I don't end fiddling with template 
. I have again made changes by replacing my earlier smileys to new ones (courtesy: greasemonkey scripts), putting a list of recent comments to my sidebar and by using peek a boo comments.
I don't use too many smileys; but I thgt, hell!! no harm in having them in my template and I am satisfied with type of addition cause they are small.
I was looking for a list of recent comments to be displayed on my sidebar like I had seen in some wordpress templates. I found some neat hacks in blogfresh and followed it with a bit of customization for my hover menu bar. It was working.
However, when it was time to get a show/hide comments thing(so that one doesn't have to navigate away from the page to read the comments), I ended up spending a lot of time. Finally, i got my rescuer in the blogger help. Lolz, I didn't know it was called peek a boo comments. Its neat and the comments are displayed instantly without having to wait for another page to download.
Meanwhile, I switched from old blogger to blogger beta and I had a tough time. 1st, it took a lot of time to transfer my blogs. 2ndly, for a few minutes it seemed I had lost a few code changes I had made
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Thankfully, everythng is fine now. The beta one loads faster so it would tempt me to fiddle with the template further and check the previews fast
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Oye, I have changed the background and got dotted borders too (in case u didn't notice).
[update] 23/12/2006 : Modified the comments section. Added colored comment boxes(It's easy just define a class with ur choice of colors and and fix the comment codes within that class.)
tried lightbox. added a searchbox. have a pop-up comment box now.
. I have again made changes by replacing my earlier smileys to new ones (courtesy: greasemonkey scripts), putting a list of recent comments to my sidebar and by using peek a boo comments.I don't use too many smileys; but I thgt, hell!! no harm in having them in my template and I am satisfied with type of addition cause they are small.
I was looking for a list of recent comments to be displayed on my sidebar like I had seen in some wordpress templates. I found some neat hacks in blogfresh and followed it with a bit of customization for my hover menu bar. It was working.
However, when it was time to get a show/hide comments thing(so that one doesn't have to navigate away from the page to read the comments), I ended up spending a lot of time. Finally, i got my rescuer in the blogger help. Lolz, I didn't know it was called peek a boo comments. Its neat and the comments are displayed instantly without having to wait for another page to download.
Meanwhile, I switched from old blogger to blogger beta and I had a tough time. 1st, it took a lot of time to transfer my blogs. 2ndly, for a few minutes it seemed I had lost a few code changes I had made
.Thankfully, everythng is fine now. The beta one loads faster so it would tempt me to fiddle with the template further and check the previews fast
.Oye, I have changed the background and got dotted borders too (in case u didn't notice).
[update] 23/12/2006 : Modified the comments section. Added colored comment boxes(It's easy just define a class with ur choice of colors and and fix the comment codes within that class.)
tried lightbox. added a searchbox. have a pop-up comment box now.
Your blog's looking much more sexier now ;)
ReplyDeletehe he he .. Thanx :P
ReplyDeletegreat one jay ^^
ReplyDeleteyeah it's peek-a-boo :P
and it seems you made it right :) great
yeah thanx efendi.. i wanted to put a comment box here too it wasn't working and it was getting bulkier too.
ReplyDeleteTrue,a comment box would definately make the whole thing look much more awesome
ReplyDeleteoh I like the show & hide thing!
ReplyDeletehope the beta works for you. it has been a right pain the last week or so
keep on fiddling jay
Yup soon will work on it.. Deado.
ReplyDeletehe he he Lizze yeah wd keep fiddling.. but have forgotten for a while that blog is for writing stuff and not only designing
..umm need to put up a post:-?
posts??? minor details when it comes to blogging ;)
ReplyDelete:| Lizze
ReplyDeletegrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (wait for another earthquake :P)
lolz i feel addicted to modifying the codes.
Thought u'd never be a 'beta blogger', didn't ya? :-)
ReplyDeleteNice stuff, this peekaboo thingamajig. Keep at it, Fiddlo Diddlo...
Ah, and don't worry about no posts at the mo. With the hols on, u shd have enough time on ur hands to come up with smth - I mean, it's so cold now, it's just not possible for ur brain to overheat with the effort, is it? :-p
he he he trigger yeah been fiiddling with codes and prolly will comment today.
ReplyDeleteGreat work on the template. But don't bother with the custom comment box. The new blogger has some improved security settings in comments. They've switched the comments to a https, and I've tried everything I can to make the comments get posted, but it doesn't work. I've wasted 2 whole days on that lol.
ReplyDeleteyeah u r right, two days :-j.. i realised that early tho.. and thought popup comment thing is equallly gud doesn't let u go away from the page.
ReplyDeleteHandy.