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March 15, 2008
New Look
As you can see, I’m trying out a new look here. I originally created the new style using Apple’s iWeb application, which makes it terribly easy to create a web page - provided you want to do something Apple has already decided you want to do. It’s easy and nifty, sure, but not exactly amenable to user choice, or control. Modifying the included templates is difficult at best; in some instances it’s impossible.
I thought I'd use iWeb because I'm tired of messing around with css and coding things myself. I tried to be sneaky and transfer the iWeb css into my MT stylesheet. Don't do that. I still don't understand what happened, but it created URLs and took over my main index page. The I had a pretty blog with no way to actually add content.
So here I am, doing exactly what I did not want to do. In my typical style, I didn't bother to get the page fixed first, and then go live with it; oh, no. It was going to be fast and easy, see. What I didn't realize is that I've apparently forgotten everything I ever knew about css.
I'll work it out ...
Posted by lynx at March 15, 2008 11:24 PM
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The main page look is good. The CSS on the entry/comment page seems a bit slow. The form takes a few seconds to come up.
Posted by: Mark L ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.caerdroia.org/116/nav-commenters.gif)
at March 16, 2008 8:22 AM
"I tried to be sneaky and transfer the iWeb css into my MT stylesheet."
This is why I use a "theme" and don't even look at the code. I have no idea what this means.
Posted by: Doc at March 16, 2008 10:51 AM
I *tried* to use a theme ... but then the program that created the theme would not exactly cooperate with my blog. I don't like any of the other themes my blog software uses (pout).
Thanks, Mark. I haven't gotten to any of that yet, so there is NO TELLING what the css looks like for the comments. Oh, look at the interesting block of peach color at the top of this page. Which is not supposed to be there. Blarg.
Posted by: Stephanie at March 16, 2008 1:55 PM
Looking at it again, it's the Typekey piece of the code. It doesn't matter if I'm logged in or not, though. Still, it may be related to their server if the code refers back to them.
Posted by: Mark L at March 16, 2008 6:10 PM
I like the new look. :) And being a hypocrite, I like that there are actually new posts up, too. ;)
Posted by: KathyJo at March 17, 2008 7:26 PM
yay! you are back.....I let the geeky husband deal with these sorts of things.....of course it means I can't change anything on a whim and it takes months for anything to happen....
Posted by: sozzled at March 18, 2008 7:46 AM
I like the new look...and I like the new posts as well!
Posted by: Anne/Navhelowife at March 20, 2008 6:52 AM