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Copyright: Do not steal

It's super easy to steal work that does not belong to you. I think you know that you should not do that.

A statue in black granite of two tablets bearing the Biblical Ten Commandments in white letters.
Photo: See number eight. ¶ 

Ask the owner for permission. If you do not know who the owner is, and there's no public license, don't use it.

Pasting into Blogger

It sounds like a cool hack: draft your post in your favorite app, photos and all, then paste that into the Blogger editor. ¶ 

A man is pasting a poster onto a wall using a long squeegee-style brush.

Grab that thing you're quoting from the web and paste into the post. ¶ 

The good news is that this will usually work (with some quirks), but you need to take extra steps to protect your blog from junk code.

When a blogging account is deleted

Have you seen this blog? ¶ 

Deleting an account might delete the blog or blogs it owns—but it might not. ¶ 

And deleting the account might have other effects on a blog, too.

What's wrong with Blogger's responsive themes?

A CATALOG OF DISCONTENTS ¶ 

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So why do the Responsive blog themes, introduce by Google in 2017, continue to give me pause nine years later? ¶ 

Don't get me wrong: the fact that these are responsive means they provide a superior user experience on mobile. That is huge. ¶ 

Most web traffic today comes from phones, and a responsive theme makes your work easier to read, find, and navigate from there. ¶ 

Nonetheless, there are tradeoffs.