Oct 21 2006

R.I.P. Old Blogger

tombstones
I ignored my new blog template for the past couple of weeks, but then was forced to sit down and figure it out today after I received an email from a fellow Etsy seller who mentioned that the webring had been broken by me. I promised to fix it or revert back to my old template. I’m proud to say, that I have figured it out. Truth be told, I really like the new Beta Blogger!

Beta Blogger is really EASY to use. I like it a lot better than the old version, but it has taken me some time to figure out. It’s very intuitive to use and is much easier for novice HTML authors, like myself. I know just enough to make it work, but not enough to know why! After some tinkering this morning, I have been able to restore many of my old third party links and have decided to edit others.

In order to get a better grasp on HTML, I found and registered for a FREE online HTML 101 class at Web Tech University. It is a review for me in some respects, but now, I feel like I’m learning the hows and the whys! Next on my agenda is to get a better grip on Adobe Photoshop and my digital camera so that I can make the most out of my tools to support my art business.

These 3 tombstones were made courtesy of my daughter, husband and father-in-law. My FIL purchased a piece of plywood last week and used a jigsaw to cut out the tombstone shapes. The trio then spray painted the shapes gray and used a Sharpie to write their resprective inscriptions. Left to right, my daughter’s, husband’s and FIL’s. These are so much better than last years tombstones which were made out of cardboard and promptly wilted with the weather! If you would like a more titillating information and photographs of tombstones, check out Jafabrit’s Wed. Oct. 18th posting.

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Oct 11 2006

Changed over to Blogger Beta

You may notice that my template changed just a little…. I’ve been wrestling with the new version of Blogger ever since I changed over to the Beta version yesterday afternoon. Go figure, I was in the middle of cutting some fabric, when I glanced over and my computer beckoned me for some reason. I think I was looking for a link and somehow, I saw the beta teaser on blogger and switched over. It has some bugs and not all the features are available right now. I wasn’t even drinking and it still sounded like a good idea!

It’s actually quite fun to play with. The blogger templates are the same, except now you can tweak all the colors and fonts to your liking, so the possibilities are endless. There is also a way to have tabs on your blog much like a website, which I thought would be cool to include a gallery of images on a different page. I think you basically merge 2-3 blogs into one.

I’m not sure if I am going to stick with the current color scheme but am enjoying messing around. I would like to be able to stick my own banner on the header too. But, before I can add the tabs and all the other good stuff, (I lost all of my other links too like my flickr badge and webring code) I need to learn a bit more about html, css, xhtml etc. The html template is not like the older version. This one has widgits and whatzits that I’m not really sure how to work.

In the meantime, if you’re a pro at this or know of some good places to look for info, let me know!

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