it's almost 2am.
this is friggin irritating.
so I decided to go ahead and change the template already, and will catch up with the retroactive labeling of my posts over the nest week or so.
but.
ONE: i have no idea why items in the sidebar are not lining up in a straight line! I first noticed it when the profile and archives didn't match up with the hacked labels boxes.... thought it was a function of "blogger" vs "hack" settings... then I looked at "misc stuff to sort" and omg I just about died! As far as I know there aren't any padding/margin/alignment functions associated with those individual items, and yet they are all over the place?! Can anyone shed some light on this?
TWO: i'd decided I wasn't going to clutter the sidebar with a whole list of blogs: I'd only keep the referrer.org list because it's really kewl and it would reward the most recent referrers, so i spent a lot of time clicking on each and every one of my blogroll links to check if they were still active, then adding them to my Google Reader, assuming I could share who/what I read, kinda like how I've seen bloglines work. Only like 2 minutes ago did I come to the realization (please tell me I'm wrong, someone!) that it doesn't quite work that way: the main "share" page is meant for individual posts/articles I deem worthy to highlight! Unless I want to provide 5 different links to my 5 different public folders, which I wouldn't want to anyway because the presentation/layout sux, it looks like I'm gonna have to establish my reads on bloglines.
THREE: After seeing how my whole bunch of text seems to be just sitting there on the screen, I realise that the default font(s) [and sizes thereof!] for this template are really unappealing to me. Looks like arial will be a safe choice although if i want something fancier, for the titles/headers, the choices get rather tough: I might go with Lucida Handwriting...
will decide later.
I really can't do much more screen time.
I feel my eyes sizzling as my brain melts...
230am as I post this.
argh!
will be back online on Sunday.
ciao!
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about two months later...
... hi again. This return to blogging is really not working out, is it? Actually, I am writing, three pages of mind vomit and affirmations ...
Hi!
ReplyDeleteWow, it was a nice surprise when i logged on to check for updates...
Keep up the tweaking and tuning and I'm sure you'll get the desired result.
Have fun!!
M.
Yep, blog make-over can take quite a lot of efforts ;-P. There's always something more to tweak... I'm starting mine soon to get the summer feeling into it.
ReplyDeleteHave fun with yours :-)
I'm too chicken to mess with my template. It took me weeks just to get the boring one I ended up with. But since I'm boring myself, that seems to work for me ;-)
ReplyDeleteYour new template looks great. I can understand your frustration as I have gone through it several times.
ReplyDeleteCongratulation on your new template. It looked great. As for your question, I'm sorry. I'm not as computer savvy as you like to think. I learned mine by trial and error mostly.
ReplyDeletethanx y'all! It's been a frustrating experience as I discover sloppy coding that really annoys me, but am not confident in revamping it all... so all I do is some quick-fix [although not so quick since I'm totally going by tiral& error!] and plan to revamp/clean up later. Still need to continue with my retro-labeling. Fun. Ciao!
ReplyDeleteBest of luck Lynne. It will be ok... dont give up....
ReplyDeleteHey Lynne. I'm LOVING this new look! It's very nice!!
ReplyDeleteI started up yet ANOTHER new blog with blogger lol, but this one is for my fitness and weight issues. The link to it is on my wordpress blog a couple of posts or so down.
I too, am FAR from PC savvy, so I can't answer your questions. However, with how it looks to me, you've done a fine job.