Friday, May 30, 2025

In the interest of science

Mormon Row at Sundown.

I’ve been experimenting with the format of the email that announces my weekly blog post. For 1,000 posts over 19 years you have received the entire blog in your Monday email. And for those 1,000 posts you’ve been spared the need to click on the post title to reach the actual website where you can Subscribe or Comment. In the interest of transparency, both of those functions serve my interests. I want more readers (Subscribers) and I crave feedback.

In this test post I have chosen Short (an excerpt from the post) not the Full post you’ve received all these years. Let's see what happens.

The image at the top of the post has nothing to do with this message. I simply want to see if the image and representative text appears in tomorrow’s experiment. My digits are crossed.

Good Luck to us all.

Please use the handy blue Post a Comment link at the bottom of the post to tell me how this process works for you. I appreciate it.



7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Easy to use but no image. Is that a deal breaker?

Anonymous said...

It prints the title of the top image but not the image itself.

Blacks Crossing said...

Your crossed digits must have done the trick. Both text and image came through beautifully. Mormon Row at Sunset's toning is luscious and perfect. Hope you experiment now works as planned.

Anonymous said...

But there was no image in the email. And that is not doable. Do I settle for text only? Is text enough to get people to click through to the website?

Terry T said...

Looks fine to me Steve. Couple of picky comments: I think you could make the image a tad bigger so it matches the margins of the text. Also, the image at the bottom of you is squashed, I think that is a shot I took back in 2016 in front of the Wilder gallery...

Anonymous said...

Made me look! No image on email on both iphone & pc computer, only text. But click to full post on your website worked well! Easy peasy!

Anonymous said...

Which anonymous are you? As long as folks will read more by going to the blog this may be the way to go. Thanks.