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Thanks, it’s close but not exactly what I’m looking for. The text is still completely separate.

The right way is to not approach web design with print design. We should rather understand the nature of web design and embrace it.

I understand, although it seemed to me that some magazine apps for tablet were precisely bridging that gap.

My content is 80% visual, but it’s not photoblogging either, so I’m in a grey area. It feels like blogging format hasn’t changed since 2000. It’s depressing.

I’m going to try and see if a plugin like the Intense overlay shortcodes could be useful.

Thanks for your help

Thing to consider is the responsive design aspect

Yes it’s a nightmare.

I was thinking of making a mobile version of the site, rather than a responsive design, because I really don’t see how you can have something that works for both.

If you take the basic blog post like this one,

I am trying to see if it is possible to get instead something like this,

or that if vertical

or like this if horizontal.

A blog post would be a collection of photo backgrounds (or even a white image BG if I want no photo) that tile up from left to right, and each photo can have it’s own overlay of text with options (placement top left-right etc / width of paragraph / font / size / color / transparency).

That way each post can be designed to look differently.

Can CSS do that?

Yes but could I decide the placement of the text, it’s color, and the width of the paragraph?

Also, do you do template design?

Thanks for your reply paulwpxp
It would be for repeated use.
The problem with captions is that the text is usually always displayed the same way, a dark overlaid frame like on this photographer’s blog for example, but the text is still constrained in the same space for every photo.
I am thinking about horizontal scrolling though, it seems to make more sense for photo-intensive blogging.
All I want is to have a more magazine-like look and still have my content be indexed by Google.
Maybe I can embed the text on the images, and have the same text hidden so it can be indexed, I don’t know.

What do you think?