Blog Experience

Whew! I just spent way too much time monkeying with this blog tonight. For starters. I was sick of the dang thing being default formatted for 15" screens. Blah! Who uses those tiny things anymore anyways? Sorry if that's you, but you need an upgrade. Seriously, big LCD monitors are cheap and they'll make your life so much better, and all your dreams will come true.... (Okay, so if you're on a laptop then you've got an excuse.) I went from a 19" LCD to a 22" high-gloss widescreen LCD on my desktop and HOLY COW! It's friggin' AWESOME. Only about $170 at tigerdirect.com - watch for deals!

(Steps off soap box.) So, as I was saying...I got into the blog template HTML and went for broke. I had to stretch the background to 1024 pixels wide, then tune the side bar and the posts to fit a little better. That's right, that skinny-ass sidebar was just stupid-useless. It was soooooo cool the way it just used to cut off all the gadgets. I know there's gotta be smarter coders out there.

After those tweaks I noticed the parchment texture didn't fit anymore. Okay, lets see if Blogger.com has the correct size....of course not. I made my own, then had to open an account at Photobucket so I'd have a reliable place to load them from. Got that working then the world was all shiny again.

Oooh! Another dull spot - no tunes! I went to playlist.com and banged together a quick playlist so folks could enjoy listenting to the junk I like listening to. (Admit it, you like it and you know it!) Well, do ya suppose maybe the stinking flashplayer could be easily sized to fit the blog sidebar...uh....NO! CRIMINY! I cracked open the embedded HTML for that and fixed 'er up real good. Now it fits without scrollers, plays the songs all the way through and shows 14 songs at a time instead of just 3 or 4.

Hmmm...missed it by that much: Those greedy "buy this cell phone" and "go to this trendy website where we'll try to get your money" ads just had to go. I got back in there and hacked those off too.

Yup. Shiny once again!