So I did suddenly decide that I had to change my blog template. The really stupid thing is that I went looking for something clean and basic, but without freaking san-serif fonts. (Ariel must diediedie!) I had installed this theme ages ago, but never used it because the default fonts were san-serif. Well, silly me! The author created a utility that makes it easy peasy to change the fonts and font sizes. Et voila, serifs! That was a lot easier than screwing around with the style sheet. I’ve had enough of that for the time being, thankyouverymuch.
Day: March 13, 2007
Spring Cleaning
After working on the new web pages yesterday, and coming up with something aesthetically different from the way the rest of the website looks, I decided to do a little revamping. So far, it’s just some minor tweaking of the style sheet for the regular web pages, and some new graphics for the main pages. I probably won’t touch the blog and gallery for awhile.
Mostly this was prompted by the fact that I have to move between two computers with different resolutions. It’s been bugging me for a long time now that the banner graphics were all fubarred when viewed at higher than 1024 x 768 screen resolution. Not enough to do anything about it, mind you, but still, it’s been nagging at me. So I went with vertical, 1000px high images that are fixed, so when you scroll, the text moves, not the graphics. One image for each main page, mostly taken from the Hemp Bound Journal, and cropped like nobody’s business.
Inevitable Errors
And, of course, now I see that I’ve got a big, fat typo in one of the family tree entries. Easily fixed, thankfully. Hrmf. I’m blaming DST, just because.
Genealogy Progress
I spent this evening trying to throw together something resembling a website for my grandma’s family’s genealogical information. It’s pretty sparse, as yet, and not all the sections are functional, but it’s progress of a sort.
I’m not entirely happy with the output of the main index file, but the individual pages are alright. I see that I’ll need to go in and edit some of the notes, because they exported unattached to their events. It might be nice to know which census is being referred to, for example. I’ve only been working with this program for a few days so far, and it’s got a bit of a learning curve, so I’m finding a few surprises along the way. All in all, I really like it, though. It isn’t pretty, but it’s flexible and powerful.
Also, letters. I’d like to get good scans of the originals and the envelopes at some point, but for now, all I have are kind of crappy photocopies, so I can only put up transcripts.
Alsotoo! Please to be meeting the actual, for real, totally legit, Hound of the Baskervilles!1!!!
red paper boat 