Sorry for the delay, there have been technical issues regarding Video beta. Namely, it video would not upload via tablet, probably because of the size. It stopped midway and frustratingly froze.
[02:50] - Welcome to Kathleen
[08:05] - Avivah’s technical question (still open for answers!)
[21:10] - Jack’s white space trick
[26:00] - First Impression: The Hyphen
[31:50] - First Impression: The Microdose
[44:15] - First Impression: Above the Fold
[49:35] - Wrapping up and Kathleen’s Instagram visuals question
Hello fellow Substackers,
On Wednesday we met and had a lovely chat (I thought) giving honest feedback on Substack publications first impressions. Teeth where pearly white!
What is My Visual Substack
By Substackers, for Substackers.
This is for all substack writers to meet, chat about the looks of their publication, have fun and grow together! Giving and receiving honest feedback from peers, thinking of your publication in new ways, making connections... Every two weeks on a Wednesday.
Yes, we do breakout rooms:)
Check out the next meeting date:
02:50 - Welcome to Kathleen
A newcomer to My Visual and to Substack in general: Let’s welcome Kathleen, who writes Oh My Heart. Kathleen migrated her list onto Substack a couple fo months ago and she told us a bit about her experience with Instagram and being hew to Substack.
We discussed questions that some of you had about the way your posts look as they leave their Substack homes and end up in the real world of people’s inboxes. Gmail, Proton, Apple, email clients are all of different flavors, and not all of them speak the same language as us or as our posts.
08:05 - Avivah’s technical question (still open for answers!)
Avivah - who writes Elderberries - had an issue with the way images are being scaled down (or not) in email format. The problem is ongoing, so if anyone of you know how to help her, jump in. Namely, do you know why her images uploaded via the “Search for an image” feature in Substack editor, are not being rendered in emails at the size she set up for them? (She is scaling them down a lot, but they end up full width…)
21:10 - Jack’s Old School white space trick
Jack from Vegan Weekly showed us how he works with white space in his posts and told us a trick he uses to bypass the fact that emails eat up your white spaces and separation lines sometimes.
26:00 - First Impression Exercise
You have to see it to believe it:)
Extra: Congrats to Kiki for hitting Publish! Kiki is writing You’re beautiful here on Substack and she started out her first post the other week, with an audio option!
Save the Date
Next My Visual workshop will happen to happen at the same time as Writer’s Meetup, most of which are live events, two of which are virtual (guess which one we are:)…)
So save the date for the 14th of September at 1PM EDT. Check up the event for your local hour and to register get the reminder:
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