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Amanda Haase (username arhgriffin)
I am an econometrics graduate student at LSE in London.
Ryan Giordano is an education Peace Corps volunteer in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan. He teaches English and math at Kazakh middle school number three, as well as doing the usual sort of secondary projects that volunteers engage in.
The opinions expressed in this are the writer's only and not necessarily those of the Peace Corps.
I'm planning on moving my old posts to the blogger format from the old blog program that I wrote myself. Mostly, it's so that people can post comments. Neal advised me that if I didn't know what I was doing - and I don't - then I could easily open up security holes if I tried to add comment-writing functionality to my bloggin software.
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I finally got this online today. Go google! It was even painless to make a template that looked like (actually, better than) my old page.
The whole reason for this was to let people post comments. So post comments, please.
Very cool Mr. Giordano! I seem to remember suggesting this avenue some time ago as it is the same service that I use and it is free. There are some other blog services with more functionality (like typepad at: http://www.typepad.com/) or Manila, but free is nice. Glad to hear that you are doing well.
Btw, it's weird that your posts don't begin until after your left-hand 'links' column. There appears to be an html formatting problem with your template.
The sidebar problem is a CSS problem that was in the google-recommended template that I based my template off of. They specify the widths of the content and sidebar as absolute pixels, and then rely on floating to get the layout right. If your web browser window is too narrow, then it floats the content to the bottom.
If you know how to do this better, oh, please tell me. I tried for some time to get the sidebar to stay the same width and autosize the content, but it always floats it to the bottom when you do that.
I don't know about you, but I think I need a document more user friendly than the CSS spec sheet.
Don't float the sidebar and content area; make the sidebar an absolutely poitioned box and use relative positioning for the content; this will make the content box fill just what's left over after drawing the sidebar.
#sidebar {
position: relative;
width: 20em; /* Arbitrary value; use whatever you prefer*/
}
# content {
position: relative;
margin-left: 20em;
}
Outstanding, thanks Matt! This has been bugging me for weeks now, though my problem is a bit different than Ryan's. Mine only repositioned itself if the window was too small. Now I just need to figure out how to give the content some borders so it doesn't crowd all the way to each edge.
Ryan, the next 'feature' you need to add is already in Blogger, you just need to add the RSS feed. It's in 'settings/site feed' and will let us know when you have made new posts!
Ok, I took Matt's suggestion (thank you, Matt) and Randall, I added an RSS feed, both of which are uploading now, untested, thanks to slow internet connection and Bed Time.
Still don't know why the archives don't work. But I'm tired.
Ok, basically, Matt's idea didn't work. Or I didn't understand what he meant. If any of you want to do the work for me, the template file is at www.thegio.net/Mybloggertemplate.html . In the meantime, sorry kids, I'm going to bed.
Ok, I read what Matt said and not what he wrote, and did
sidebar { position: absolute ...
after which things looked better. It still gets funky when you make the window small, but seriously, I have to go to bed.
Btw, the rss feed is
http://www.thegio.net/kazakhstan/atom.xml
um... its still broken for me... it puts the bar with the links and other posts and various places (ie the middle of the page on top of text so i cant read it). perhaps you are already aware of this problem. i cant tell because most of the replies to this post are greek to me.
It doesn't appear to be fixed as I still get the same thing that Tasha does. The sidebar is right in the middle of the page over the content. I know this is more work than you had intended, but html is a bit over my head (the link you provided doesn't give me anything I can work with). You may want to consider a different blogger template altogether, although like I said in the comments to another post, always save your changes as a text file so you can undo any changes you don't like. If you want to e-mail me your login info, I have some web savvy friends that could take a look at it.
Ryan, if you copy your template into a text file and send it to me in an e-mail as an attachement, I will have it fixed for you. Send it to me at randallph@gmail.com.
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