Wipe Your Feet
As you can see, we have new digs. Told you I was busy.
Work is still ongoing and, inevitably, there will be things to tidy or hammer into shape. Or at least cover with a rug. If you spot anything scandalously up-buggered, do let me know. I’ll add it to the enormous list.
While I faff and tinker, and grumble about plug-ins, by all means pass the time by poking through the Reheated series.
Do make yourselves at home. And oh yes, open thread.
Awww. Can you feel the love?
The admonishment, in the masthead! to “play nicely, use coasters” is a microaggression.
So my experiment above with blockquote, italics, and hyperlinks was 2/3 successful. 66%. That’s a passing ‘D’, yes?
“The ‘Frogger’ reboot is just strange.”
“Strange? Looks pretty orthodox to me.”
Looks fancy. 🙂
*eats cake*
Well, web design isn’t my area, so it’s been an… interesting week.
There may have been some shouting and one or two vases may have been shattered.
[ Orders box of fragile vases. ]
Very nice and very wise.
Typepad was a cosy cul-de-sac of blogging, but there’s been no significant development there for years. I don’t think they’re even accepting new customers, which speaks volumes. And the downtime in October – six days – and the bizarrely inadequate response to it, largely via Twitter – was just farcical. At one point, I had 14 Help Tickets for errors open simultaneously. There’s still been no apology and I’m not even sure some of the people there realise just how much goodwill they burned through in one week.
Try Gravitar. Fairly quick and painless.
Yeah, no, another “sign up so we can track your every move” mess. Besides, it was more fun to muck with changing the colors on the old site.
Try to use the ‘pre’ tags for quoting comments.
Trying to follow the rules at the new joint. One thing I have noticed is that only David’s quoted comments show up in the new ‘pre’ style. None of the other commenter’s quotes show up that way, and since they aren’t using italics now, there is no differentiation on my screen between a quoted comment and a reply to that comment. I’m going on deja vous to know what I just read was a quote. Using (old) Firefox on Windows 7 on my old laptop, if that makes any difference.
In which case, go with whatever works. Better that the quotes are differentiated than not.
Odd, my comment never showed up. Maybe if I let it save my info in the browser it will post the comment.
In which case, go with whatever works.
Testing the italics.
And I apologize – I see my comment and a reply. I need more coffee, I think.
Typepad was a cosy cul-de-sac of blogging, but there’s been no significant development there for years. I don’t think they’re even accepting new customers, which speaks volumes.
Wikipedia confirms: “Typepad is no longer accepting new signups. Instead the company refers new users to Bluehost, another web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group.”
And hence only bare-minimum support for Typepad customers.
One thing I have noticed is that only David’s quoted comments show up in the new ‘pre’ style. None of the other commenter’s quotes show up that way, and since they aren’t using italics now, there is no differentiation on my screen between a quoted comment and a reply to that comment.
And there is no Preview button to see how it will display. 🙁
Let’s see what happens if I use italics with the “pre” style….
Interesting – now the new blog comments stop at David’s mention of web design and vase-shattering, no matter which browser I use (Brave, Waterfox, Firefox). Maybe WordPress doesn’t update immediately? I know there were more comments!
I did notice upthread that commenter Chris Allen managed to get the ‘pre’ tag working – how did you do it??
Carriage returns don’t show up in the posted comment, so I guess I need to find the html tag for that too, so I don’t post a wall of text.
Time to step away from the blog for a bit, let things settle out. Get more coffee, maybe bake that chocolate cake I’ve been meaning to make. I’ll bring some here if it turns out well, although even if it doesn’t, it can’t be worse than those pickled “eggs”…
Well for the record, I’m just happy to be here.
This will take a bit of getting used to.
Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
You should try sitting where I am, matey.
Heh, I can imagine.
Is there a delay in posting? Can’t see my comment.
For the ‘pre’ tags to work, as mentioned upthread, you may need to log in to WordPress.
Congratulations!
And regarding comp!aunts from the heathens, here’s how to organize them:
Priority 5 (lowest) – anything filed by wtp, pst, ccsci, nemo, me, etc. etc. Those bums have to hang here, no other place will have us.
Priority 4: fires in the alley (yes there’s still an alley. This is a class joint) No worries, street is fireproof.
Priority 3: gripes about bar snacks and food. Workaround is available; Patrons bring their own. (There’s a small corkage fee)
Priority 2: mistreatment by henchlesbians: this is a feature, dude, not a bug. Rejected. Next time: rejected with extreme prejudice.
Priority 1: complaints about content. “No refunds. Credit note only.” ( which I was expecting to see in the header, frankly. SMH in sorrow.)
This scheme will save David countless hours.
OooOooo (admires new place, checks out the newly restuffed barstools) swanky!
