Haven't Got Time for the Pain
Small problem in FragmentsLand, but a niggling one: people who use bloglines or other feedreaders to access Fragments think I haven't updated since the last rebuild (that happened while I was in St. Louis) on December 17. Apparently its a blog metabolic problem and not a bloglines prob. Here's what my servermaster Doug tells me I should do. I don't often dive under the hood, so I'm uncertain how to bring about these design changes.
"This goes back to something we talked about when we updated to MT 3.2. Your pages use CSS 1.0 and MT now uses CSS 2.0. You do need to update your templates but it will take a lot of work. Your pages tend to mix styles, some links are relative while others are absolute, and the style sheets are not consistent throughout the site. The ATOM feeds are exacting and any variation from style causes problems.I’d suggest a redesign of the site using the current 3.2 templates, which are available on the Sixpart web site."
I guess I just assumed that when upgrading MT versions that the stylesheets would have upgraded too. Do I need to cut and paste fresh stylesheet templates from somewhere and run the risk of screwing the front page to heck? I apologize if you're a bloglines subscriber; I might ought to put this little glitch on down the line of priorities just now. But if anybody has any suggestions how to implement the changes that Doug says I need, I'm open to suggestions.
Comments
I have no idea how to implement the changes Doug outlines...but I've been clicking through by hand ever since Bloglines stopped showing you back in December.
That just goes to show how much I love you, "Dad"! ;-)
Posted by: Lorianne | January 9, 2006 9:11 AM
No idea how to help. I'm dealing with computer demons too right now. If I lived close, I'd be stopping by with a bottle of red and some veg dip for you and your better half so we could lament our evil computers and the time they suck out of us trying to get them to do our bidding. Computers are kinda like having a three-year old on your desk. It's always something with them.
Posted by: Kim | January 9, 2006 1:12 PM
Same here...don't know how to help you out. I just recently caught up with the times and installed Bloglines over Christmas. When I saw your site wasn't updated, I just realized I'd need to keep checking in through Favorites. It's no big deal since you post daily early morning anyway. It's not like folks "need" Bloglines to keep up with when you post. Now if you posted sporatically every week or so, that'd be a different story.
Posted by: Deb | January 9, 2006 6:09 PM