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Tag: widgets

  • 20090909-Tweaked Widget

    Finished editing ‘Recommended Reading’ widget to ‘Uwantsun! Orgone & Books’ prior to tonite’s speech. Found that products page is 404! Linked to mirror site,eg!

  • 20090907-Site Map

    After navigating to a website by `Chris Bollyn` and after reading a letter dated 05-02-2007 containing that familiar half-naked photo of curly-haired angel-guy pointing his index finger skyward, I was inspired to tweaked my weblog again!

    I realized that my `Gravatar widget` image could be linked as a `Sitemap`! This widget already has the `Disclaimer` and `Copyright` links way on the bottom of the left sidebar.  So I copy and pasted the data found on the `Pages widget`. And entered my new `Sitemap – Read more!` link of the `main menu` widget.

  • 20090907-New Theme

    Sorry, folks! I’m trying yet another 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

    PROs:

    • Header is closer to the top, unlike theme`Dusk`, which has a header that pushes my content and sidebars too low into the middle of the screen.
    • Instead of dark blue color of the former, this latter is dark brown and black.
    • It has a left sidebar unlike most other themes, which uses right sidebars.
    • It also has flowers, one sun, one cloud and one frowning face.
    • The date/time stamp, along with comments meta, is located underneath POST titles.
    • No meta appears underneath PAGES.
    • This theme features the < hr > element as a flowery design. Neat!

    CONs:

    • It’s dark but not too dark to hurt the eyes with contrasting, brightly-colored fonts.
    • The letters appear too small but editing my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade helps to increase the font-size to 84% (via the `body` element).
    • There is no custom header.
    • There is no navigation bar with drop-down menu feature.
    • There is no tagline: see reason below.

    Since I still wanted to RETAIN the image of Dante’s Satan in Inferno and the brief welcome message to describe what to do with this weblog, I removed a parent`home` page, which had the same greeting as shown on the `text widget` (which is currently located uppermost left hand portion of the sidebar):

    `God’s goal: be sunny life`. (This is my blog’s tagline).

    Having a left sidebars means I could set my `Front page display` to latest posts instead of setting the `Front page` to `Home` and the `Post page` to `Archives`. My purpose is to allow a short introduction when viewing my weblog through the `front page` via a mobile, cellphone.

    The sidebars may change as I continue to tweak the appearance of my IMPERFECT weblog site.

  • 20090905-Old Theme

    Gosh darnit! Sorry but I’ve changed back to the light purple 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

    And in order to display both the lengthy sidebar widgets for archives items and orgone-related stuff, the Sandbox Skin is:

    Three-Column Minimalist 1.0 by Scott Allan Wallick

    Minimalist style with left and right-sidebars

  • 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.

  • 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-Widgets Won’t

    I’ve discovered that `text widgets` don’t work on my Internet Explorer browser when hard coding with `< ul >` and `< li >`. Some of the widgets end up on the bottom and near the footer!

    As a result, I’ve removed the unlisted and listed codes from the `text widgets` of the sidebar and merely clicked on the `Automatically add paragraphs.`

    So the point is to use as much of the `default widgets` provided by WordPress.com and less of the `text widgets`. It’s really annoying to hard code stuff that is readily available by the weblog host.

  • 20090829-Damn Widgets

    I noticed that hardcoding `text widgets` doesn’t line up properly or flushed left when view through an old cellphone, like mine. Further, I saw a list style type – `disc` – floating annoyingly somewhere on the upper right hand corner of the `Dusk` theme. AND to tick me off, when viewing my weblog site with an Internet Explorer browser, the very last`text widget` ended up on the bottom near the footer!

    Out of frustration, I ended up switching from `Dusk` theme to `Sandbox` theme and used more `default` widgets than I’d like; since less visual junk loads up faster for those with slower internet connections.

    I’m not a big fan of widgets or sidebars for the matter. I’m hoping that team Automattic would program more shortcodes to save under `pages` and/or `posts` to allow admin users the option to use shortcodes or widgets or combination of both. Here is my wish list for more shortcodes:

    • Flickr: In addition to videos, I want multiple photos.
    • Stats: In addition to `Summary Tables`, I want for `Referrers`, `Top Posts and Pages`, `Search Engine Terms` and `Clicks`.
    • Pages: A nice d-tree would be nice.
    • Links: A nice d-tree would be nice.
    • Categories: A nice d-tree would be nice.

  • 20090828-Google Translate

    Wow! I just tried `Google Translate` for my weblog from English to Filipino. And I could read and understand my FOREIGN language by comparing the original English version with the translated one.

    As a result, I’ve moved the description to each line item to the next line for my two `Text widgets` – `main menu` and `categories`  – by pressing the `Enter` key. This is to allow room for the longer translation of Filipino words. I also created another `Text widget` – `translate` – for my readers’ convenience.

  • 20090827-Text Widgets

    For those using outdated cellphones with limited internet browsing features, I’ve discovered how to make each line item of your `Text widgets` stack nicely on top of each other and more flushed to the left of your cellphone screen when hardcoding HTML into the `Text widgets` found in sidebars:

    • Remove the < ul >;
    • Replace with < li >;
    • Check the `Automatically add paragraphs.`;
    • Press the `Save` button and
    • Minimize or close your `Text widgets`.

  • 20090827-Tweaking Widgets

    Trying to figure out hardcoding ”ul’, ‘li’, ‘Automatically add paragraphs.’ Removed ‘ul’ & used ‘li’ w/ auto ‘p’. Testing viewability w/ outdated cellphond….

  • 20090816-Sidebars Suck

    Had to put back sidebar to spice weblog. Minimal view, less images, faster loading for slower conection. Down to 5 widgets: stats, spam, flickr, calendar, tags.