Misadventures in HTML - or, Technology as Tar Pit

Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.

I messed up my blog yesterday. I wanted to be able to show the first few lines of all my posts, to entice readers (maybe that should be "reader" singular!) to read them. I found directions for how to do this. It involved entering in some hypertext. The directions said to enter in the code at a certain point in the Html. It should have been a sign to me of things to come that I could not find a location that matched what was shown in the directions.

Never fazed, I proceeded. Are you, gentle reader, familiar with the line, "often in error, never in doubt"?

After entering in to the Html, there were instructions of altering the Post Template, which I found and entered in: "Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it." As you can see above, that part works.

However, the Html in the Style Sheet did not. I had wisely saved the initial template to my hard drive, and uploaded this and tried to retrace my steps. However, the new template had undergone a sea change into something very slightly strange and wonderful -- the last 10% of pictures was lopped off.

Don't send me any more directions -- I am taking the Html Anonymous Pledge - having grasped the first of the 12 steps -- recognizing that I have no power over Html.

So, here is the beginning of my post. And here is the end of it.