Once a week I visit all my students blogs to provide them with feedback. The feedback chat takes between 10 and 15 minutes each and is mainly organized into three categories: relevance / coherence of the blog contents, writing quality and layout / format of each post. One question arose quite frequently, How can you place two or more images together in the same paragraph? We tried out many things: we used text flow tools (unfortunately the text did not flow the way we wanted), we placed some HTML tags (for some inexperienced users this seemed to be too complicated and a waste of time) and in some cases we finally used the "<table>" tag.
Some students liked the idea of using the "<table>" HTML tag and they are using that "old fashioned" tag to arrange elements in a web page. As Blogger allows us to insert our own CSS, I'm planning to "migrate" those old fashioned tables to CSS markup descriptors in the near future, but that is a topic for a different post. Other students preferred to use another kind of tool.
What about using an image editor to arrange images as a collage? then we would use the collage as a solid image, composed with the smaller images as components of the bigger one. The authors of the post would have to insert a single image file, still looking like a complex arrangement of different pictures. An example, the following image is a unique file, containing several others as components:
Now, here you have a nice tutorial to learn how to create a collage.
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