Hmmm - the problem with trying to blend blogs and docs.....

The problem with blogs is that they are great for web stuff, e.g. pictures and text, but sometimes embedding things that were designed for other environments gets complicated.

Apart from any error messages about documents not being found (in previous post) the major problem is that the right hand side of the embedded document gets overlayed by the bar at the side. This is not quite what we were aiming for and means that a big chunk of the embedded iframe is not visible.

I may have to revert to something more complicated.....

Testing embedding from google docs

I have been trying to help my mother-in-law with getting a googledocs presentation viewed properly by everyone on the distibution list. In desperation she has resorted to trying to embed the thing in a blog http://gsbdigest.blogspot.com/ . This has developed further complications, some of which are similar but not quite identical to the ones we experience earlier.
In an attempt to find a workable solution that requires minimum interaction from the viewers I am trying to duplicate some of the embedding here.

The blog finally reverts to the original purpose :)

I tested a selection of parameters....
large document, medium document in large iframe
medium document, large document in medium iframe.

As an example I have left them below but I found the following

1. large in medium cut big chunks off.
2. medium in anything sometime lost bits at the bottom of the page.
3. large seems to look okay (at least in preview)
   

I shall see what it looks like once I publish the photos.

large


Medium with large iframe


Medium


Large with medium iframe

Fwd: Royal festival hall

Original
Just a quickie. Just visited the chocstar van. Www.chocstar.co.uk and
now killing time before the Kodo drummers start this evening.

Update
This should have been posted at around 6:30pm today. However due to a wetware malfuntion (I put in the email address from memory and got it wrong) it went nowhere.

The trip was part of the birthday celebrations for my wife ( tiggyhedge.blogspot.com ).
The Kodo drummers were amazing. Their website is www.kodo.or.jp.

The chocstar van is definitely worth tracking down and visiting. When we first arrived at Southbank we knew that the van (aka Jimmy) would be at the slow food market and made a bee-line for it. Mrs_tiggy (aka bio-hazar) had the original (brownie, vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce) sundae and I had the challenger (blondie, chocolate ice cream and butterscotch) . If you want pictures then you will have to wait for my wife to update her blog, she is waiting for the pictures to upload first.

After wandering through the market, trying some samples, having a lamb burger (cooked in front of our eyes) for an evening meal and wandering along the riverbank we headed back via Chocstar again and Bio had a "Make it a Jamaican" to drink.

There are more details but that is enough for now. Check out my wife's blog or wait and see if I get around to adding further updates if you want to know more.