Posting fixed column articles from the St. Petersurg Times in blogger

The St. Petersburg Times has some 'fair use " options for its articles. You  can use a St. Peterbrg times script to embed the articles without changes which includes St. Petersburg Times ad.

Unfortunately the default method provides a every small column length window in blogger. All a reader would initially sees is the St. Petersburg times (SPT) ad and has to do a lot of scrolling to see the article.

 

When we tried the non-default "fixed positioning" option, it collided with the blogger template and the Rightardia footer. It made a real mess. After several attempts we decide to give up on a fixed column length script.

When there is a will, there is a way.  We found we can embed the SPT script by using Scribefire, the blog editor, to create the post. After we embed the script, we put in 20 or more carriage returns to make room for the blogger template inserts and the Rightardia footer. 

We then upload the post to blogger via FTP. 

You will have to experiment with the width. We don't use a border  and change the margin width and margin height to 2px.

Our SPT posts are now a lot more readable. See the editorial below on high speed rail as an example.


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