User talk:71.242.178.21

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[edit] Cathedral

Hello user 7124217821!

Can I suggest that you get yourself a username and log in? That way you can keep track of your edits, even if you use a different computer, and it facilitates other people leaving you messages.

Several matters about editting:-

  • Look before you add. If all the pictures of churches are of horizontal format, and are all exactly the same width, then someone has designed the page like that. Yes, editors of pages associated with Art History subjects take great care over layout.
  • Look again before you add, to find out if previous edittors have used a particular method. In this instance, the way in which the pictures were formatted so that they would fit on both large and small screen without breaking up the text was to arrange them in groups at the top of each section. None of the pictures were inserted in the text. Attaching one picture to particular text then meant that the text and pics could no longer "float" in relation to each other.
  • Look after you add. If you had checked the the "Show preview" button, it would have been clear that the new addition wasn't working. I don't know how it looked on your browser, but on mine it forced a division in the text that was about 4 inches long.
  • Look creatively. Sometimes a picture can be inserted appropriately near the bottom of the article, in a gallery, or adjacent to the references or "See also" section.

I had to juggle some pictures to take into account another picture that has been deleted from wiki's files, so Llandaff cathedral is now down in the Gallery.

--Amandajm 12:32, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Yankee Doodle, it was not an accusation that I handed out, merely advice, and an explanation as to where the picture had gone, presuming it to be a new and in experienced, editor. I'm sorry thhat it was sent to the wrong person.

--Amandajm 10:34, 15 August 2007 (UTC)