Today, I’ve done nothing but modify my weblog. It’s all I could do while waiting for nothing as the days pass by like the clouds that didn’t appear for today’s mostly clear blue skies. I attended morning mass, had breakfast at McDonald’s restaurant, shopped for grocery at the DeCA in Moffett Field, CA and ate only a banana for lunch.
I ran upstairs and tried adding a ‘background-image’ of an old clip-art from Microsoft of a scrollwork, which was originally blue in color but was changed to purple by me. That didn’t work and I was not satisfied as usual. And after exercising to the dance tunes from an old cassette tape with my parental units in the late afternoon, I ran upstairs again.
This time I proceeded to redo the background color of the ‘body’ from ‘Dark Weak Blue’ (#333366) to ‘Pale Weak Blue’ (#CCCCFF). This meant the font color for the body, blockquote and menu had to be darker — the color black (#000000). The font color for the text decoration is ‘Light Hard Violet’ (#9933FF) to make the various links to the widgets located below this ‘Chaos Theory’ theme stand out more; since the text size is very small.
Then I had to increase both the font size to 60px and margin to 30px (of the ‘#header h1’) because I wanted the title to my weblog to stand out. This sort of looked right but the ‘blue rose’ image I tried out from yesterday didn’t seem right and appeared quite pixilated. I wanted a clearer ‘background-image’ to upload (of the #header).
So I went to the Microsoft website and downloaded a copy of a clipart showing a pink heart, which I also changed to a more bluish tone instead. And then I uploaded that one as my new image header. This was prettier, too and best ‘centered’ for an even effect throughout the top. I changed the color of both the ‘#blog-description’ and ‘#header’ to ‘Dark Weak Blue’ (#333366).
Happily, the text header was more readable against the whiter background of the purplish, blue hearts but barely the blog description below. The increase in the margins (first) made the increase of the ‘font-size’ possible, not the other way around as I have discovered on my own as part of my ongoing cross-training of CSS html programming by myself.
Later on this evening and after dinner of lima beans and very salty canton noodles made by ‘Maw’, I resumed my weblog project. I had saved my newest page: ‘Home’. But I didn’t know how I wanted this to look. The online samples I found during my general searches online gave me very little ideas. This time I had to really use my big brain and come up with something creative.
So I opted to creating this ‘Home’ page with a few words of greeting and a thumbnail photo to one of my old photos in black and white. This photo makes me look like an agent with those dark sunglasses on. I liked the ‘halo’ effect around my head, which was really the light from the tall halogen lamp located behind me at the time I took this ‘self-portrait’ with my digital camera.
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