Category Archive: Metablogging

May 15

New banner!

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My new(ish) blog has a new banner! I really liked the old banner, the one with the ice: but it does not fit with the themes I’m going for now.  Kept the text, though.  I like that text. Also, interestingly,  I found in my files a much nicer version of the old banner — it …

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May 14

Slipping backwards

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So, I just re-installed the theme I had before my blog broke.  That’s scary, because I don’t know if it’s the theme that broke my last blog.  I mean, it could have been anything — any of the sub-blogs installed under nested URLs within my blog, any of the plugins I downloaded, there’s a good …

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May 14

Standards for themes

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Here are my hard-and-fast requirements for a theme: It has to be able to display the whole post It has to have a right-aligned sidebar It has to be at least remotely customizable in color scheme It has to allow me to disable any dumb images, sliders, headers or background styles it inserts without asking …

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May 14

Oh My Glob

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I just took a look at my analytics for the first time since my site died, and I'm happy to report that my bounce rate is way down.

I feel like crap.  I’m sure it’s more complicated than this — the semester also just ended, and my little brother was home for a couple days — but I’m having some pretty strong flashbacks to the last time I wasn’t blogging, and the time before that, and the time before that.  Those times that …

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