I feel like I’m disappointing all my readers! I know you’re there because I have LJ Stats. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Since my last entry, I’ve been cracking the mystery of customizing WordPress to perfectly match my websites. I’ve been 100% successful. Of course, I’m not opting for a lot of the fancy optional functions–I just want a basic blog. But after a certain amount of beat-head-against-wall, I figured out the essential procedure:<\/p>\n
Download WordPress
\nSet blog to the “classic,” bare bones, minimal template
\nThrow just about everything in the template away and replace it with the styles and formatting from website<\/p>\n
Voila! I’m still building the links list in BLU Media Blog, but I spent about a day and half figuring out how to customize my author blog, Rewriting the Rules. Then I spent about 35 minutes doing the exact same thing to BLU Media Blog because now I’ve got it down. I’m very pleased.<\/p>\n
If you want to see how well I’ve matched the WordPress blogs to the websites, just go to the sites, take a quick look at their formatting, and then click on the blog link, which is at the right side of the top menu bar on each site.<\/p>\n
Inanna Arthen dot com<\/a> Before I customized BLU Media Blog, I finished the re-coding of By Light Unseen Media’s website, which is much more complicated than my author site. It’s so much more complicated, in fact, that I ended up with The Stylesheet From Hell and was grumbling to myself about why I had to be so gosh-darned creative. *wry smile* But By Light Unseen Media’s website is really in good shape now. I’ve added review quotes and updates. I’m still tweaking it, though! It was a lot<\/em> of work, because I was running all the pages through the W3C Validator tool to make sure they were fully xhtml-transitional compliant, and of course that caught every frellin’ little mistake I made, most of which the browsers didn’t care about, they parsed the pages anyway. But I wanted the code to be perfect–or why bother? I sure have learned the rules for xhtml, sheesh, not to mention improving my fluency in css.<\/p>\n But all that has been keeping me very busy the last few days. On Saturday, I caught up on a few chores I’d forgotten to do earlier in the week, and I did a Full Moon ritual before I went to bed. (The Full Moon was Sunday morning and I didn’t want to get up for it.) On Sunday, I went up to Nashua and ran errands because I needed bulk cat supplies, and I had a full agenda for Monday (yesterday, that is). On Monday, Dad finally came down to see the new computer that he helped pay for ( \ud83d\ude42 Thanks, Dad!) and visit, and we had Chinese food (which was a mistake \ud83d\ude41 ). Monday evening I had Parish Committee meeting. And my workouts are taking a bit more of my time now that I’ve ramped them up, especially the three Bowflex workouts.<\/p>\n Further update on the Account Cancelation Saga:<\/p>\n Yesterday, I went to the post office, and I finally spoke to the Postmistress (who, at 2:30 p.m., came to the counter bundled up in her coat, hat and scarf, I don’t know if she was coming or going!). All she knew was that my certified Priority Mail letter, which I mailed on Tuesday the 23rd, had arrived at the Leominster post office–or so Leominster said–at 4:47 a.m. Saturday morning. She didn’t have a clue where it could have been for four days. It would have gone down to Shrewsbury, Mass. and back out to Leominster (which is about eighteen miles from Pepperell). I<\/em> think someone at the Leominster post office has the warmest, most well-covered ass in the Commonwealth. *wry look* But it’s all moot now. The letter was finally delivered yesterday morning, according to the tracking information. The annoying thing is that it was mailed three days before I spoke to Ms. Billing Department, and I hope it doesn’t create any confusion or changes in the terms I arranged on the phone.<\/p>\n But I’m going to send another letter–plain old snail mail–and I’m shipping back the modem tomorrow. I’m giving my dad a ride to the airport and I come home through Nashua, going right by the drop-off locations for both UPS and Fedex. I think I’ll do UPS, though, because I have an account with them and I can get the package all ready to ship, pre-paid, here at home. All I have to do is drop it off at Staples, they scan it and give me a receipt. I found the paperwork from when I first signed up for DSL with Net1plus, that lists the equipment I was given, and I’m sending a copy of that to prove that I’m returning everything.<\/p>\n I called Verizon today and disconnected the second phone line, so that’s done.<\/p>\n I’ve gotten the first purchase order from Brodart for Krymsin Nocturnes!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I feel like I’m disappointing all my readers! I know you’re there because I have LJ Stats. \ud83d\ude42 Since my last entry, I’ve been cracking the mystery of customizing WordPress to perfectly match my websites. I’ve been 100% successful. Of … Continue reading
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