Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: pages

  • 20091013-Tweaking Again

    I’ve been tweaking my weblog again!

    Here is a summary of the changes for the paid CSS stylesheet upgrade:

    • Background color of `title` element is black (#000000) and
    • Hover after `title h1` element reads: `Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare` (Japanese proverb).

    Here is the new order for widgets in the left sidebar:

    • Text widget – about: Shorter tagline reads as `god`S GOLD for a SuNNY LiFe`;
    • Search form;
    • Page widget – main menu (showing one parent, three children and six grandchildren with great-grandchildren hidden);
    • Image widget – home alone: Dante’s Inferno Satan and words of encouragement;
    • RSS links widget for my posts and comments;
    • Image widget – recommended reading: Four books authored and signed by Don Bradley;
    • Flickr widget – orgone and orgonite (3 most recent images);
    • Image widget – want to help? (PayPal donation);
    • Akismet widget – spam blocked (currently 88,650 spam comments); and
    • Blog stats widget – (currently 37,304 visits).

    Here is a summary of the changes for pages:

    • Contents – the only parent page.
    • Pages (six children): about, blogger, contact, faq, orgone, and welcome.
    • Book (six children): service page of old, religious poems modeled after a Catholic mass and five web-book sections.
    • Archives (no children).

  • 20091009-Tweaking Again

    I’ve been tweaking my weblog site again this morning. After deleting pages that I never gotten around to completing, the new `service` page has been added as a `child` to the `parent` page called `book`.

    This new `service` page is modeled after a typical Catholic Mass. Of course, much like Obama, it’s all about moi. The contents of this `service` page are my old, religious poems.

    I searched my weblog using key words to describe what I wanted and in a particular order. Sometimes, I knew exactly which of the religious poems to use and those fit perfectly.

    The links to these old poems are in bold `h2` headers; while the ones in normal black bold headers are new ones created.

  • 20091009-Tweaking Again

    Out of sheer boredom with my sorry life due to being unemployed for over two friggin’ years and lacking any common sense to get myself out of this financial raping by TPTB, I’ve been tweaking my weblog site.

    1. Set my front page to display `[my] latest posts` with three (3) posts per page.

    2. Set widgets in the sidebar in the following order:

    • Text: Tagline greeting.
    • Pages: as main menu.
    • Search form.
    • Text: Another greeting.
    • RSS links to my blogs RSS feeds.
    • Archives.
    • Calendar.
    • Category Cloud.
    • Tag Cloud.
    • Image: Recommended Reading.
    • Flickr: Orgone and Orgonite.
    • Blog Stats.
    • Askimet: Spams Blocked.
    • Image: Donation.
    • Gravatar: Various Links.

    3. Organized the hierarchy of pages and set some pages to `private` mode. May delete later on.

    4. Edited my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade by removing the two-column codes and setting the left margin of the `#sidebar ul ul ul` to 10px.

    5. Reverted back to the `Dusk` theme.

    6. Removed div styles for two-columns and used tables instead. Much better.

  • 20091007-Tweaked Page

    Well, as usual due to sheer boredom, lack of employment and of NO satisfaction, I’ve tweaked my `Home` page, which is titled `Highlights`. The decision was made after sampling the main page of Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia.

    The tables are separated by a `horizontal bar` (or `<hr />`).

    Each table is colored coded, too!

    Here are the details:

    • Yellow – Short Angel poem.
    • Blue – Topics of interest with descriptions in proactive verbs.
    • Red – Two sets of photos from the Shareapic.net website.
    • Purple – Three sets of photos from FlynnsPaws.
    • Green – More links of interest: 15 recent posts, Flickr.com slideshows, Orgone pages and four categories.
    • Orange – One YouTube.com video on `Chemtrails of Death`.

  • 20091005-Two Columns

    I searched online for a 2-column CSS generator. And found the layout worked well for my `Sitemap` page AND my `Welcome` page. I tried it for the rest but the margins don’t automatically fit for the next line. I may try three columns for the `Welcome` page just to get the images lined up horizontally with the text below each one.

    The codes must be entered for both the CSS stylesheet and each post or page entry, though. And it’s tedious work to copy and paste exactly where the text must be cut off for a readable and visually pleasing layout.

  • 20091002-Tweaking Again

    Yippie! In just a couple of minutes, I made my `Calendar widget` look prettier! It now has the button effect with blue puffing out and yellow denting in! I love tweaking my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade! I cannot get enough with perfection, which explains why I am still SINGLE and UNMARRIED! Brouhaha!

    In addition:

    • Added back my four poems but this time they are inside their colorful tables: light yellow for the angel poem, light blue for the epitaph and light red for the two vertical-shaped poems – elegy and prologue.
    • Added two widgets (month and calendar) to visually balance the horizontal length of both the sidebar floating to the left and the content floating to the right.
    • Reverted back to the `Dusk` theme.
    • Temporarily set the large custom header featuring the sylph to hidden visibility.