Going make good use of your Amazon portal when Christmas shopping next week to replenish your swankiness fund.
Well, web design isn’t my area…
Well, I love what you’ve done to the place. Who’s your decorator?
No Preview button. Let’s see how this displays without resizing:
Doesn’t display at all. Another bug, David.
Er, don’t go inflicting wear on the upholstery. Keep your buttocks very still.
Bless you, madam. May you see trees from your workplace window.
During the move, I rediscovered this. How to pronounce Betelgeuse.
During the move, I rediscovered this. How to pronounce Betelgeuse.
And scrolling down the comments, I found this:
And I’m not sure why Picard’s Romulan housekeeper, an alien from Romulus, has a fairly heavy Oirish accent. (At times, she seems inches away from saying, “Top ‘o the morning’, admiral.”)
Reminiscent of recent complaints about Hobbits in The Rings of Power.
Let’s see what happens with a thumbnail-sized image:
No, even very small images do not post. [ Looks significantly at David. ]
I have a real aversion to word walls.
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Will the proprietor mind if I do this?
anything filed by wtp, pst, ccsci, nemo, me, etc. etc. Those bums have to hang here, no other place will have us.
What’s that smell? It’s the new upholstery, right?
Right?
On an iPad in portrait the “Continue reading” overwrites the “Reading time” and “Written by” fields, making them all unreadable; in landscape it’s fine
On an iPad in portrait the “Continue reading” overwrites the “Reading time” and “Written by” fields, making them all unreadable; in landscape it’s fine
I previously saw the same thing a while ago but it’s gone now. And thus this excuse to use the ‘pre’ tag…
For the ‘pre’ tags to work, as mentioned upthread, you may need to log in to WordPress.
AHA! As a Philistine who avoids logging in to things where at all possible, that explains why I can’t get the new formatting to work.
Trying the some html code to create a blank line…we’ll see how that works. Think I saw someone upthread mention the p tag.
The move to the new blog happened just in time – Typepad has borked the closed, multi-page comment threads. Only the first 101 show up now, at the Typepad site. But I checked over here, and the comments are there, which makes me happy. Will the blogroll be showing up here sometime? I used to hit some of those links after checking this blog – there was a nice assortment of reading to be found.
I have a real aversion to walls of sound.
If we have to log in to WordPress to get pre and some of the other tags to work, how do we do that? I don’t see a link here, and I don’t know if I have an account with WordPress anyway.
And given a choice, I wouldn’t want to have to log in to WordPress.
“If we have to log in to WordPress to get pre and some of the other tags to work, how do we do that?”
You must be logged into something as you have an avatar appearing.
That’s probably gravatar. That avatar is also several years old. I think August of 2016 although it may be August 2017.
The background is Echo Lake, although I stayed on traditional trails.
Now let’s see if links work. 🙂
If we have to log in to WordPress to get pre and some of the other tags to work, how do we do that?
Ted – if you scroll down past the comment box to the black bar underneath, it says Meta on the left, and under it some links, one of which is Register and under that Log in.
David said it was ok to use italics if the “pre” formatting doesn’t work (because we can’t or haven’t logged in), just so there is some differentiation between quoted text and reply. So far I have gotten the i, b, and p tags to work, and use the with the p tag to make a blank line, as an un-logged-in commenter. WTP had a hyperlink in one of his comments, so I think the a href tag works the same here, also. But pst has had trouble inserting a picture, while David posted the pickled eggs just fine, so that one may also be related to whether you are logged in or not.
Lovely work, David.
Here’s to another sixteen years.
if you scroll down past the comment box to the black bar underneath, it says Meta on the left, and under it some links, one of which is Register and under that Log in.
Testing the pre function with a logged in account.
Didn’t work. But the comment did post immediately this time.
I’m not convinced the RSS feed works correctly but I will not raise any alarm until I am sure the does NOT work correctly.
The new site does render quite quickly, which is a pleasant thing.
Sigh.
“I’m not convinced the RSS feed works correctly but I will not raise any alarm until I am sure the does NOT work correctly.” should have been…
“I’m not convinced the RSS feed works correctly but I will not raise any alarm until I am sure the RSS feed does NOT work correctly.”
Some type of preview would be nice.
Morning.
Working on it, but remember, this is all new to me too. Preview should be a basic option but I don’t see anything in the settings. Maybe there’s a plug-in I need to install. I’m currently using the forums and consulting the WordPress hivemind. We’ll see if anyone can shed light.
When I have time. Though I was never sure that it got much use.
italics if the “pre” formatting doesn’t work
italics if the “pre” formatting doesn’t work (blockquote}
italics if the “pre” formatting doesn’t work (strong)
italics if the “pre” formatting doesn’t work (em)
Testing, obvs.