“N” is for Nice
I’ve always been fascinated by handwriting and typography, even from the time I was a little DIYer practicing my nicest D’nealian script in black crayon on my mother’s linoleum floor. (Which, by the way, is how I also learned early on the very sneaky DIY trick of using tulle scraps to remove crayon from linoleum without scratching the surface of the floor.)
And why I don’t completely freak out when my daughter practices her bold strokes of the pen in large purple block letters on a freshly painted wall. (BTW applying White-out over the pen-marks and spot painting the area really is the way to go.)
Perhaps also the reason that when I was loosing my sanity trying to get the Image-Headlines plugin to work for both the side bar and the post titles of one of my sites I didn’t quit. Even though my husband (sweet and supportive creature that he is) tried to assure me that the site looked “nice” I did not quit.
Somewhere in the wee hours of the morning I actually managed to get the plugin installed and working, and woke my darling husband (who had by that time abandoned me for the soft comforts of sleep– bless his deserting little heart) to see all the glory that is my sidebar.
“That’s it?” He yawned “Nice.” He nodded and muttered and then went back to bed.
Wait.
Isn’t “nice” what he said about the sidebar before I changed it?
Indeed it was the very same word. Nice. Obviously “nice” is one of those words that changes meaning depending on the gestures and context. It must mean ordinary common “nice” when said wide awake, but when preceded with a yawn I think it means “Wow Wendy that’s totally the most awesome sidebar ever, other sidebars would have to climb a 12 foot ladder just to kiss your sidebar’s fanny!”
I’m pretty sure about this.
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Drool on our site Quantumspindles.com, we (by “we”– which I imply Matt and I, but I really mean “I”) rebuilt it using wordpress (the same platform that this blog uses) an open source platform with lots of support and many cool thingies (called plugins) that make blogs perform great tricks (like making a super-sweet shopping cart, changing the appearance of the site, generating cool font graphics for titles, anti-comment-spam measures, creating picture galleries and automatically managing ads.)
The more I use wordpress, the more I like it. The support forums are excellent and there are lots of free tutorials, plugins, themes, and advice about using wordpress. Use the free hosting for non-commercial sites or install on any TLD that has mysql and apache (if you have hosting that provides cpanel with fantastico odds are that you can install WP.)
I have to admit that I was using the blogger.com/blogspot.com combination quite happily for quite a while. And while I like the interface and the ease of use (free is an awesome price), I too had problems with losing posts for various reasons, visitors experiencing slow loads, and sundry other small issues.
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