Explanatory Note
I ran an upgrade to Wordpress 2.1.1 from 2.0 - a geeky announcement that shouldn’t mean anything to the average person - except that when I went to look at it, the page didn’t load properly in the browser. At least the site still worked! After abandoning the hacked theme that I was using, I tried one with a bare-bones nearly blank style sheet, and perversely considered using it, as was.
I was showing my daughter my style-less look when I went to demonstrate the old broken theme for her. And, naturally, it corrected itself. So now I am back to normal - if that’s what we’re calling it. If it looks broken, sorry. You might try clearing the cache if you can’t see through the brown murk. I hate it when things break and get better and I don’t know how or why. I’m glad that blog failure isn’t life threatening and I don’t have to figure it out now.
The prospect of finding a new blog skin got me curious. There are a lot of skins to look through.
Graham Wegner wrote,
As someone who has changed his blog theme four times, I think there is some truth in the observation I read somewhere on someone else’s blog that “as blog owner, you’ll get sick of your blog theme well before anyone visiting ever does.” I think your theme is pretty good as is and doesn’t look like a template just stuck in place. I like to try and customise my theme (a challenge when it is hosted by someone else) but it’s like decorating an office or den - you’ve got to feel comfortable. This blog has always been about content for me, not style, so only change it if YOU want because odds are your readers like it as it is.
Link | February 27th, 2007 at 3:22 am
Nancy McKeand wrote,
Or even more likely, they won’t even see it because they are reading it through an aggregator! They only see the site when they want to comment.
Link | February 27th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Brian Crosby wrote,
I wondered what was happening last night. I figured you were doing a makeover - making your blog more plain and simple … um … like um … mine. Well my blog has it’s first birthday next week I think - but I’m so busy right now I doubt I’ll make any changes yet. Maybe this summer I’ll have more time and be braver - although I do have spring break coming up in 2 weeks - we’ll see. Ah … The life of an elementary school classroom teacher.
Brian
Link | February 27th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Sarah Puglisi wrote,
You know I like Tie-dye, colors, cute symbols. Clouds…for about 2 days. The dots on my blog are just driving me away from circles completely as a form.
I saw an idea in an old, old book I have called 101 Things To Do With An Alligator. It was actually the Zen and Art of Motorcycle art projects book..anyway if you applied it to this issue of image…hum. The idea was talking about how much we engage with types(now fonts). That allowed me to think about a student two years ago that when he could present his work typed I held a completely different relationship to him. Sadly it was essential for us to go through too much before I realized this was my issue and I could resolve it. He just had a very severely small handwriting that I could not see or take in, it minimized his presence.
Then, too, the image reflects what you are doing. So I’m in a state of whatever because at the moment I’m locked into my template as I learn things. But I was thinking over the summer…if I could design a way to incorporate the feel of where I am right now. A way of changing …fitting form to function. Beach glass, right now I want it to look like beach glass…yesterday it was melon. This should scare you completely away from thoughts of change. But maybe not.
Link | February 27th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Doug wrote,
The blog uhPgrade is because of an error message that I got when I tried to post a comment on the last post. Thinking something was “broken” I decided to go in for full surgery. I hate doing this, since I have messed up many websites while trying to make them work better. (Cars, too)
I’m thinking, “non-attachment, non-attachment,” and then, OK just do it and if all is lost…oh well.
Then coming out the other side I have this sudden revulsion for this homemade look. Sarah, I hear you about the image thing. And now that I look at it, this color scheme is not too different from the plywood palace of a house that I built. We even have a hardwood floor that was milled from local birch and planed with a hand planer. Rustic…I think that’s the word. I’m going to play with it for a bit - realizing, as Graham and Nancy say, that it’s really about the content.
If it comes out bad, like a too-short haircut or how I feel like I look with a tie on, let me know. I’m not making any more announcements. It’ll just be me messing with it for a while I think.
Like I said, I’m glad it still runs.
Link | February 27th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Marco Polo wrote,
Woah! Borderland Safe Mode! Still, it’s your blog, and you’re in good company.
Link | February 28th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Marco Polo wrote,
Seems the new template won’t allow HTML tags in the comments. My previous comment should have linked to http://e-poche.net/
Link | February 28th, 2007 at 2:28 am
Marco Polo wrote,
Woah! Don’t even need tags!!
I’m using Firefox (2.0.02) with Windows XP, and the RH sidebar isn’t visible to the right of the main entry column; it’s pushed right down below the central column’s text. That happened to me in Blogger when I had a line of text (usually a link) in the main column; the sidebar moved below the main column because of the extra-long line. Maybe if you try shortening your blog’s subtitle, or put it on two lines?
Link | February 28th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Graham Wegner wrote,
The sidebar trick usually happens to my blog in Internet Explorer but usually displays perfectly in Firefox - but it’s not the browser this time. Doug, I’m not one to tell you what to do but I’m missing your traditional blog theme already.
Link | February 28th, 2007 at 3:18 am
Doug Noon wrote,
Readers ARE the ones to tell me. Thanks for the feedback. Let me know if there’s any display or comments problems. Please.
Link | February 28th, 2007 at 6:21 am
susan funk wrote,
Looks great from here.
Link | February 28th, 2007 at 11:00 am