I spent the past few days refreshing html/hex code knowledge once acquired and used frequently in my ex-Corporate life/entrepreneurial mindset. Five minutes into the game, it all came back to me...but not without help.
This site was useful in steering me to the right direction in blog makeovers rather swiftly. I managed to do
not one, but two in a day. Click on menu tabs above,
just below the header image on this page, and see for yourself.
As you see, I made a couple more changes to the layout. One was adding borders to my images, changing borders style and color, and increasing/decreasing space between image and border. As my image is much smaller now, any added background as a border would be too small to visualize anyway. So, I opted out such modification.
This is what I did: First, I went to Blogger and logged in, navigated to
LAYOUT >>
EDIT HTML >> and find the following code--you may click
ctrl+f to find it via your browser finder.post img {
BEFORE
.post img {
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
padding:2px;
}
AFTER
.post img {
border: 4px outset #0000CD;
padding:1px
}
Be sure to PREVIEW before saving the changes.The second change--
Automatic Thumbnail and Read More Feature--is much more noticeable. A well written tutorial is
here. Hope you enjoy these little tricks as I move on to more tweaking...one baby-step at a time :D
Next question to self: Do I care to be blessed with Google sitelinks or not? If the structure of my site doesn't allow Google algorithms to find good sitelinks,
or Google doesn't think the sitelinks for my site are relevant for the user's query, Google won't show them. Simply adding the words--
Facebook and Twitter--on my blog and/or post, my traffic would improve dramatically.
Do I care when this is a portal for my random musings of life?DREAM...EXPLORE...AND DISCOVER! (stop by here to see what I've been creating)!
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Thank you,
my friend, for your helpful tips. I spent some time googling and learning today. Last time I played around with html and CSS codes dated back 6 or 7 years ago!
By now, it is obvious I did a change of blogskin. I just can't shake off my love for lavender/light green combination.
I will leave this on for a few days to see if it'd grow on me I change my mind...I need my green and lavender! How does it look? A few tweaks have been done to it so I hope it doesn't feel too out-of-place.
ONEMost obvious of all, a transformation from a 2-columns to a 3-columns skin. Nothing much new to this layout; it definitely shortens scrolling to the bottom and has a cleaner appeal.
TWOI selected 7 displayed posts to a page.
THREEThe spaces between the main posting column and the two side bars (left and right respectively) have been widen. It's easier on the eyes when there's a little space in between. Plus, I rearranged and eliminated some page elements on the side bars.
FOURColumn Borders have been added, for cosmetic effect, to define both sidebars better. This makes reading better with more defined space, I hope.
Well, nothing much more I think. It's really tough to maintain a minimal feel to this blog as I expand more inspiring links to input. Not sharing these links seems a little selfish, not sharing others' links seems to be a little under-appreciative of the knowledge I learnt from others.
I'm quite proud of this. I know you see nothing much of it but being the IT retard that I am, it's not easy since I have been out of touch with HTML or CSS codes for so long.
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True learning-learning that is permanent and useful,that leads to intelligent action and further learning, can arise only out of the experience, interest, and concerns of the learner.
John Holt
Real heroes are men who fall, fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they stayed true to their ideals, beliefs and commitments.
Actor Kevin Costner
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