By the way – if you start to see wonky things in the sidebars, I’m tweaking files here and there so I can use them as I get all the skins to a compliant point. Sorry about the mess, please ignore the dust. I should have it fixed soon enough. I feel so validated!
Updated: Well, I did feel validated. Now my CSS isn’t validating and I have NO clue what the error message means since I did nothing to my XML. *sigh* Anyone have any ideas?
WOW. BPC Lite is actually starting to look a lot like the defualt skin for this site. And I am actually understanding this stuff. Wow. Still some things to figure out though:
– Matt put my “Take a Bite” list and others in to and unordered list. This is all great, but it leaves a huge gap between the title and the list itself. How can I get rid of that gap? Fixed thanks to Kristine.
– Also, when there isn’t a list, everything sits right on top of each other. I need a break in some places, and have no idea how to do it without faking it with p tags. Ideas?
– I added links to the validation pages, and my code is soooo far from valid. I think it’s the MT tags that it is choking on though, and I have no clue how to fix them. Getting closer, thanks to help from Kristine & Annessa.
– Kristine? Kristine? Help…….
Want to know what I’m working on right now behind the scenes? The new and improved Big Pink Cookie Lite! Less calories, lower weight, and hopefully in the end it will validate! Now let’s just hope my eyes don’t start bleeding.
Kudos to Matt for cleaning up my CSS for me and making the initial template – I’m just modifying the MT tags, tweaking font sizes, and making sure everything works before it goes live!
April 12, 2002 – ScriptyGoddess was born! Happy First Birthday to ScriptyGoddess! And mad props to Jennifer for letting me be a part of it! I know I haven’t said it often enough lately … YOU ROCK!!!
So I set up the RSS feed with comments the other day. Lisa, aka Unix Gal, the Schneider of the blog world (she can fix anything!), wrote last night about why she doesn’t like it.
I love it for all of the opposite reasons. I am obsessed with keeping everything in NewzCrawler marked as “read”. It’s a challenge for me, and I zoom through posts trying to read them all. If your comments are constantly coming through as updates, I can’t keep on top of that “read” status at all! Especially on sites like Lisa’s or GeekGrrl that get a lot of comments. I left a comment about it earlier on Promo’s site, because on a Monday, I don’t want to see the 70 “I posted mine!” comments. I have to keep my NewzCrawler up to date!
On the other hand, if you have an interesting post that I commented on, I can flag it in NewzCrawler and come back later and see if other comments were made later. I can stay on top of the ones I’m interested in, ignoring the ones that I’m not – just like when I’m blog surfing, only faster. And my little obsessive issue is satisfied.
Lisa makes some really great points, don’t get me wrong. When I first set up my comment feed, I thought it was odd that it doesn’t flag it as updated whenever a comment is left. Now that I’ve had a day or two to get used to it, I like it that way. (I can see it now – we are all going to end up with 80 different types of feeds!)