Technophobia

Thursday, January 20, 2005

I found a tip for adding random quotes in EE. From the comments on that post it looks like it’s easily modified to handle images - so at some point I’ll work on adding the kids’ pics.

I’m still trying to figure out why my show/hide code on the Reciproll and Blogs for Bush blogrolls won’t work. Assistance welcome.

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

I’m not a fan of Pay Pal and I’ve heard enough horror stories from folks who’ve been screwed over by them to reinforce my distrust. So I choose not to use their services if I have another option when I’m shopping online. Except that I just tried to place an order for coffee from my local coffee lady and Pay Pal lost my order because of some technical glitch. I’m unable to pay with my credit card straight up because it’s “registered” with Pay Pal, so in order to buy anything from this lady through her website, I have no choice but to use Pay Pal. And it’s broken.

So frustrating.

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

I think I’ve gotten the border thing fixed. Now on to the sidebar…

Tell me if something still doesn’t look right - except for the sidebar.

LATER: Sidebar fine in Netscape, wonked in IE. *sigh* But I’m making progress, I suppose.

LATERER: Looking at the page here at home, things look fine in both Firefox and IE. Then I changed the text size in the IE window from medium to small and the sidebar dropped. Odd, but it explains what I’m seeing at work since I have it set for the smaller text size. So I’m done messing with that.

Now it’s on to the smilies.

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

I’ve moved this post to the top of the page for the evening in the hopes that someone might take the bait be willing to assist.

OK, I’m having minor technical problems with the blog, so if anyone feels inclined to help here’s what I need:

1. Fix the border
2. Fix the sidebar
3. Fix the emoticons - I updated the emoticons.php file with my old smilies, but I’m getting error messages.

I think I just need fresh eyes to pore over the code I’ve got to see what I’m no longer able to catch by way of errors. I’ve looked and looked and I just don’t see the problems.

Monday, January 10, 2005

Emoticons not working at the moment. 

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OK, so you IE users, no one noticed that the sidebar was wonky this weekend? Since I use Firefox at home, I never knew that my tweaking over the weekend caused the sidebar to drop. Geeks - any idea?

Friday, January 07, 2005

I don’t know why the sidebar is showing below the posts. I’m trying to add some of the old sidebar stuff and I’m apparently doing something close to right since it’s there but the sidebar is wonked. My apologies for the mess.

Meanwhile, I think the trackback post is working again? Anyone want to test that?

Thursday, January 06, 2005

Someone try to trackback. I think I may have fixed the problem for now.

UPDATED: Jay suggested that somehow the post title has hosed the trackback function on this post only. This is to redo the post title to see if it resets the permalink that’s now not working.

Someone want to try the trackback for this again? I think it’s good now.

Wait, not working. I think I have to actually change the title wholesale.

OK, permalink works.

It’s a good thing I moved the blog already - the old site is hosed again. Sheesh.