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Okay: I’ve been switching WordPress.com themes again last night. I also changed my “Site Name” and “Tagline” to read as “Blogger’s Path” and “Posts by Flynn”. I neither liked an “absolute” path for blogging nor too many words to explain what this site is about. I had to sample some “Freshly Press” themes to come up with something descriptive for my weblog — “short and sweet”.

As you will have noticed, I switched WordPress.com themes again! Don’t ask me why: I’m just not “feeling” a personalized one yet! Not only did I pay for two upgrades — Typekit fonts and a WordPress.com CSS, but I also removed lots of “tags” and “categories” — both of which I’m building up again for this year 2011. Then later on this year I will remove those since no one really searches for those feature: I know because I keep checking my “blog stats” daily, which is nominal but only a few dozen views or so daily.

A few days ago I got bored and noticed that the Firefox browser didn’t process my Typekit fonts properly. My weblog looked fine via the IE. So to make my weblog load faster, I had to remove my Typekit fonts and edit my paid CSS upgrade by using “websafe” fonts. I used the “Georgia” font for headers; “Arial” font for reading and “Palatino Linotype” for image captions, blockquotes and meta data elements.

So far I’ve not switched WordPress.com themes lately. It must mean I’m satisfied with my weblog for now. But I’m tempted to switch again because there’s nothing to blog about. I’m ready to stop blogging, an online addiction that doesn’t do anything but serve my ego and confuse my readers, who are not supposed to get all worked up about nothing to the point of fanaticism and such. Get a life, people! And get off the computers, now!

See? Look what you’ve done! I made my weblog look like eye candy:

• Yellow for the “container” and “header”.
• Pink for the “sidebar”.
• Purple for the “blog header title”.
• Lavender for the “header”.
• Pink for the “body”.

The default colors are orange for the “search bar” and lime-green for the “sidebar header”.

I’ve finished tweaking my paid CSS upgrade to the ChaosTheory theme here at WordPress.com:

• Purple colors!
• Auto widths!
• Column monster with two bottom/sidebars and widgets!
• Custom menus, just the way I like it!
• Blog/site title and its tagline/description inside header!
• Meta data with TIME/date stamp underneath Blog/post title (sans author information)!

That’s all. I should go to sleep now because tomorrow is going to be lots of Q4 allocation, as if I care – NOT!

It’s sheer madness to be an addicted weblogger and an amateur CSS editor to my paid upgrade! Again, I’ve been switching themes and editing my custom CSS stylesheet. So right now, I’m back to using the The Journalist v1.9 by Lucian E. Marin because of the unique `archive template` featuring archives, categories AND tags! With this theme, I get my preferred TIME stamp as well as the `links template`.

Based on the Twenty Theme theme stylesheet, I’ve increased the `font size` to 16 pixels and used a simple `font family` of `Georgia` and `Serif`. With the blue-colored background of crispy, clear blue skies above and the white-washed, foam of sea water below, reading will be much brighter and easier, too!

Besides going nuts over the `best` WordPress.com theme and despite wanting TIME stamps directly underneath the blog titles, I’ve decided to quit – not blogging, but changing themes and keeping `Twenty Ten by the WordPress team`. Why?

I’ve discovered the customization of the `Menus` and added four more of my sites as part of the `Primary Navigation`. Plus I could ALWAYS changed the URL, Navigation Label and Title Attributes for each `Custom Links`!

As a result, I’ve edited ALL my pages to be set as its own `Parent (or main) page`. This means the link for each page will be cleaner and immediately follow after the domain name proper.

I’ve also tweaked my `Living with Orgone` site to have four widgets at the bottom and four sites of the `Primary Navigation` located on top.

Alright! I’m really using my mind this time! After switching several WordPress.com themes and after viewing and saving the original stylesheet of each theme, I reviewed the Twenty Ten theme by the WordPress team and found my answer at last!

I was able to increase the `line height` to the `tag cloud` widget! Now I could add as many `tags` to my posts without seeing how the tags are crammed so close together!

Also, I increased and decreased the widths to the sidebar and the content elements, respectively. This allows for longer Blogroll `links`, `Recent comments` and `tags`, too!

The calendar width, too, has been stretched 100% to fill up the sidebar.

Again, it’s better to purchase a paid CSS upgrade so you’ll understand `programming` at its basics and make for a prettier and more presentable weblog here at WordPress.com! Whoot!

I tried different WordPress.com themes with little satisfaction and decided that the Dusk theme by Beccary, along with the color scheme and font styles of Tarski by Benedict Eastaugh and Chris Sternal-Johnson, would work for now.

I felt the blue color scheme was too cool and almost watery, if not depressing. Now the site has taken on a brighter and lighter appearance and hopefully the contents are easier to read. The colors are lime greens for the sidebar headers, warm blues and reds for other links, too.

I was hoping to add a nice background image to the header but wouldn’t know how to make the `auto-fit` element work. The `path.jpg` image from the 2010 them by Automattic matched my `Site title` – The Blogging Path.

Last night I had to remove two widgets, namely `Categories` and `Tags` – both of which serve the same purpose. Only the `Tags` widget doesn’t have a drop-down menu list; whereas the `Categories` widget allows for hierarchy.

For the sake of tracking how many posts I have published, I’ll just leave `rant` as a category all by itself. It doesn’t make sense to use the `QuickPost` feature when there is no `category` field to fill out but a `tag` in its place.

As a result, I was looking around for another WordPress.com theme to use and tweak my paid CSS upgrade. I feel it’s the appearance that is, well, too BORING. I like the `automatic width` adjustment for any screen resolution and/or web page zoom feature.

I just don’t like sameness.