Why is it more pleasurable and stimulating to spring clean and detail a blog site than a real house?
Ah, sweet irony, as I sit here surrounded by clutter, whether at home or work, but it's so rewarding to tinker with HTML, jpegs, widgets and gadgets until they're just so.
Pardon my virtual dust!
Showing posts with label HTML. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HTML. Show all posts
Friday, September 12, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Disaster averted!
A huge thank you to The Other Andrew and Sephyroth, who just nursemaided me through a blogger's ultimate nightmare:
I ended up with a weird glitch in my Blogger template last night. I tried to fix it ("cleverly" taking a copy of the HTML from another window I happened to have open - but it was only of one recent post) and, of course, everything looked perfectly fine when I previewed it. Then I've realised I'd managed to cause a logic loop of some kind.
Following some advice, I managed to do more of the same (ie. with more archived posts showing up, but the page itself was still "static".) Every link in my template kept me (and any readers out there) looping back to that same small sample of blog entries.
Time to seek out some HTML experts! (Surely, I kept telling myself, two years of earlier entries couldn't have been wiped out by one small coding error. I mean, I never pressed "Delete". The old posts must still be stored somewhere, even though I've seemingly severed all the old links?)
While waiting (im)patiently for an answer to my pleas (Sephy's on US time), I started grabbing Google caches of various "important pages", retrieving the HTML of my two annual indexes (so at least I had the titles of two years of entries). I started to imagine that, over time, I could rebuild the whole site from Google's cached pages. But, did I even need to? If it was just a minor HTML correction needed in the template I'd rather do it that way...
Then, at about 4.45am this morning, Sephy came to my rescue. Thanks everyone at Aussie Bloggers for all your good vibes, and especially thanks to Sephy, kathiemt, Snoskred and The Other Andrew. I could visualise what needed to be done, but that little voice in my head kept telling me I'd created a mess that wasn't fixable.
Essentially, all that was needed was to restore the Blogger template back to the one I was using, as it had all the specialised tags that Blogger uses to make posts appear (which the HTML I pasted in, in my panic last night, didn't). Then I just had to find all special code I'd so bravely added over the years (the sidebar, Sitemeter, etc) from the code in the static page I still had, save that to my computer, and then put it back in where it needed to be in the refreshed, but now-generic, template.
Easy! (When you're thinking straight, and have wonderful Internet friends to support you.) Yes, I did get a few hours of sleep overnight, but not enough.
Oh well, it's breakfast time...
I ended up with a weird glitch in my Blogger template last night. I tried to fix it ("cleverly" taking a copy of the HTML from another window I happened to have open - but it was only of one recent post) and, of course, everything looked perfectly fine when I previewed it. Then I've realised I'd managed to cause a logic loop of some kind.
Following some advice, I managed to do more of the same (ie. with more archived posts showing up, but the page itself was still "static".) Every link in my template kept me (and any readers out there) looping back to that same small sample of blog entries.
Time to seek out some HTML experts! (Surely, I kept telling myself, two years of earlier entries couldn't have been wiped out by one small coding error. I mean, I never pressed "Delete". The old posts must still be stored somewhere, even though I've seemingly severed all the old links?)
While waiting (im)patiently for an answer to my pleas (Sephy's on US time), I started grabbing Google caches of various "important pages", retrieving the HTML of my two annual indexes (so at least I had the titles of two years of entries). I started to imagine that, over time, I could rebuild the whole site from Google's cached pages. But, did I even need to? If it was just a minor HTML correction needed in the template I'd rather do it that way...
Then, at about 4.45am this morning, Sephy came to my rescue. Thanks everyone at Aussie Bloggers for all your good vibes, and especially thanks to Sephy, kathiemt, Snoskred and The Other Andrew. I could visualise what needed to be done, but that little voice in my head kept telling me I'd created a mess that wasn't fixable.
Essentially, all that was needed was to restore the Blogger template back to the one I was using, as it had all the specialised tags that Blogger uses to make posts appear (which the HTML I pasted in, in my panic last night, didn't). Then I just had to find all special code I'd so bravely added over the years (the sidebar, Sitemeter, etc) from the code in the static page I still had, save that to my computer, and then put it back in where it needed to be in the refreshed, but now-generic, template.
Easy! (When you're thinking straight, and have wonderful Internet friends to support you.) Yes, I did get a few hours of sleep overnight, but not enough.
Oh well, it's breakfast time...
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Going pro
My Site meter on this blog site regularly tells me that people find these entries more often by the images that appear on them, rather than my words of wisdom. (I've been sitting on my maximum 200 Flickr pics for several months now, and trying to think of clever ways to recycle them in new blog entries.)
Today, with that in mind, I made a new attempt to pay for a professional unlimited upgrade to my free Flickr account. This time, all the wacky Javascripts, or whatever they are, decided to work correctly with Firefox 2. Uploading to Flickr is certainly more efficient that fiddling around with tools to upload material to my regular old web spaces, and trying to remember the HTML to reference them properly, so hopefully this with be a worthwhile investment.
Here's to a more pictorial blog site!
Today, with that in mind, I made a new attempt to pay for a professional unlimited upgrade to my free Flickr account. This time, all the wacky Javascripts, or whatever they are, decided to work correctly with Firefox 2. Uploading to Flickr is certainly more efficient that fiddling around with tools to upload material to my regular old web spaces, and trying to remember the HTML to reference them properly, so hopefully this with be a worthwhile investment.
Here's to a more pictorial blog site!
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