Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Child's Play
It's so true. If I can do this - then absolutely anybody can! Blogger doesn't come with a whole lot of choices when it comes to their templates, and they are pretty limited in what you can do with them, especially if you don't have a clue as to what you're doing in the first place. When I started this thing about 3 weeks ago, I didn't have the faintest idea of how to create a link, let alone post a photo, and I probably couldn't have given you the definition for "HTML" unless I looked it up.
By looking at the source codes on a lot of other sites, I quickly figured out the whole Meta Tag thingies and started hacking away at this template. I even more quickly learned to save a backup copy of the most current template when I was editing it, when one of the cats came trotting across the desk, hit an errant key, and sent the whole thing to cyber trash. (Note to cat: One less life for you Peanut, I think you're down to 7 now. )
Today's challenge was figuring out how to put photos in my sidebar. A BIG thanks to tuesdayscoming for helping me out and letting me steal some lines of code so I could figure out how to create book links with cover photos (see the new section!).
Of course, now it's nearly 2:00, and aside from coffee, laundry and a few phone calls - I've gotten nothing significant accomplished today. So....off to run errands. Hope the car starts, I haven't touched it since the snowstorm.
