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January 7, 2007

Actually,

This entire month will be ugly blog month.

That random "d" that sits above what will be the banner really has to go. Hunting it down is one of my many new years' resolutions.

This looks like some old lady's knitting blog, but it has all the correct elements in all the right places for what I finally wanna do, so I'll keep it for now until I can grab a camera (or borrow Rachel's) and put the colours/images I really want down here. For that reason, if the page doesn't load properly, drop me a line and let me know. Ta.

Posted by daruma at January 7, 2007 8:26 PM | (102 Words)

Comments

I found your random 'd'.

You had a line in your template that contained this code:

& # 1 0 0 ;

That gets rendered as a 'd' (if you take all the spaces out of it)). I dunno where it came from. It was in a div block that had nothing else in it

It was just below the tag.

So that's one thing solved. B^)

Posted by: Elvis at January 8, 2007 12:16 AM

Wow. Thank you. You rock out.

Posted by: Buck at January 8, 2007 7:55 AM

It's easy when you've stared at as many MT templates as I have!

Hey, while your background looks cool, it's REALLY hard to read your blog 'cause the center column is translucent. It makes my eyes hurt.

Looks damned pretty though.

Posted by: Elvis at January 8, 2007 8:44 AM

Yeah. I've taken the background image out for now because it really is distracting; too busy. All I wanted to establish was that it works. That translucent column has a role to play, and the background will go back up for a night or two when I tweak again in a couple days (eventually there will be margins again and the text will be in the translucent column. I think it needs to be bigger, and I think it needs to be more opaque, and Ithink the photo behind it needs to not be fucking flowers, but that's down the road. This is practice).

Posted by: Buck at January 8, 2007 8:52 AM

Practice is good.

Posted by: Elvis at January 8, 2007 11:13 AM

Not sure about old Lady or hard to read. It's just black and white. Came here and thought you were on a kick like intransience. By the way- I'm not found of that. I want to keep track of you, and I can't always get here daily. Hate to think I might miss your writing. More intelligent than so much stuff that is out there.

Not sure what pictures you are looking for- but Renderosity.com is a huge site, and has a great search engine. I'll help if you give me an idea.

Posted by: DevilBlueDress at January 8, 2007 2:34 PM

The reason you can't see anything other than black and white is 'cause you already missed it. I was having the same problems Karl was with the pic, and the minute he agreed with me I took the thing down. You'll get another chance to see it soon enough; I'm not done tinkering, not by a long way.

Posted by: Buck at January 9, 2007 10:16 AM