook. I bet you can guess what is coming. After doing all the contents pages (took ages again as had to use loads of bullet point number thingies) I then e mailed the report to the DfES . And when I opened the attachment to check it was AOK, I found that that pathetic and not very attractive, new font does not travel well on e mail and all the page numbers went everywhere and margins screwed up etc etc. So that is rubbish too.
Why did the university not test if it would swop from one platform to another?? (Please not how we have to write ‘The University Of Sheffield.’ with a capital ‘O’ in ‘Of@ and end it with a fulltop!!!!????)

And why do you have to have a stupid font just for the uni???

I am not using it again.

It is rubbish.

Hmmph.

So, am I the only one this type of stuff happens to?