March 23rd, 2008 | 12 Comments »

We are celebrating on this day of resurrection, an Easter(n) Miracle that Ree suggested in my comments on the demise of my machine. My monitor was bad. Never mind that I am squinting at a 15″ CRT monitor now. It just feels so good that I have all of my data. And hoo, boy! Did I have a time remembering passwords for various essential sites while trying to navigate on Ass Burger Boy’s keyboard-challenged laptop. From when he took it apart? They’re all written down now. All the hard restarts from trying to get it to work wreaked havoc on my system, and I have a lot of uninstalling and reinstalling to do. Don’t want to have to do a reformat, because there is always something I forget to back up when I do that. Those of you who barely can find the on button of your computer, ignore this. It will hurt your brain.

To celebrate, and stay in keeping with the theme is this bit of creativity that I made with my younger brother and sister out of papier mache about 25 years ago. Yes, that is most likely the last creative moment I had. Maybe. Anyway, Kelly tagged me for a creative meme, which was to produce something creative, and this is all I have actual evidence of. It’s supposed to be the Easter Bunny. Stop snickering. It has personality. Which is what the vet receptionist said about Handsome Henry.

My liddle sister treasured it, and kept it unharmed, lo, all these years. I’m glad she did, because even though two of her boys are older, Bonkers is the right age to love him some bunny that isn’t in a stew.

Peep of the Week is taking me a bit longer than usual, and I have elected to highlight some wicked good comments tomorrow.

Now you will see me returning to begging for votes and stumbles because that big honking ad is finally up, and I get paid for traffic to the site. I’m trying to insert links unobtrusively to my older posts that maybe ten people got to see, when I started blogging in November. Some of them aren’t half bad, and I have been using them as guest posts on other sites because I’m tricky like that. Yesterday, when I could barely type, Kailani of Island Life featured an oldie. She seems to be enjoying herself in Tahoe!

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January 21st, 2008 | 22 Comments »

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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