Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: prose

A literal technique ‘opposite’ to verse (e.g. poetry).

  • 20090921-New Theme

    Yippie! After about two hours of tweaking my weblog site AGAIN, I’ve found the best theme for free here at WordPress.com:

    Sandbox 1.6.1 by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick

    Rich with powerful and dynamic semantic class selectors, Sandbox is a canvas for CSS artists

    Tags: white, microformats, fixed-width, flexible-width, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, four-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar

    Personal PROs:

    • Time/date stamps for posts (not pages) for single and archive views!
    • Navigation for both single and archive modes appear on four corners of the content!
    • Default font size is HUMONGOUS and good for the more myopic eyesights!
    • Other features include: customer header (of a sylph), a sitename, a tagline and a navigation bar with drop-down menu feature!!!

    Personal CONSs:

    • Colors are currently on safe mode and in gray tones. Blah and boring!
    • I can’t suppress the .entry-meta data for the STICKY PAGE, single and archive modes!
    • Posts in archives mode not shown in its entirety.

    I’m keeping this theme! But for how long? Hmmm!

  • 20090921-Old Theme

    Okay, fine! I’m trying another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Andreas09 by Andreas Viklund and Ainslie Johnson

    A three-column theme with customizable colors and sidebars on the left and right.

    Tags: three-columns, white, light, custom-colors, flexible-width, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, widgets

    Personal PROs:

    • customer header (sporting a cloud formation (aka sylph).
    • sitename (Flynn’s Blogs).
    • tagline (My almost Daily Blog for sharing God’S GOLD and living a SuNNY LiFe).
    • navigation (or menu) bar (eight parent pages).
    • two columns (one column for archive and main content).
    • third column (optional for long list of blogroll web links).
    • time/date stamps (for single view of posts (not pages)).
    • full view of posts and pages (for both single and archive modes).

    Personal CONs:

    • time/date stamps (for both archive and single view of posts (not page).
    • meta data is TOO wordy (for both archive and single view of posts (not page).

  • 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-Friggin Warm

    Sunny, clear blue skies w/ some sylphs & chems. Cool in morn then warm thru nite. Saw 2 small birds w/ greenish, yellow belly bathing & 1 robin hopping on lawn.

  • 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.

  • 20090916-Old Theme

    Well, I’m trying another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Andreas09 by Andreas Viklund and Ainslie Johnson

    Tags: three-columns, white, light, custom-colors, flexible-width, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, widgets

    Its got three columns where one sidebar is for archives and the other sidebar is for links.

    I don’t have a custom header but at least its got custom colors, a tagline and navigation/menu bar.

  • 20090915-Tweaked Weblog

    Yippie! I’ve done two new things with my weblog site via my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade:

    • Added my `copyright` and disclaimer notices as a `content“before` the #footer element. I learned how to do this with the`Kubrick` theme.
    • Added a mouse over effect of a button for the sidebar links. I leaned how to do this with the `Solipsus` theme.

  • 20090915-Old Theme

    Haha! I changed my mind again from `Solipsus` to another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Connections by Patricia Müller

    A super classy two-column theme with widgets and a customizable header.

    Tags: custom-header, green, two-columns, fixed-width, right-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post, light, rtl-language-support

    I’ve modeled the sidebar against one my favorite reading material used daily during morning mass. The sidebar sports the following widgets in the order in which they appear:

    • Text widget for welcoming the readers my weblog and its tagline.
    • Search form for submitting queries.
    • Page widget for the main menu of eight parent pages.
    • Flickr widget showing photos of orgone and orgonite.
    • Text widget of `recommended reading` of four books authored by DB.
    • Askimet widget showing the number of spams blocked.
    • Blog stats widget showing the total visits.
    • A gravatar widget of useful links.

    But this time, instead of the time/date stamp appearing underneath the post title or page title (for that matter) when viewed in `archive mode` or `front page mode`, the meta information appears as an `Archived Entry` when viewing ONE post entry at a time.

    This would be my compromise between the time/date stamp and a nice custom header sporting a cloud formation, which is really a sylph!

  • 20090915-Old Theme

    Okay, fine. I’m back with a free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Solipsus by Tiffany Nguyen (Rikkye)

    A black and brown two-column design with flowers, clouds and a sun.

    Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, dark, rtl-language-support, left-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post

    I’ve modeled the sidebar against one my favorite reading material used daily during morning mass. The sidebar sports the following widgets in the order in which they appear:

    • Text widget for welcoming the readers my weblog and its tagline.
    • Search form for submitting queries.
    • Page widget for the main menu of eight parent pages.
    • Flickr widget showing photos of orgone and orgonite.
    • Text widget of `recommended reading` of four books authored by DB.
    • Askimet widget showing the number of spams blocked.
    • Blog stats widget showing the total visits.
    • A gravatar widget of useful links.

  • 20090915-Collections Calling

    Got two collections call for what TPTB still owes moi from:

    • 866-635-4316 at 17:46pm on 09/15/2009 (Bankster of America via VM);
    • 303-862-2195 at 12:43pm on 09/15/2009 (Unknown caller via fax machine);
    • 303-862-2195 at 10:51am on 09/15/2009 (Unknown caller);
    • 866-635-4316 at 10:26am on 09/15/2009 (Bankster of America);
    • 623-492-6031 at 09:25am on 09/15/2009 (American Expresster) and
    • 626-666-6754 at 18:38pm on 09/14/2009 (Bankster of America).

  • 20090914-Collections Calling

    Got collections call from 626-666-6754 @ 0904am today. Made one small payment on one but have six more owed by TPTB. Wonder if Barry can give me job or govt DA.

  • 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.