Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: prose

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

  • 20090902-Old Theme

    Out of frustration at TPTB and boredom from unemployment, I resurrected a tried and true theme here at WordPress.com:

    Pool by Borja Fernandez

    A blue two column with tabbed page navigation, custom header, and widgets.

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

    PROs:

    It has some of my preferred elements:

    • navigation, menu bar towards the top
    • time/date stamp for posts and NOT necessarily for pages.
    • custom header.
    • a search bar towards the top.
    • automatic highlights of pages in the `page widget` of the sidebar.

    CONs:

    • No tagline.
    • CSS stylesheet in Spanish. Had a difficult time figuring what `noticias` meant.
    • Can’t figure out `.wp-caption, .wp-caption img, .wp-caption p.wp-caption-text`.

    The theme appears stable for two internet browsers and for lower screen resolution at 800 by 600 pixels. But it’s better to view my weblog site at a screen resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels.

  • 20090902-Old Theme

    Out of frustration at TPTB and boredom from unemployment, I’m trying out another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Contempt by Michael Heilemann

    A more professional version of Kubrick, sporting hard lines and 2-columns.

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

    Everything looks okay except the list style type, which looks more like a halo or an open mouth than the normal disc or circle for bullet lists.

    I’ve placed the search box on the very top. If one were to do a word search on `Nigeria`, for example, a message appears on top of this search form:

    You have searched the Flynn`s Blogs blog archives for ‘Nigeria’. If you are unable to find anything in these search results, you can try one of these links.

    It’s got a customer header, a tagline and the navigation, menu bar all towards the top of the weblog. However, it doesn’t sport a nice time stamp on the home or front pages or while on archives mode.

    In order to see the time stamp, which appears as a meta towards the bottom of each post, one must click each post entry. Other themes, like `Day Dream`, `Sapphire` and `Kubrick`, show the time stamp in this manner.

  • 20090902-Old Theme

    From `Dusk` to `Sandbox`, I’m trying out the `DayDream` theme for free here at WordPress.com. Why?

    • Large `font-family: Georgia, “Book Antiqua”, “Souvenir Lt BT”, “Times New Roman”, serif;`
    • Custom header sporting a UFO cloud.
    • Navigation, menu bar towards the top.
    • Normal blue fonts, white and gray backgrounds.

    All the essential widgets are located on bottom of this one-column theme:

    • pages;
    • archives;
    • categories;
    • calendar;
    • tag cloud;
    • flickr;
    • recent comments;
    • links;
    • blog stats;
    • askimet;
    • and three hard-coded text.

    As a result, major editing for my pages – Content, About and FAQ – had to be done in order to keep the bullet lines from wrapping to the next lines.

  • 20090901-Collections Calling

    Got call from 626-666-6754 on 9/1/2009 at 16:21pm. Bankster of America appears to be calling from San Gabriel Valley east of Pasadena, CA for money owed by TPTB

  • 20090901-Collections Calling

    Got call from 626-666-6754 on 9/1/2009 at 15:50pm. Bankster of America appears to be calling from San Gabriel Valley east of Pasadena, CA for money owed by TPTB

  • 20090901-Collections Calling

    Got call from 626-666-6754 on 9/1/2009 at 11:50am. Bankster of America appears to be calling from San Gabriel Valley east of Pasadena, CA for money owed by TPTB

  • 20090901-Tweaked CSS

    I’ve been tweaking my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade. I couldn’t figure out how to make the bullets for listed, unordered and ordered items line up perfectly for visual impact. Here are some useful CSS codes for the `Sandbox` theme.

    For the content:

    `div.entry-content ol li {
    color:black;
    margin:0 0 0 30px;
    padding:0;
    }`

    `div.entry-content ul li {
    list-style:disc;
    margin:0 0 0 10px;
    padding:0;
    }`

    `div.entry-content ul ul li {`
    list-style:circle;`
    margin:0 0 0 10px;`
    padding:0;`
    }`

    `div.entry-content ul ul ul li {`
    list-style:square;`
    margin:0 0 0 10px;`
    padding:0;`
    }`

    For the sidebar:

    `div.sidebar ul ul li {`
    list-style:disc;`
    margin:0;`
    }`

    `div.sidebar ul ul ul li {`
    list-style:circle;`
    margin:0;`
    }

    `div.sidebar ul ul ul ul li {`
    list-style:square;`
    margin:0;`
    }

    I can’t figure out the rest and don’t know the purpose of bookmarks, yet.

  • 20090831-Tweaked Pages

    While waiting for that morning’s mass to begin, I once again flipped through the August 2009 edition of `Living with Christ` and focused my attention to the `Tables of Contents` page. Then my big brain processed many thoughts by my small mind and I came up with a cleaner layout to my `Contents` page.

    • Removed the sentences after each of the three sections and use those words as a `hover` over the links: pages, book and archives.
    • Placed main pages in front of a dash followed by proactive verbs to describe each bullet.
    • Removed the annoying sub-pages and its horizontal row from this page and all others, except the archives page.
    • Created more pages and set some from private to public viewing.

  • 20090831-Changed Theme

    Snork! Snork! I’ve changed my free theme here at WordPress.com from `Dusk` to `Sandbox`. Why?

    • Friggin’ bored!
    • I ain’t got NO satisfaction.
    • The `Sandbox` looks visually pleasing with three columns and colors of purple and blue.
    • The time/date stamp is placed nicely underneath the blog entry title.
    • I could show off more widgets, especially the Flickr photos of orgone and orgonite.

  • 20090831-Tweaked Widgets

    Well, I’m still using the `Dusk` theme for `free` here at WordPress.com. But I’ve narrowed down the widgets, three of which are old `text widgets`:

    • Main menu of seven parent pages and one front/home page.
    • Categories now shown horizontally in one row instead of one column of four lines.
    • Useful links of eight internal sources.

    The other four widgets are `default`:

    • Search box form.
    • Flickr widget for `orgone and orgonite`.
    • Blog stats to keep track of how many visits made (including my tests).
    • Askimet to keep track of how many spams blocked.

  • 20090830-Old Theme

    Oh, well. From `ChaosTheory` and `Sandbox` to `DayDream` and `Pool`, I went back to an old theme `Dusk`. Why?

    • Friggin’ bored!
    • I ain’t got no – satisfaction!
    • Time/Date stamps should be underneath the post entry titles.
    • Archives mode shouldn’t be shown as excerpts.
    • Dark colors to avoid eye strain.
    • Some flowers for beauty.

    As a result, I’ve added more widgets and set `Blog pages to show at most – 50`.

    Of course this won’t last for long. If only I know how to work with php.

  • 20090830-Old Theme

    Okay, fine! My apologizes to the readers. For once again, I’ve got NO satisfaction!

    I’m back to a tried and true but free WordPress.com theme:

    ChaosTheory

    A dark single-column monster developed exclusively for WordPress.com

    Tags: black, dark, one-column, fixed-width, widgets, sticky-post, blue, rtl-language-support

    It works for me personally because the `archives mode` now shows the posts in its entirety instead of just excerpts. But I prefer the layout of the `Sandbox` theme because it’s visually pleasing to my eyes. But function overrules looks in this case.

    I’ve used the lighter colors used from the `Sandbox` theme and will probably make the fonts smaller, too.