Nan asked me to explain how I got the heart icons to be my bullet images. You may have noticed in the address bar of your browser for this site, that it displays a small heart image. This is called a favicon. You can choose your own image to brand your site and make a favicon. The instructions are pretty well laid out on the following free site.

• Go to http://www.favicongenerator.com/
• Once you have your favicon in place, you will want to mess with your CSS. I’ve always wanted to say that. Heh.
• Most CSS or stylesheets are documented, so that layout, sidebars, footers, headers, etc., are separated from the section we are interested in, which is main, or entries.
• Trust me, you don’t want bullet images on your sidebar. In fact, I have set my sidebar bullets to not display. It’s tidier that way.
• Under main, or entries, look for these tags: <ul><li>
• Here’s the code from my site, yours will be slightly different:

#main .entryBox .entry ul,{
list-style:none;}

#main .entryBox .entry li {

list-style-image:url(images/favicon.ico);

padding: 2px;

}

• Back up the old code in case of emergency.
• Paste the bold code over your existing li code.
• I suggested to Ree that she use her boot image.
• Just upload your favicon.ico to your images folder and Bob’s your Uncle!
• With this code in place in your stylesheet, it will display your favicon as a bullet image.
• I’m not sure you can change the blogger favicon, but you can change the bullet styling on blogspot blogs. For blogspot bloggers, rename the image to whatever you like, with the filename .ico
• Now show witchypoo your goodies.

Considering that when I’m logged in to the psychic power network, I check my status in the queue before I go for a poop, and I plan meals as a relay event with Ass Burger Boy, in case I get a call mid cooking (NOTE: I have actually had to SPIT OUT a mouthful of food to answer a call when logged in), and considering that I am working from a laptop and a desktop computer in the same room, I am now considering taking on some more projects using said machines. I’m also considering that I am beginning to sound like a lawyer wannabe.

Project the first involves taking on an additional psychic network line. It involves a process of three evaluation readings, two of which I have already completed. The third will be Saturday. Keeping everything I have two of crossed. Knowing full well it could be painful in some cases.

Project the second is installing CommentLuv on my best blogging buddy’s blogspot blog. It’s a birthday present for her. The rest of you lazy buggers want me to do it for you, it’ll cost you forty bux. That is cheaper than a year’s hosting fees, so there. And you will still have time to get into the CommentLuv contest. Plus, I expect there will be more of these contests in future.

Project the third is updating my rotating image blogroll. This is where I need your input. If I am on your blogroll, I would like to provide a reciprocal link. Or, Lord help me, if you have changed your blog design and would like the new look reflected here, I am willing to do that too. For this project (and the second) you will need to contact me via my handy dandy contact form. That way I can organize a folder and check each off my list as it is done.

I had considered messing with my theme some more, but settled on getting a new feed icon and colour co-ordinating my comments and search box with the fall header. And the rollover of my navigation bar. If you click on the original theme in the footer, it’s practically unrecognizable from how it looks now. So I have been known to do the odd bit of CSS wrangling. The price is forty bux an hour. I do my own for free though. And Angella? She had NO IDEA what I really charge.

Could CSS wrangling be Project the Fourth?

Conversation this afternoon:

Ass Burger Boy: Are you going out somewhere?

witchypoo: No. Why?

ABB: You hosed yourself off.

witchypoo: I smelled like ass.

ABB: Oh.

Eloquence. I owns it.

In other news, I’ve been tweaking my theme again. The very pregnant Revka of RS Designs made me a signature for my posts. I have subscribed to their newsletter, and get the scoop when they offer free stuff. Free is my favourite price. If you subscribe, she might just make one for you, too!

She even offered to help me install it. I have issues where images in my posts all have borders, (unless they’re a:links) and the code would have given me a border to the signature, so I just put the signature as a background image in the CSS for the div that I always use at the foot of each post anyway. Works a treat.

You may now uncross your eyes.

I’ve been playing with my theme and kind of broke it a bit.

So if it looks wonky, come back in a sec, and it will be different.

I’m wishing I had some php skills right now.

I have a great WordPress plugin to share with you as soon as I get my header.php back where it ought to be.

Reading time is minimal. Why not vote?

UPDATE:

What we have now is a drop-down dynamically-populated navigation bar, courtesy of a WordPress Plugin which you can read about here
This page only shows the simple code for your pages, but I wanted to have my archives and categories out of the sidebar, so I picked up my code on this page. Last item on the page is the one I used.

I have to clean up the appearance of it. The font is too large for my liking and I may mess with background colours.

It was very simple to implement. The problem that I had was when I messed with my header code, and uploaded the unmodified file. Der. Have backups on your hard drive. You can always get your original theme file if you want to go back to scratch.

I’ve been wanting to clean up my sidebars for quite a while now, to prepare for the time that I put up advertising. Since nobody loves my donate button, I figure ads may be the way to go. Mama wants her hosting fees paid. And a decent camera. And a laptop.

Even in my shameless hollering for votes and/or Stumbles, I have not promoted the teeny, tiny donate button. And, I don’t plan to. I put it in so I could have a customer correct her order for purple plates easily.

Now go vote for me in the blogger’s choice awards. *Grinning at Teeni*
And show me your new navigation bars. Please.

UPDATE PLUS:

Ryan Hellyer has streamlined his code, so that you can choose your options right on his page,and now you only have to add one line of code. If you are using his plugin in a live site, he will link to you.
I’m going to change mine, because who doesn’t love one line of code?

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I spent the past two days tweaking my CSS, and I still have that incredibly huge header.

I want to move the photo to the upper left, and have the title to the right of the photo. Then 86 the whole “Hi! I’m witchypoo.” blurb. The header is way too big. It’s a bit tricky working with somebody else’s code. Way easier to do your own, because you know what the selectors mean to you. I’m going to upload WordPress to another server for testing purposes. You cannot mess with a live site when you are altering the layout of somebody else’s code.

I cannot emphasize enough, if you are using Internet Explorer 6, find yourself a CSS compliant browser, preferably Firefox. You will love me for that, send me your firstborn, etc. It is that good.

Okay, I see your eyes glazing over. Two things. Just admire my sidebars awhile if you will. I made a new blogroll from images, but haven’t found a way to caption them, so you will have to mouse over to get the blog title.

Second thing: There is a “Deck the Blogs” uncontest over at Memarie Lane so just click the button on my sidebar (the sidebar that does not show up if you are still clinging to the evil IE6) and it will take you right to the un-contest. All you have to do is send her a Christmas type of image, or post it on your blog. I went through all my images on my D drive before I realized I had already posted the perfect one right here. Fabulous prizes for this one!

Alright, enough out of me. You luddites with IE6, bite the bullet and get you some Firefox.

Shameless self-promotion:If I’m the Freakiest Blogger you read, show me some freaking love. Go on, vote for me. You know you wanna.