Skip to main content

The Let Down That is Blogger Beta

Well it’s not terrible, but neither is it all that I’d hoped and dreamed either. The biggest disappointment is the template modification. They promised a new drag and drop format, which seemed perfect for someone like me (a total gonad when it comes to HTML). Problem is that that’s all it is: drag and drop. I can move my bio to the bottom of the page (whoop!), or swap the position of my links with the position of my archive (yowzah!), but I can’t change the graphic in my header or even frig around with column width. I’m gonna have to go ahead and learn something if I want to pretty up this site. Stupid Blogger, forcing me to learn stuff.
Labels:

Comments

Dave said…
But I do like the addition of labels.
9:48 pm
Dave said…
And the drop down menu for the archive.
9:49 pm
Dave said…
But why they couldn't have made a drop down menu for the archive is beyond me.
9:49 pm
Dave said…
Fuckers
9:50 pm
Anonymous said…
Blogger Beta has apparently made you a slutty comment whore.

Oh yeah:

They're brothers, and they're cops...
11:52 pm
Jay said…
Where is this mysterious beta?
8:22 am
Anonymous said…
Baby...I really don't like the new blog format. What happened to the link to wasted time? Why is your profile picture so far down the page. Yuck.
I love you, though.
10:39 am
Dave said…
Jay: Now that I've migrated over, I forget where the link was. I think it showed up on my dashboard, but it's not there now cause I've already switched over. Be warned though of the following perils:
- it 'upgrades' your template, which will axe any customization you've done in the past (except for links)
- you will not be able to comment on non-beta blogger sites in the normal way. Rather than choosing your Blogger identity, you'll have to choose Other
That said, there are some perks. Damned if I could name them, though.

Sarah: It's actually the YouTube links that have pushed my sidebar to the bottom. But yeah, I forgot I had to replace the Wasted Time and Armada links after the template update. And awwwww, I love YOU!
12:07 pm
Rebecca said…
Good to know - I've been offered the opportunity to go to Word Press, and I may go with that instead of playing around with Blogger Beta (Jorge, you may now commence with the cheering)
5:48 pm
Rebecca said…
And you could always have a drop down menu for the archives. You just had to play with the code a bit.
5:48 pm
Anonymous said…
Dave playing with code is like Dave playing with himself.

He ends up making a mess after about 2 minutes of fiddling.
10:19 pm
Anonymous said…
Oh, and YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH REBECCA!
10:19 pm
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Discuss Amongst Yourselves - January 30th, 2006

In case you don’t read my comments (and if not, you’re nuts cause that’s where all the good stuff is), Courtney has just declared herself movie illiterate. So, if you had to recommend five essential movies that everyone should see, what would they be? Let me stress: only five. For those of you with break-the-rules tendencies (like--I dunno--just picking a name out of the air... Jorge ?), your comment gets chucked out. Give’r.
29 comments
Read more

A complex phrase, in which the various parts are enchained

“Barry,” my cousin Mike said, “I think it’s time.” It was clear that my brother didn’t feel the same way, but he only shrugged, which Mike took as agreement. “Dave,” he said, giving the words as much gravity as he could muster, “Go get the dictionary.” I was nine years old, and a tag-along. I’d walked in on my brother telling a story about how—during school that morning—a girl he knew got her period in the middle of French class. And I laughed like the dickens. And then they called me on it. After I’d lugged the dictionary down from the spare room, Mike told me to look up the word period and read out the definition. “The end of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action?” “Keep going,” he said. “The full pause with which a sentence closes?” “Not that.” “An interval of geologic—“ “Gimme that!” He yanked the book towards him, read down the page, and pointed me towards the definition he’d found. Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from pu...
19 comments
Read more