  • 20091002-Tweaked Page

    Anyway, after trolling for articles on any updates to the health care bill, I’ve sampled the front page of C-SPAN.org and decided to tweak my `Home` (or front) page from showing four poems to presenting the following `Highlights`:

    • `Last most recent 15 posts`;
    • Three orgone images from FlynnsPaws (75 x 75);
    • Three links to Flickr slideshows;
    • Three sky-related images from FlynnsPaws (75 x 75);
    • A poll (which noone cares to take); and
    • Four links to categories.

    Check it out! Or else, evil kitty will not be happy! Hiss! Hiss!

  • 20090920-Tweaked Blog

    I’ve tweaked my weblog:

    • A`Front` (or `Home`) page of four poems and renamed as `Blogger’s note`.
    • A customer header showing an etheric cloud formation (or a sylph, really)!
    • Cooler colors of blue and gray to match the customer header.
    • Reduced number of widgets to six.
      • Text widget: a tagline, an illustration by Dante and two links to my feed.
      • Search form for text queries.
      • Pages widget listing parent pages as the main menu.
      • Flickr widget of orgone and orgonite.
      • Text widget of `recommended readings`.
      • Gravatar widget of useful links.

  • 20090918-Old Theme

    I’m back with the free theme here at WordPress.com: `Dusk` because, once again, of its time/date stamp feature, followed by the categories and tags element. I  found a `color scheme generator` for my light, purple and gray color based on the default background color #556677 as per the `body element` found on my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade.

    The `before` and `after` content feature was added as a text for the #footer element and the #title element, both of which only appears for the FireFox browser and shows up blank for the Internet Explorer browser. I removed that feature from my CSS stylesheet.

    I’ve tried other themes:

    • `Unsleepable` for sub-pages on the main menu of the right sidebar.
    • `Blix`  for pages AND posts viewed without sidebars.
    • `Kubrick`, `Pool`, `Sapphire`, `Sunburn`, `Black Letterhead`, `Connections`, `Andreas09`, `Solipsus`, `Almost Spring`, `Fleur De Lys`, `ChaosTheory`, `Sandbox`, `Rounded`, `Contempt`, `Misty`, `Quentin`, `White As Milk`, `Redoable Lite`, `Garland`, `DayDream`, `P2`, `Silver Is The New Black`, `DePo Masthead`, `The Journalist v1.9`, `Hemingway` for time/date stamps primarily.

  • 20090911-Old Theme

    I’m back on a free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Sandbox 0.6.1 by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick

    A theme with powerful, semantic CSS selectors and the ability to add new skins.

    Tags: white, left-sidebar, theme-options, widgets, two-columns, one-column, three-columns, right-sidebar, flexible-width, microformats, rtl-language-support

    The Current Skin is:

    Three-Column Minimalist 1.0 by Scott Allan Wallick

    Minimalist style with left and right-sidebars

    The left sidebar is for archives of my weblog. The right sidebar is for the orgone, such as the Flickr.com group pool, links to vendors and recommended readings. The length for both sidebars are almost even. I had to increase the gravatar image of a small white flower against its green leaves to 128 pixels. This compensates for the shortened gap of the left sidebar.

    The main colors to my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade are mostly gray and blue:

    • Body and block quote #eee;
    • Header #ddd;
    • Content #fff;
    • a: #006699; and
    • a: hover #3399CC.

    I had to remove the light blue to purplish background color to something more monotone like gray but lighter than dark. I didn’t want to present anymore weird symbolic weight to color coding for TPTB and thought that the gray tone would symbolize something more neutral, neither red nor purple.

    The `Front page displays` has be set from [My] latest posts to:

    • Front page: Home and
    • Posts page: Archives.

    I wanted to keep track of the many times people viewed that `front page` (aka `home page`) and if people would view the archives page of `Blog pages show at most`: 3 (three) posts instead of 15 (fifteen) posts, which I felt was too long to view at one page.

    I pray that this would be the VERY last time I’d tweak the overall appearance of my WordPress.com weblog.

  • 20090909-Fixed Pages

    1. I’ve added the following to the top of the `Welcome` page.

    • An old greeting: `Welcome to Flynn’s Blogs!`
    • A new tagline: `My almost daily weblog for sharing God’S GOLD and living a SuNNY LiFe.`

    2. Then I’ve moved the Dante’s illustration of `Jesus preaching to a crowd` from the bottom of the `Welcome` page and placed that one on the top of the `Parables` page.

    3. The `Angels` page is the same except I’ve made the image of a Sun between two angels smaller.

  • 20090905-Static Pages

    With my purple-colored theme of Sandbox 0.6.1 by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick, I changed the static pages to:

    • Front page: Welcome (my LONGEST page sporting seven of Gustave Doré’s illustrations) and
    • Posts page: Archives (formerly Recent Posts).

    Since none really reads my blog from whatever the `Front page displays`, the smarter and MORE patient readers will end up navigating to the `Recent posts` links and click those one by one from the sidebar widget or to the ‘Archives‘ page and view the last 15 most recent posts. Brouhaha!

    So maybe it might be easier to read my passionately written posts via the RSS feed. Subscribe now! Or else, I’ll be rather displeased. Meh!