The idiosyncrasies of blogger and the various other bits and pieces of HTML that I use here confound me at times.
I arrived home from work last night wanting only to eat and sleep, to discover to my chagrin that my blog had mysteriously rearranged itself, not for the better I might add! Those invisible gremlins had been at work again and for no apparent reason.
Two items in my sidebar had moved to 'align left' instead of 'align centre'two didn't operate at all and consequently prevented the remainder of the page loading and my 'delete comments' option had 'done the off' altogether. Add to that some comments where repeated more than once and I just know it is not the error of the poster.
So miffed and tired I set about sorting it all out. The two misaligned items where fast realigned, tho strangely the HTML was still as it should be, nothing had changed it just didn't seem to be doing the job any longer, the two inoperable items I deleted having discovered that the host is suffering some gremlin of its own and the comment delete option remains defunct. A rapidly typed communication to Blogger help still awaits reply on that one!!
I have been considering 'moving' for a while and all this only serves to tempt me to consider further if I should relocate to 'movabletype' or some such, or at least run this from my own domain ( I would into the bargain lose the damn advertising that way). Two problems immediately strike me there, one I'm not entirely sure if my technical ability is up to movabletype yet and two, my domain host seems to have rather more 'downtime' than I would like. Arghhhhhh!
This morning among all this and having noted from one or two readers that the blogger comment system has various failings, I decided to change to Haloscan. Again I encountered more aggravation. As I expected, unless I run both comment systems I effectively lose all my previous comments (and I don't want to) and having duly inserted the code , you've guessed it.........Halsocan wasn't working!! I have visited many sites using haloscan and I have to admit on a number of occasions it wouldn't allow me to comment so I don't know why I was surprised!! Suffice to say for now I have removed it again.
I do this for fun????..........give me strength!
Monday, 2 August 2004
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Apologies for probably telling you what you already know, but have you tried putting 'free blogging' into Google = there seem to be lots of alternatives to Blogger out there. Haven't looked properly and no idea what they are like, but they would probably be easier than doing your own entirely.
Hey, no apology required. There are alternatives but from what I read blogger is probably one of the better. I think in the end I do will go to movabletype, the challenge to 'make it work' is there staring me in the eye ......maybe not just yet tho! lol.
Hokay sis... we're on the same page here! I just spent the last hour an a half tweakin html to try to link a few way cool folks, and maybe even (as ya suggested) move my guestbook,..... AND IT AINT WERKING!!!! what am i doin wrong??? speaking of which... I dont seem to have you on my IM list.. so yew (ewe?) are gonna have ta hollar at ME! Get back wit' me A.S.A>p>... on account of I just got a phone call from a real live man that (I think) is on his way over...lol
Lol. Magz......bloody HTML eh? hehe
I got u on IM but your 'out'.........real live man! Hmmm ;o)
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