Blógünder Schlock
Posted January 15th, 2006 by Howard TaylerWell, the “Minor Technical Matter” remains unresolved, but as a stopgap measure I’ve found a way to stick summarized blog content here underneath Schlock Mercenary while providing links to full articles.
The site is still under construction, but it’s good enough for the girls I dance with. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Blógünder Schlock.
By all means, noodle around. Eventually my Sci-Fi/Fantasy library will be posted in here, complete with linked reviews. We’re working on automating the import of my old “Open Letter” content, and I don’t have an ETA on that, but eventually THAT will all be in here too.
January 15th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
I’m not one of the girls you dance with but it’s good enough for at least one of your fans too. Thanks for the ever expanding bits of Schlock entertainment you provide.
January 15th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Yeah. Hey, if it makes you happy…by all means.
I don’t mind clicking a few more links to hear you social commentary. It gives me a few
extra laughs.
And, if this is easier to use, that only means that you’ll be more inclined to use it, and I
get to hear more from my favorite webcartoonist.
January 15th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Spiffy. I wonder if there is a way to make the ellipse (that’s the [...] part) a link to the rest of the entry, as that was the first intuitive place I tried to find the rest of the comment. I didn’t have much trouble finding the link, but I’m computer literate. :)
This may not be an issue anyway, I’ve noted that Schlock readers tend to be a cut above the web.
January 15th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Dragonbane — I’ve noticed that too… I’m working on it, but it’s low on the list of things to do.
HIGH on the list of things to do… figure out why the UL and LI tags have such screwy formatting in the body.content and body.post boxes.
January 15th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Yup it’s good enough for me and I’d better be the only girl you’re dancing with buster!
January 15th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
I would prefer if the displayed entries were a little longer, but otherwise it looks alright.
January 15th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Ikkonoishi and Dragonbane… I think I can solve both problems at once. Apparently rather than using “the_excerpt()” I can use regular content tags — provided I remember to insert a “more” tag in the body of the content when I’m writing the post. As an added bonus, I’ll get a “more” link you can click on.
If you check out the archive pages (click on January 2006 there on the right) you’ll see where the new cuts ended up.
I still haven’t figured out the CSS for the LI tags, though. *sigh*.
–Howard
January 16th, 2006 at 2:25 am
More changes… Fun Fun Fun… Anyway….
The front page looks a little…. Weird… With all that Times New Roman and Default colours for the middle… Can I recommend the following CSS to make it look better?
(Love using the Live CSS editor, Color Picker, and watching as it because cleaner on the eyes)
div.post {font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif;}
div.post h2.title {font-size: x-large }
div.post h2.title a:link {color: #CB2222; text-decoration: none;}
div.post h2.title a:visited {color: #CB2222; text-decoration: none;}
div.post h2.title a:hover {color: #FB0101; text-decoration: underline;}
div.post a:link {color: #233C88; text-decoration: none;}
div.post a:visited {color: #233C88; text-decoration: none;}
div.post a:hover {color: #339999; text-decoration: underline;}
Arial-Like font, Title is x-Large, non-underlined, and a slightly darker red, which turns fuly red (picked from the Comic title) and underlines on hover.
Links are the colour of Kevin’s shirt (it looked good), and will underline and go the colour of the background of the Date Box title….
as for this mentioning of the CSS for the LI tags… Is that LI’s on the main page? Because I havnt seen any… If you want, I can chuck it into my pages and have a look…. Always the meddling type :P
January 16th, 2006 at 7:48 am
Okay, THAT was useful. Thank you, it stopped the bleeding.
Would you like to continue helping on the CSS front? There are numerous tweaks I’d like to make. I’ll send you the existing CSS files from both the Blógünder Schlock site and Schlock Mercenary if you’d like to look at them and see what’s going on.
Short List of tweaks:
The long list of tweaks involves things like WordPress plugins and php loops. Sandra has informed me that I’m supposed to be cartooning now, and need to quit playing with this stuff.
–Howard
January 16th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
What is the RSS feed URL for this site?
January 16th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Something you might want to take care of is the &umml; in the email title. It doesn’t convert properly in all email clients. I’m fairly certain that SquirrelMail can handle it, but I know that GMail can’t.
Minor fix, but it makes it more professional-looking, you know?
January 16th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
FaxCelestis — I’ve looked into that, and can’t figure out where to make the change. I think it may be a “core WP code” thing, and I’m not comfortable touching that.
–Howard
January 17th, 2006 at 3:48 am
Well, glad to see you adopted my Front Page CSS…
A few things you mentioned, and each appears to be the fault of how this page is generated or CSS is layed out…
- Each comment on here is a LI tag itself… by using “li li {}” you can force code into the inner LI tags. But im still trying to work out how to make it Inherit… Seems to be grabbing its code from somewhere it shouldnt…
- That would be IE’s perfect ability to Screw Up CSS. I cant test that quite as easy… will try grabbing the page and tweaking it .
- And again, IE….
- That will just mean doing reverse maths on the BS CSS, and re-writing for the SM page. Ill have a look into it.
Its all down to the CSS. Give the page a Blank CSS for a moment and watch it become nothing…. Just how pages should be made…
Anyway, Ill have a look into this CSS at some point I have spare and really feel like CSS… Feel like games this moment :D