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This is a simple test to see if the server is being slow. I haven’t noticed any problems, but Kate seems to be having issues.

This is a level 1 header.

This is a level 2 header.

This is a level 3 header.

This is a level 4 header.

This is a level 5 header.

This is a level 6 header.

You’ll notice they’re all bold, as is normal for headlines.

What about using style?

I know not his name. Far in the past, far beyond thought, so the legend runs, a race of just people lived in a land east of the Maurenron Mountains, past the Land of the Falling Wall, by the shores of a great sea. They built a city of spires and low glass domes, and dwelt in great content. These people had no god, and presently they felt the need of one whom they might worship. So they built a lustrous temple of gold, glass and granite, wide as the Scaum River where it flows through the Valley of Graven Tombs, as long again, and higher than the trees of the north. And this race of honest men assembled in the temple, and all flung a mighty prayer, a worshipful invocation, and, so legend has it, a god molded by the will of this people was brought into being, and he was of their attributes, a divinity of utter justice.

This post will show you how to place images to better effect than simply stuffing them in alongside your text.

This text should appear to the left of my Cognitive Hazard icon. But since I can’t think of anything to write here, I’m going to quote something instead.

“Shimrod gave his head a smiling shake. ‘We use different magics. When first I wandered the world, such creatures were new to me. I enjoyed their frolics and pretty fancies. Now I am more settled, and I no longer try to fathom fairy logic. Someday, if you like, I will explain the difference between fairy magic and sandestin magic, which is used by most magicians.’”

The orange-haired boy-man spoke with vivacity: “It is all very well to ordain tasks by magic, but some intelligent or skillful agency must ultimately do the specified work. In such remedial work as this no entity, be it man, sandestin, halfling, demon, or other creature of controllable power, understands all the intricacies. Therefore, it cannot be done on the instant.”

This placement of the image is accomplished by adding the following tidbit of HTML to the interior of the <img> tag: align="right".

When I told WordPress to insert the image, it came up with this:
<img src='http://discoverymap.com/wordpress/files/2007/07/cognitive.jpg' alt='Cognitive Hazard' />
But if you add the code discussed above, it will look like this:
<img src='http://discoverymap.com/wordpress/files/2007/07/cognitive.jpg' alt='Cognitive Hazard' align='right' />

Other values for the align property are: “left”, “top”, “bottom”, and “middle”. Just remember: it’s the image you’re aligning, not the text around it. However, you’re aligning it relative to the text!

• An image aligned for “top” will start the text at the top of the image, then continue it after the image.
• An image aligned for “bottom” will start the text at the bottom of the image.
• An image aligned for “middle” will start the text at the midpoint of the image, then continue it after the image.

Experiment with this and see what you like, but in general I think you’ll find that “left” and “right” work best.

If you align your image to the left, you may find that your text butts right up against the image. While it may still be legible, this isn’t an ideal circumstance. To combat this bothersome habit of Web browsers, add this bit of code: hspace='5'.

This will cause the browser to give the image five pixels of horizontal space on both sides of the image. Aligning images to the right doesn’t usually cause this issue, as English is a left-to-right language, so all your text that meets an image on the right is going to look “ragged” (because the lines wrap) and probably won’t touch the image. The image to the left of this text uses the following code:
<img src='http://discoverymap.com/wordpress/files/2007/07/cognitive.jpg' alt='Cognitive Hazard' align='left' hspace='5' />

Hello, everyone. This is going to be a short post to display some of the capabilities of the blog.
Text can be bold.
Text can be italic.
You can make links to other Web pages.
You can quote (in)famous people:

‘Humanity is old, civilization is new: the mesh of cogs is by no means smooth and this is as it should be. Never should a man enter a building of glass or metal, or a spaceship, or a submarine, without a small shock of astonishment; never should he avoid an act of passion without a small sense of effort. We of the Institute receive an intensive historical inculcation; we know the men of the past, and we have projected dozens of possible future variations, which, without exception, are repulsive. Man, as he exists now, with all his faults and vices, a thousand gloriously irrational compromises between two thousand sterile absolutes is optimal. Or so it seems to us who are men.’

If you add some text about a current event, but later need to delete it, you can note the changes.
You can form an unordered list:

• First Item
• Second Item
• Third Item

…or an ordered list:

1. Item
2. Item
3. Item

Or, say you have a bit of text you want to call out from the regular flow, but you don’t want it to be bold, italic, or some other by some other artifice appear. You can make text appear in a fixed-width font!

if (x == 23) {
print "Hello, world!";
} else {
print "Good-bye, world!";
}

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Welcome to the blog of Discovery Map International. There isn’t much to see here right now, but in the future this space might be useful. We could use it to…

• post information about upcoming markets.
• discuss the merits of having a bunch of small ads versus having larger (but fewer) premium ads.
• inform clients about situations in the office.
• describe the assorted love affairs among our staff.

Well… probably not that last one, but you get the idea. We can use this space for anything. Even hosting pictures of giant space hamsters in their traditional tinfoil hats. The possibilities are endless!