There’s an outside chance I’m going to redesign the old blog again this summer. The darkness is good and good for the environment and all, but I’m thinking we might need to be a little sunnier.
I am now taking suggestions on colors, but they must be given in HEX value.
I’ve been having some Wordpress/GoDaddy issues on the administration side of this site. If you’ve submitted a comment previously and it has been slow to be approved, I have now remedied the situation. I was not receiving notifications of comments (for some weird reason that I still don’t understand). As far as I can tell, it boiled down to the php_mailer function in Wordpress not being supported by GoDaddy hosting, at least in this release.
I found a fantastic plugin that sends notification e-mails using SMTP instead of PHPMail.
Don’t forget about my pledge to not eat red meat. Help me buy a cow from Heifer International.
Thank you all for your comments on the Complete This Sentence project. I thought the comments were all awesome. There were some that I wish I could have fit into the allotted space, but couldn’t, particularly this one:
Shane…eats lightning and craps thunder.
If you have other ideas, please feel free to leave them in the comments. For now, if you’d like to see what made the cut, just refresh the page and watch the top. Some that I chose were actually variations on suggestions to make them either more accurate or funnier. Or they were edited so they’d fit. Others were ones that I thought of along the way.
Thanks again for your participation. And now, back to your regularly scheduled program…
Don’t forget…you can participate in the design of this website by contributing your pithy quote to completing this sentence:
Shane…
To see examples, just refresh the main page and watch the top banner to see what I’m talking about. There have been some great submissions so far. Keep them coming by commenting on this post.
I’ll be taking submissions a couple more days and then look to my site to see any new banners in the rotation. Thanks for your participation!
While most of you read my blog through the tasty RSS feed, there are still a few out there that prefer it in all its beauty in a browser. Those of you who go to the site are in for a treat.
I’ve been wanting to create my own Wordpress theme for a long time, but I’ve always been terrified of breaking the three years of blogging backlog I’ve got, so I never tackled it. Then Travis recently took a crack at it and he said it was easy. Now, granted, he is a genius. However, I was intrigued and I’ve been wanting to customize my site ever since. I am, after all, a web designer by trade.
So I mocked up what I liked in Photoshop and coded the XHTML. Then, I used an existing theme to try and figure out the nuances of Wordpress and PHP. I managed to figure most of it out and for the last 6 or 8 hours have been working diligently to get it up and running.
There’s no doubt that it’s buggy and I’ve missed plenty of stuff, but for now…it works.
As for the pink – you’ll notice that the design is rather dark…the only color coming from splashes of pink. I’ve decided that to raise awareness for Breast Cancer Awareness month. In addition, the darkness of the site is actually BETTER for the environment because monitors do not have to work as hard to display black. So in “going pink”, I’m also “going green”.
I’m planning on putting in a CSS switcher that will allow you to customize your colors to an extent, but that’s down the road. For now, I must say I’m pretty proud of myself for not breaking it. Sure there will be growing pains, but the fact that I managed to create a widget-ready theme in a night…well, that just makes my header all the more true.
OK, so I heard something that bummed me out. The current design of this site does not work in IE 7. BLECH.
So, I’m going to be doing some tweaking. Bear with me. I doubt it will be anytime soon before I jump into creating an actual theme like the one in my previous post, but we’ll see.
So, you may or may not have read my last post, reviewing Cardroom Supply, Inc., an internet retailer of poker supplies. You might find yourself wondering…what the heck?
I’m testing out this new web site, ReviewMe.com, a place where bloggers and advertisers can meet together in pursuit of one glorious thing: Money.
Now, I’m not one of the most famous bloggers in the world by any means, but once I heard of the concept (you submit your site, advertisers submit requests for reviews, you write them, they pay you), I thought it sounded like something I would like to try. First…reviewing stuff for money? Sounds like a conflict of interest if you ask me, but the web site states that you don’t have to necessarily be positive in your reviews. Having the assertion that you can remain objective and STILL get paid…that sounded like some sweet action to me.
So I checked the site out and submitted this fair blog to be a part of their directory. Apparently, there are not many poker bloggers because I got a request for review immediately after signing up (the aforementioned previous post).
Once I accepted the review, all I had to do was write the review, enter the address of the review, then click one button on the Review Me site to complete the process. A later e-mail notified me that my review had been approved (all reviews must be at least 200 words), and I’ll be getting $20 for my review of Cardroom Supply. Pretty cool.
So, here’s how this applies to you, dear reader: I’ll be submitting reviews on here periodically as a part of this program. I like money, particularly that which doesn’t require a heckuva lot of work. I’ll do my best to stay as neutral as I can, but I imagine that the more money I receive, the happier I’ll be. Either way, I’ll still do my best to post other content too.
Feel free to call me a hypocrite in the comments.
The preceding is a paid advertisement as a part of the ReviewMe.com network.
NOTE: For those of you who read this site via feed and do not visit, you can ignore this message…it has to do with presentation on the site side.
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Are they gone yet?
OK, so here’s the deal for those of you that actually visit the site instead of reading the feed: I’m messing with the presentation…it may be a while before I’m done. I’m adding some AdSense ads and stuff in the sidebar (which may or may not stay) and I’m considering working on my very own Wordpress theme. It might be a good exercise for me, but PHP scares me. It could be a big old mess.
I know I just redesigned, but after further exploration in a lesser browser (that doesn’t support PNG files…STUPID IE!), I realized it wasn’t displaying right.
I’ve said this many times, but I’ll have some time on my hands in a little while. More on that shortly. Have a great evening.
OK, so I was all set to get my blog moved over to a more lightweight theme, considering modding the Indigo theme by Kaushal Sheth. I got it working, but there was something wacky going on with the sidebar widgets and I didn’t really want to mess with all the work of trying to fix it right now. Maybe eventually, but I have yet to find a theme that works better than K2.
I did remove the Flickr photos from the sidebar, although I doubt anyone noticed. Content soon. I also have an update on the weight loss (thought I forgot, didn’t you?).
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