Format Changes
Taking a cue from Tim Tjarks, who had taken a similar step a while back, I've finally made a few format changes on the site this morning.
Some early attempts to tinker with the site ran me into sudden formatting disasters, so I was a little gun-shy. These seem to have worked out well enough, though I doubtless have some tinkering to do. The bulk of the posts will look silly for the moment, but I'm not going to go back and reformat all those.
Yes, I know some of the color choices (or lack thereof) aren't attractive. I'm still getting the hang of this. In time, in time...
For now:
First, the longer posts were scrolling the screen, so I wanted to be able to keep the bulk of a piece on its own page.
Second, it bothered me that the Haloscan system I was using wouldn't notify me that a comment had been made unless I made a cash contribution. Oh, I understand their need, but I thought it was time to give the comments sections Blogger/Blogspot offers another chance. We'll see how it works out. Accordingly, I've switched off the Haloscan comments for now. I experimentally copied and pasted the two most recent comments into the new format (one of which I accidentally put in twice, hence the note of deletion in one of them), but didn't reach back farther than that, so I'll give a brief apology to those other posters. For what it's worth, the way Haloscan was working it appeared that comments more than a few months old were disappearing anyway, despite the template staying in place. I believe the new comments format will allow the comments to stay for as long as the blog itself is up.
Comments
I posted a comment and it disappeared!!
Don't you love me no more?
:-(
Tammy: I had a gold shirt like that, too. I forget which cousin I got them from, but they had at least four buttons on each cuff. That picture was, as best I can recall, of a quickly pulled-together birthday party for me... I believe it was my 11th.
What's that suspicious bottle behind your right shoulder?
If you're going to keep the shirt, you may want to re-christen the blog something like "My Hideous Purple Disco Shirt" or "That 70s Shirt"... it's not that I don't like the shirt, as I believe I once had one that was rather similar, it's just the immediate head rush looking at it brings on to those of our era. For all the nostalgia we've seen for that time period recently, nobody seems to want to bring back THAT particular fashion...
That picture is just too adorable.
It had to be all downhill from that point. C'mon let's see the sad shell of your former self that you have become.
Mark G.
I have some work to do on my template, though, as I want to try to get rid of the "Read More" link on the short posts, especially if there are no comments (and thus, no "More" to "Read). As far as I can tell, though, that'll require me to embed a URL in the message rather than have it generated automatically.
Kalen and Kathy gloat because Livejournal does this for them automatically.
I put the split format into my basic style sheet so it's there for all my new posts and haven't bothered trying to fix the older ones. That way, if I ever do make a one or two-line post, I can just cut it out up-front and that post will appear as they used to.
And I'm still not sure that my own website couldn't do without a whole lot of reworking myself.
Yours,
Dwight in Ottawa