crickl's nest

Thu, Jul 6 2006

Getting geeky
Topic: Humor/memes

I won a battle with my computer recently. It can't win all the time, after all...

To put anything besides links in your side bars on this server, you have to open the ADVANCED editing process.

***INtimidating!!***

But, I wanted to put the CWO graphic and webring buttons on my sidebar badly enough that I figured it out. Now I'm going sidebar crazy....I don't think that is an actual mental condition, but there's always a first. When I was changing the look of this page, I even went for 2 sidebars.

Ambitious I am, Luke Skywalker!!!

Now I have learned how to center things in the sidebar, change the color of a prewritten font, and added my little brown family shadow picture there. (Yes, I changed the background to go with my picture...I can be obsessive that way.) As you can see, I added a Bible verse of the day to the left *taps pointer stick on left sidebar* and a Bible Gateway search engine to the right. *whacks the right sidebar*

If you will look, there is also a graphic and webring buttons for Christian Women Online *making circles with pointer stick*....(they let me join!)...and a Bloginality button below that. *taptap* And now that the left sidebar is so freakishly short, I will probably be adding more fun stuff over there....gotta have balance! Ooooh, maybe a Flickr graphic that has my pics all in a Hollywood Squares type box and each one takes a turn floating out at you. I've always wanted one of those!

If anyone has/knows of an easy EASY tutorial on doing pings and trackbacks, please leave me a note! That is my next goal as an up and coming webpage geek.

***My deepest apologies to anyone offended by the silliness of this post....

by crickl at 1:52 PM PDT
Updated: Thu, Jul 6 2006 10:12 PM PDT
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Fri, Jul 7 2006 - 4:40 PM PDT

Name: Ellen
Home Page: http://mzellen.blogspot.com

I used blogger for over a year and was pretty happy - I still have several little blogs that I maintain for "little life" reasons.

Blogger doesn't support trackbacks, but you can add Haloscan to manage your trackbacks (you can use it to store your coments also, but I wanted to have my comments on my own blog, not stored in a database somewhere else. They do let you use trackbacks only.

;-)

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Sat, Jul 8 2006 - 8:37 AM PDT

Name: eph2810
Home Page: http://eph2810.com

I like you 'geeky' side. And, not all posts have to be serious. I found that out on my own blog. Sometimes it is great to 'mix' things up a little.
I think you have done a wonderful job with redesigning your blog. I don't know too much about your blogging platform, so I can't give you advice on how to 'trackback'. WP has a special field for it, so it easy to do...
Have a blessed day in the Lord.

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Sat, Jul 8 2006 - 4:24 PM PDT

Name: crickl
Home Page: https://www.angelfire.com/art2/crickl/view/

Ellen...thanks for the info on Haloscan. I will check it out.

Iris...Oh, I was only apologizing as a silly ending. I was in a really silly mood that day. I love how you've redone your blog to include both the fun and the serious together! It's a good balance of your personality I think.

Anyone else with advice, it's not too late! =)

Christie

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Sat, Jul 8 2006 - 4:24 PM PDT

Name: crickl
Home Page: https://www.angelfire.com/art2/crickl/view/

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Sat, Jul 8 2006 - 4:25 PM PDT

Name: crickl
Home Page: https://www.angelfire.com/art2/crickl/view/

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Sun, Jul 9 2006 - 8:21 PM PDT

Name: Carol
Home Page: http://she-lives.typepad.com

Lookin' good, Crickl! I like the colors!

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Mon, Jul 10 2006 - 10:41 PM PDT

Name: crickl
Home Page: https://www.angelfire.com/art2/crickl/view/

Thank you Carol! I like it too.....=) So I think the revamping is done now.

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