20250202-0124. Welp, I’m up all night again! This time I had enough strength to re-create my front home landing page, which I modeled after the sign-in page of my favorite/other site for ranting: Twatter/Hex!
I did this from “memory” and thank goodness, I took ONE screenshot to help jog my memory. I was able to finish that in about an hour and about an hour ago. This was made possible after learning how to create and swap templates!
I started out tinkering with the Read Blog page and cloned/mirrored other pages called Blog, Recent Blogs, Post and Latest Posts! I re-used some empty/duplicate pages, which I could have easily deleted permanently.
So after practicing and refining the details for these five practice pages, I finally named that template as Dark Black, which is a black background and white fonts. I have learned to use the available Patterns, especially the ones under Blog Posts.
Before this Dark Black template project, I was already tinkering with the Patterns for the About page project and used a couple of Gallery patterns therein.
So after practicing with the About page project and then the five Query Loop pages project, I managed to finish my Front Page project! This is a static page with red three buttons on the right and an AI generated image to the left. I can’t seem to make the fat buttons thinner.
The bottom has more links and my credit and both are set to EXTRA-SMALL. From here, I learned how to double-check the Navigation blocks/widgets and discovered that I completely forget to copy the Description field into the Title Attributes field of my menu items!
Now I could hover my mouse over the links and read the text before clicking each menu item, which I set to “Open to new tab”!
This Advanced feature “Open to new tab” is VERY useful, especially while viewing my own weblog site from the Jetpack app for iPhone. I found out that I could close out the “new tab” and still see the main or original or previous “landing page”!
I have a habit of closing-out my web pages and by automatically selecting the “X” on the upper left hand corner of the Jetpack app for iPhone. Now I don’t have to be “inconvenienced” whenever I try to close the main links located on the front page. The rest, unfortunately, are set to NOT “Open to new tab” by default of the current theme.
I’m back after wiping up the spillage from my water distiller: It’s 0153 PST. So now back to my Front page project, which I saved as a Pattern in case I wanna revert to the original template.
This landing/static page is also Dark and Black! And I like it! So I guess I’ll keep it and the current Timestream theme, which has HUGE fonts by default.
The rest of the pages still needs reworking. While trying to fix my pages, I kept refreshing the Jetpack Boost > Image Size Analyzer (Beta)! And resizing and compressing the images kept me busy for too long!
I was under the impression that my original images designed on Canva dot com were the culprit. And I kept uploading Compressed and Transparent and 2KB sizes, which still were creating multiple triggers to fix it.
Then I used my big brain and queried LEO AI for answers and found out that all I had to do was open up my local Preview app and fix the images! I used 50 percent for the front page AI generated image and 30 percent for the Featured Images of my five practice pages.
The blurriness is NOT so obvious; and I didn’t care if the original wasn’t displayed. Now I have multiple dumps on my Media files and I still have more storage because of my Business upgrade plan.
So now I guess that’s it for now until next time. I’m getting sleepy. I like this theme because the text is huge while blogging from my desktop web browser. I’ve been listening to the audio bible and sometimes I got annoyed / irritated that even the ancient people had their dramas.
My eyelids are barely opened because of blurriness as I try to focus by squinting at all times. The three pairs of eyeglasses are NO good but I have no choice and stick to one good pair.
End of status report 0210 PST. Edited 0238 PST while snacking on leftover chicken and steamed white rice.
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