making images uniform and putting them where I want them

How can I get them all to be the same width???

Make sure that the uploaded files are all the same width.

Also, how can I place them exactly where I want them?

In which web browser? There’s no such thing as a pixel-perfect cross-browser display.

There must be a better way than making sure all the original files are the same width and as for the browser I think if you just take a look at some professional websites (this forum, for instance) you’ll agree that a certain level of uniformity is certainly possible.

Go to Settings > Media and set the size settings. When you upload a image make sure it is larger then the Large size. Now when you have to insert an image you have multiple sizes to choose from.

There must be a better way than making sure all the original files are the same width

The best method is to start with images that are roughly the same size.

a certain level of uniformity is certainly possible

Agreed but that’s not the same as placing elements exactly where you want them. Web browsers simply do not work that way. Web != print. A good cross-browser display depends upon a number of factors including reasonably valid page markup and CSS, uniform source images and some knowledge of HTML and CSS if you want to carry out any fine tuning/positioning.

I know for instance, I can specify the width and height of images but what I want to do is have the width static and let the height vary depending on the original size of the image. There must be a way to code this and place it in the formatting.php

Keesiemeijer – you are wonderful!! That’s exactly what I was looking for and it did the trick. thank you.

Well, I guess I spoke too fast. Your tips did work but only for the top half of the page. For some reason the formatting isn’t working on the lower half – can you think of why not?

Maybe you have to re-upload the images of the lower half of the page for the new image sizes to adhere to the new settings