Sep 28
Minor Cosmetic Changes
Minor. Nothing major.
I’ve made a couple of more adjustments to what began as Blogger’s “Harbour” template. While I like lighthouses, I wanted to make this blog look more TV-related since that’s what I do.
I’ve removed the subtle clouds from the top and the subtle rocky coastline from the bottom, making the entire background now a nice clean white. And I found the “blue fade” border on a free graphics site and have made it (and versions thereof) as the new official divider on the main column and sidebars.
I’m growing happier with the look now. I think I’ll stop fiddling with it now. (I’m hoping that if Blogger ever invites me to go “Beta,” I’ll be able to take this look with me one way or another.)
What do you think of the look?
September 28th, 2006 at 9:40 am
*looking around*
I like I like!
September 28th, 2006 at 9:59 am
I like it! It is nice and clean looking….
I have noticed that your page takes much longer to load recently, for some reason…. (and I’m not on dial-up, either)
Just wanted to let you know!
September 28th, 2006 at 10:02 am
I have noticed that your page takes much longer to load recently, for some reason…. (and I’m not on dial-up, either)
I’m on DSL and I have noticed that over the past few days, it is taking an extraordinary amount of time to publish a post.
The other day, Blogger had an outage, and I’m beginning to wonder whether there’s some hold up that they’re still working on.
I’ll look into it and see what I can find out.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
i like the look. it does suit you.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
This morning Blogger reported problems with spam blogs being created at a rapid rate that slowed things down and they were able to put a stop to it.
That was my main attraction to moving to beta. No more republishing and posts publish instantly, too.
I think I got to move over as fast as I did because I created a beta account and a new beta blog. The invite to merge accounts came before a week was over.
September 29th, 2006 at 12:13 am
I’m digging the look, Patrick - a new look for a new beginning!
September 29th, 2006 at 8:32 am
I think I got to move over as fast as I did because I created a beta account and a new beta blog. The invite to merge accounts came before a week was over.
Makes sense.
I created a beta version, just to see what was different, but there has still been no invite as yet. Maybe if I was actually posting regular content there, they’d move quicker for me.
Now that I have my template closer to the way I want it, my main reasons for wanting to go beta are the category tags that non-Beta can’t do without Technorati and easier template editing. I particularly like being able to edit one element of the sidebar without having to go into the full template every time.
September 29th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
The sidebar and footer elements are wonderful. You can add them to the header area too with a bit of html trickery. When you have a long sidebar as I do on some of my blogs, it makes editing so much easier. I just wish I could move Cyber Chocolate over to the new format, but I don’t know how to move all the custom css that was created for me.
October 1st, 2006 at 7:48 am
I like it…it’s you! De