PS Above the correctly coded paragraph you've also pasted this:
<p style="clear:both;">
You need to delete that one.

(Just a note though: Right now, the image on the left is left-aligned, and the one on the right is right-aligned, thats how I got the way the home page looks)

However, is it possible to control the spacing between the images and the text that starts after it? After entering the above code, the text starts immediately after the image, what needs to be done if I want to control the spacing between the two?

If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.

• Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.
• Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.
• Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).

Every theme has a maximum displayed image width http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/maximum-image-width/ so it's important to keep that in mind when posting multiple images side-by-side. If you want two images to be side by side on the same line start by setting the alignment of both images to left. To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the HTML editor after each image/text pair:
<p style="clear:both;">TEXT HERE</p>

Another greater problem on my Home page is in the formatting that follows these images. The text invariably ends up between the images rather than going below them, irrespective of entering carriage return. At the back-end of this page, I have entered the carriage return atleast a 100 times to get the space that exists below the image on my Home page.

While the theme of my blog is Hatch, I've encountered this problem on various other themes too.

Any help/ guidance on this would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Bhaven

Gallery post format only affects how your post with an image gallery will appear on the front page/homepage of your site. It doesn't affect the gallery itself. You can read more on Post Formats here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-formats/

You don't mention which browser you are using. WordPress.com is best viewed using an up-to-date browser. I viewed your above post in both Chrome 23 and FF 17.0.1. If you need to update your browser, you can do so at http://browsehappy.com/

I am trying to create a post that has a gallery of images. I have gone to media menu and chosen the display in mosaicoption and have scaled all my images tofit within the dimensions (ie. the largest images are 1000 x 750). I have chosen gallery format. When I preview the post, half of the images are cut off on the right side. I have tried changing the format to standard, have scaled all the images etc yet it still does it. Within the gallery, I have tried choosing random order or not with no luck.

Help!

I'll give that a go
thanks very much
:)

To stop wrap around after a left aligned image, you need to add coding in the Text editor. For some text below an Image-Text pair, you'd write the following paragraph this way:
<p style="clear: both;">TEXT HERE</p>
Similarly, for an Image-Text pair below an Image-Text pair,
<p style="clear: both;">IMAGE CODE AND TEXT HERE</p>

1. Well actually I didn't intentionally put the images in either a column or side by side - it's just how they ended up after I inserted them. So actually I'd like to know how I specify that, AND how I stop text wrapping or cause the text to wrap if I want it to.

2. I mean generally. Say for example in a future post I want to post an image and I want a few lines of text next to it. Then I want either another image below that on a separate line OR a new paragraph of text.
so:
Image Text
Image Text

or Image Text
Text

Basically I just want to know how I control the formatting of images and text :)

thanks
Nancy :)

2. Depends. What text next to what image, followed by what?

http://nancypriston.com/2012/09/11/back-home-and-how-the-money-was-spent/

:)

I keep having problems with formatting of texts and images on my blog.

If I use the iphone app and insert images and then text the text sits below the images fine (e.g. http://nancypriston.com/2012/09/01/time-to-say-goodbye/)

However when I use the dashboard from my computer I always end up with the text wrapping. The weird thing is though, if I correct it in the visual editor and preview the post it looks fine. It's not until it's published that it comes up.
I'm sure there's a simple way to ensure the text starts on the next line (perhaps in html?) but I just couldn't seem to find it.

Ideally I'd like to know
1. how to make the text only appear above or below the images/group of images
and
2. If I DO want to position the text next to the image, how I do that?

Can anyone help me please?
thanks very much
Nancy :)

b) I didn't say pressing enter won't create a spacing, I said "pressing return repeatedly will never give you correct results, for various reasons" (hoping I could avoid elaborating on the reasons).
- The web standard is no multiple horizontal spaces or multiple blank lines, so normally they are stripped out upon save or if you switch between HTML and Visual editor.
- Pressing return, repeatedly or not, may survive and may work, depending on whether the section you're on is formatted as a paragraph or not, and depending on the image alignment.
- Pressing return, repeatedly or not, may give you the illusion it's working but may prove wrong as soon as you switch to a theme with a different column width.
- WP changes things all the time.

c) No, I didn't mean insert that code: that type of code is already there in your HTML editor. I meant you'd have to modify it as suggested.

With regards to re-sizing my photos as you instructed above, do you mean that I edit each of my blog posts and insert that HTML code in the HTML Editor for each and every image?

A friend just told me that it might be a browser issue but I have since emptied all the cookies etc and downloaded any any updates so I don't think it can be that. What do you think?

Thankyou!

The way the theme you're using is designed, to control the space above or below a captioned image you need to switch the editor to HTML and paste this:
<div style="height:8px;visibility:hidden;">-</div>
Change the number to adjust the space.

The theme you're using has another issue as well: notice how all your right-side borders are wrong? For captioned images that should cover the whole width of your posts, you need to go to Settings > Media, set the width for the Large option to 608 and the height to 0, and select the Large instead of the Full Size option when inserting the images. Then you need to switch the editor to HTML and change the first 608 in the code to 622.
Same thing for smaller captioned images: the first width number in the code must be increased by 14.

If you wish to correct your already published posts, you must change the code of all the full-size captioned so that it becomes like this:
[caption id="attachment_NUMBER HERE" align="aligncenter" width="622" caption="CAPTION HERE"]<img class="size-full wp-image-NUMBER HERE" title="TITLE HERE.jpg" src="IMAGE URL HERE?w=608" alt="" width="608" />[/caption]
(First width number 622, second and third width numbers 608, no height indications.)

But it would be better if you used an image editing application to scale down copies of your images to 608px wide, and upload and insert those copies. This way you can use the Full Size option and forget about the numbers (except the first one), you won't waste your storage space by unnecessarily uploading the large files you've been uploading, and your pages will load faster. Plus you'll get better quality, because images downsized by WP lose some color and sharpness; see here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/image-quality/

Thanks for your reply. The issue is that I cant seem to format my pictures to have a double space or single space in between each picture. The case is twofold: either i am able to insert a space but when I save changes and preview, that formatting disappears; or i simply cannot insert a space between the images no matter how many times I press "enter." I used to be able to do it on my past blog posts but all my blog posts published this month and those blog posts in unpublished draft stage are suffering from the same format issues. Here are the blog posts with spacing formatting issues that were published this month. Please let me know if this clarifies, apologies I am a relatively inexperienced blogger. Thankyou

http://momoandcoco.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/jamies-italian/

http://momoandcoco.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/chefs-gallery/

http://momoandcoco.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/jamies-italian/

But the best practice is to make copies of your images, downsize them in an image editing application to resolution 72 and the right width, and upload and insert those copies to your blog. This way you'll never have issues with any theme or any WP update or any browser (call that Explorer), your blog pages will load faster, plus you get better quality as well - see here:

http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/image-quality/

I checked my email, and I actually did get a resolution to this issue about an hour ago.

My blog URL: danielmontgomery.wordpress.com