Giddyorangefizzrings

A long time since I have dropped into my giddyorangefizzrings. Some wonderful soul at wordpress help finally responded to my second plea so long ago now, and fixed my problem and this blog resurfaced with the Cutline theme.

When I had time to play again, I carefully “added on” to the css and saved, no cutting and pasting this time! Still no real instructions on how all this works so can only hope for the best. I figured my changes through trial and error off line. I found the organization of this cutline css pretty hard to understand, not straightforward as I’ve seen other css I’ve played with over the past year or so. Anyway, was very happy to see that the changes worked. Those were for the font, hated the Tempus Sans ITC and George so changed to Verdana, Arial. Other changes were just font colours.

Not so keen on this header, as had to widen and narrow a version to fit the cutline so looks different from what I had originally made. Oh well, small things.

Before I forget, I am wondering why my sub-category “Some things I learned in February” does show as a sub-category, and indented, on the Category list to the right of of the “Write Post” pages, but not on the actual blog. It shows there as just another Category. I’ve looked at a few other blogs and their sub-categories do indeed show as such on their blogs. Perhaps because of the problems with my template? Or perhaps just another blip with the Sapphire template itself? This was formatted with blockquote, which for reasons I also do not understand, always formats the text in italics!

Two things have come back to me about about why I was interested in having a blog.

1. Wade.
   1. educational material for new collectors
   2. rants
   3. references
   4. my collections
2. Nifty computer programs and Mozilla add-on’s.
   1. the nifties like ShirusPad
   2. my bests of Thunderbird and Mozilla add-on’s
   3. what’s missing in add-on’s

Well, not so exciting but I have never thought of this as one of those daily post kind of things, more a place to put stuff that some people might be interested in - partly to save me repeating things in emails.

Like the snow, still have some way to go before getting to the point where something will actually happen. We are still 13 inches short of the all time record for snow of 174.8 inches.

The weekend dump is said to be 56 cm or 22 inches so that helped, and last Wednesday was 30 cm or 11.8 inches. We might make it though, considering it is just March 11 and planting weekend isn’t until May 24.

Soon time to consider what I would like to do with my blog, along with exploring some of the advanced features. Like “what is a blogroll?”.

I began giddyorangefizzrings on February 6 and now feeling tentatively comfortable about basic features. I have learned how to,

• post
• find my posts and edit them
• make categories and tags
• change category or tag names and add or delete them
• add and delete posts and pages
• add pictures to posts as full page, thumnail or links
• manage uploads by deleting unnecessary pictures that got in there
• change templates
• make headers to fit size for different templates
• add, change order and remove widgets
• change blog settings and options
• send and approve a comment to myself
• bought the custom css and had that giddy experience: ongoing
• set up a Flickr account and learn basics there, tho nothing on
  it yet worth putting up the widget here
• use the “code” section in the post editing to use and edit the basic html there
• do quite a bit of explorating around the documentation and forums.

I would be much further if not for the endless empty time spent trying to fix the template problem and fruitlessly trying other templates that didn’t work, apparently because this one has a problem.

I had quite a few ideas in mind for this blog before I started. Now they seem to have all washed away in the frustration of just trying to solve the template problem.

Another ah ha

The bullets would not show up in the above unordered list. Hmmm. I put in <ul type=”circle”> in the code to see if that helped, no joy, would not even save the code. I figured something plain like that should work, though perhaps s.t. in css needed changing too. Almost first hit after search in forums found thread where I learned that well known problems with Sapphire (wordpress doesn’t concern, they just picked some templates, it is the authors of course who are responsible for any changes.) Seems getting bullets to appear anywhere is a common problem whether you edit the css or not. Some other people had problems with some other themes also. Too bad.