Blogickal is Back
Well, after several weeks of trial and error as I wandered blindly through the world of blog design and programming, Blogickal is back online. Things are not quite the way I wanted them to be - as it turns out bunches of books and websites do not a programmer make - but I stubbornly refused to go backward.
I don't feel too bad about not being able to grasp the complexities of MT 4's syntax since plenty of bona fide programmers don't like working with it either. In the end I cobbled together the code for my new design by tinkering with Blogickal's old code. But I feel pretty silly that I spent days pulling my hair out in frustration over mysteriously reappearing CSS only to realize that the difference between "-" and "_" was keeping the site from rendering.
What you see is at least a close approximation of what I wanted within the limits of what I could do without paying someone else lots of money to build a new blog for me. There are a few oddities I'm still trying to figure out how to fix and I'm sure there will be some tweaking as I discover bits of code that I missed, so please be patient with me. I've missed a lot in the last few weeks of being offline and I was eager to get back to blogging.
It's good to be back. Thanks for missing me!
Posted by Angela-Eloise at 2:02 PM
Comments
welcome back:)
Posted by: ambermoggie | August 20, 2008 2:52 PM
Welcome back! I love the new look, its so "clean"
Posted by: Mama Kelly | August 20, 2008 8:27 PM
Yay! You're back!
Posted by: Thalia | August 21, 2008 1:01 AM
Woot! Yay for the revamped and returned Blogickal!
(And I *love* the new header.)
Posted by: Evn | August 21, 2008 7:36 AM
Thanks for the well wishes!
Glad you like the new design. It took me a while to finally get to this point, but I'm happy with it. I now have an even greater respect for people who can write code because it is damn hard and crazy making. I'm sure I have the messiest code in the blogosphere, which is very difficult for me, the OCD clean-freak perfectionist, to accept. Maybe it's a practice in Zen or something. "Accept your messy code and be one with the universe." Anyway, please feel free to let me know if you discover anything that is broken.
Posted by: Angela-Eloise | August 21, 2008 8:53 AM
love the new design! Did you do it yourself?
Posted by: ketzirah carly | August 22, 2008 9:56 AM
Thanks Carly!
Yes, I did the design myself. Some of the graphics are taken (the footer) or adapted (glowing title text) from a site I had designed but never launched. I found a fun font that is all swirly thingies and that's what I used to make the red and blue elements. I felt I wanted some hint of the old design, so I threw in some stars.
I was limited by my ability to work with code as far as what I could render with CSS, so there are some things I wanted to do with the overall page layout that I couldn't figure out how to do. But the end result is close to what I wanted.
Posted by: Angela-Eloise | August 23, 2008 10:40 AM