OK, the blog name problem is fixed. I also now have a nifty "My blogs" dropdown menu
in the blogger post window. Cool.
The style switcher is working. The style sheet switcher is from
an article on
A List Apart.
Now I have to break out the style sheets. There are three types (all this is from
the article):
Persistent
These style sheets are always enabled (they are always “on”) and are combined with the active style sheet. They can be used for shared rules common to every style sheet. To make a style sheet persistent, the rel attribute is set to “stylesheet” and no title attribute is set. You use this for layout and other things that don't vary.
To make the style sheet default.css persistent, the following link element would be included in the head:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css" />
For the stuff that will change, you have to set the initial settings. For that, you use
Preferred
These style sheets are enabled by default (they are “on” when the page is loaded). They can then be disabled if the user selects an alternate style sheet. To make a style sheet preferred, the rel attribute is set to “stylesheet” and the style sheet is named with the title attribute. Several preferred style sheets can be grouped together by giving them identical title attributes. These grouped style sheets are then all enabled and disabled together. If more than one group of preferred style sheets are declared, the first group takes precedence.
To make blue.css preferred, a title attribute is added, giving the default style a name.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="paul.css" title="blue standard" />
AlternateThese style sheets can be selected by the visitor as alternatives to the preferred style sheet. This allows the visitor to personalize a site and choose his or her favorite scheme. They can also be used for accessibility (e.g. ALA has a “friendly fonts” style sheet providing larger fonts).
To specify an alternate style sheet, the rel attribute is set to “alternate stylesheet” and the style sheet is named with a title attribute. As with preferred sheets, these style sheets can also be grouped together by giving them identical title attributes.
To make red.css into an alternate style sheet, the keyword “alternate” is added to the rel attribute.
<link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="red.css" title="red standard" />
Note that these relationships only apply to external style sheets which are included using the link element.
So my site layout is in default.css, the initial color scheme is in blue.css, and the alternate color scheme is in red.css. Neat.
OK, here we go. Step One: get stylesheet switcher back up.
Step Two: apply style to the div borders so it doesn't look so drab and the switcher effect is more pronounced.
Step Three: Make my code the template and post to my website
Step four: debug
Step five: post to main page.
Fun, fun, fun.
For some stupid reason Blogger has switched the titles of my blog sites so jamescollins.net is titled jamescollins.blogger.com and vica versa. Sigh.
I'm testing out various blog publishing tools, starting with
Blogger. I've created a
page on
Blogger to start out and familiarize myself with it. The next step is to create my own template and publish on
my web site. My first observation is that not having a spell checker sucks. I can always cut and paste into Word or whatever but I hate extra steps.
From Mitch Ratcliffe's BizBlog (http://www.ratcliffe.com/bizblog/) :
"The fix is in.
After touting a massive investment in electronic government services,
President Bush is letting his cronies kill the funding in Congress. So much for supporting the IT industry, and so much for IT industry support of Bush 2004.
Look, really, Bush comes out in November and makes a big deal about increasing the e-government budget for 2003 to $45 million. The Republicans then gut the budget to just $5 million, without a peep from the White House."