CSS fried my brain
permalinks, div classes, pseudo-classes, Oh My!
Ever since I started my blog, AJG-fiaRFoC, there have been a few things I was unhappy with. I got the format from a template(whose maker I give credit to) and proceeded to reprogram and replace the entire header (pics, spacing, etc...). I customized all the colors, designed my own images, made my own link buttons, added a bunch of plug-ins, and the like. It took forever and a day. I knew nothing about CSS coding, but was determined to figure it out.
I've been posting for awhile now, and never could figure out why other people had single-post archive pages and permalinks. I thought that's what a trackback was, but I figured that I just didn't know how to use it. A couple of days ago, I finally got fed up with what I had and began to search for how to change it.
Blogger help was no help at all, and proceeds to be of no help with anything I need. Google searches weren't turning up any answers either, and rarely have for the things I've wanted to change. So I "view source" on another blogger blog that had the permalink I wanted. It took awhile to figure out what was actual coding and what were blogger tags since tags aren't visible when you view source code that way. In fact, it took a few hours of comparing my template code with theirs. And then I had to figure out exactly where to place the several seperate lines of code to make it work. Finally, 4 hours later, I had permalinks! Yay!
Tonight, I finally got fed up with the links in my posts and the links in the widebar being the same. I wanted the posts to have uppercase links with mouseover effects too, and the sidebar as well as the post footers to be all lowercase. I still don't know how I figured it out, but somehow after a couple of hours of messing around with this new idea of combining pseudo-classes and div classes... wallah!
I know... quite a few of read the above and thought it was all Greek. I'm still thinking that it is too, even while writing about it. But I'm happy. I was somehow able to figure out this CSS coding stuff without any help. Not that I wasn't asking for help, or wanting it badly, but it just wasn't there. I long for the day when search engines will take full questions and find answers for you. But then again, I think I enjoy the frustrations and victories of problem solving. I'm learning CSS code purely by deduction, and it's cool.
My thoughts for the night.
Ever since I started my blog, AJG-fiaRFoC, there have been a few things I was unhappy with. I got the format from a template(whose maker I give credit to) and proceeded to reprogram and replace the entire header (pics, spacing, etc...). I customized all the colors, designed my own images, made my own link buttons, added a bunch of plug-ins, and the like. It took forever and a day. I knew nothing about CSS coding, but was determined to figure it out.
I've been posting for awhile now, and never could figure out why other people had single-post archive pages and permalinks. I thought that's what a trackback was, but I figured that I just didn't know how to use it. A couple of days ago, I finally got fed up with what I had and began to search for how to change it.
Blogger help was no help at all, and proceeds to be of no help with anything I need. Google searches weren't turning up any answers either, and rarely have for the things I've wanted to change. So I "view source" on another blogger blog that had the permalink I wanted. It took awhile to figure out what was actual coding and what were blogger tags since tags aren't visible when you view source code that way. In fact, it took a few hours of comparing my template code with theirs. And then I had to figure out exactly where to place the several seperate lines of code to make it work. Finally, 4 hours later, I had permalinks! Yay!
Tonight, I finally got fed up with the links in my posts and the links in the widebar being the same. I wanted the posts to have uppercase links with mouseover effects too, and the sidebar as well as the post footers to be all lowercase. I still don't know how I figured it out, but somehow after a couple of hours of messing around with this new idea of combining pseudo-classes and div classes... wallah!
I know... quite a few of read the above and thought it was all Greek. I'm still thinking that it is too, even while writing about it. But I'm happy. I was somehow able to figure out this CSS coding stuff without any help. Not that I wasn't asking for help, or wanting it badly, but it just wasn't there. I long for the day when search engines will take full questions and find answers for you. But then again, I think I enjoy the frustrations and victories of problem solving. I'm learning CSS code purely by deduction, and it's cool.
My thoughts for the night.