The first round of tinkering is done as you can see. I've changed things up a bit to make the text more readable, and the page load faster (centering my previous background image was making the page load slower, that's fixed), I've recolored the text, and the links to make them pop some more too. Continued pointers would be helpful as I polish the new theme.
Comments:
Yensid:
My Fuji has both the LCD screen and what they call an EVF (Electronic View Finder, it works like a traditional one). I use the EVF because it requires less power to run, and is better with glares. On longer trips I take my laptop and check the card after I do some shooting to be sure the pictures are all right, so I don't have to plan another trip to retake bad shots. I can't take point and shoot pics, the camera is too sensitive, so I use the tripod all the time.
I was born in California! What a coincidence. Only I was there for a few months before my family moved, so I don't remember a thing. I've run into similar attitudes about Californians both in Texas here in West Virginia though. There are two things I don't like to tell people:
- I was born in California.
- From third to sixth grades I was home schooled.
I'm just vague when people ask me where I'm from, never specific. I sure won't tell people when I get out of this purgatory that I'm from West Virginia, that would be worse than the truth. As for home schooling, that's a whole other thing.
I don't get to travel a lot, so I've only ever been through a few states once or more (Texas[Lived there] Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky[our Rider truck when we were moving broke down there] Eastern Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and West Virginia[where I am now]). If there's worse than West Virginia out there, I haven't seen it yet.
I'm sure I'll come up with the right combo soon.
Magnus Lensherr
I hope I can make it really work, because I do want to have a nice clean cut, quick loading theme like a lot of other people here do.
It's hard for me to say if others where you are have taken to the practice, but the theory is a sound one(it works in the US). All the tones are put on the line for is to tell a machine that dialed the number it's no longer being used, the machine then updates it's database and doesn't bother calling it again. Human dialed numbers wouldn't be the same, but if your regulations are similar to what we've got here in the US, a short little "this number does not accept solicitation telephone calls" or "please regard this message as notice to remove this number from your calling list" type blurb toward the end of an outgoing message should hamper the human dialed ones. You'll have to check regulations and such in your area for more detailed assistance with reducing the number of telemarketing calls you get. That's a problem the world over.
You know, I was thinking the same thing when I typed out the description. It could be that the two are the one and same creature.
Oh yeah, it takes patience for origami. To do the copyright thing correctly, I want to have my own model to work from, not a picture I find online. I don't know anyone who's really into origami so I have to work with what I do myself.
Unfortunately no, I don't have a job.
It's not really hard to write up these posts, I take a lot of shortcuts, and I try to keep things simple and short in my replies. Sometimes I write more, sometimes less.
sikaurai
West Virginia is a wonderful place to come, especially in the fall and see beautiful colors on the hills. They look like they're on fire sometimes, but if you're coming for the people, don't waste your time. If you give John Denver's song (Take Me Home, Country Roads) a listen, you'll not hear a single word about people in it. Maybe there was good reason for that. While there are some people here who do fit the friendly category, my experience with the people has been more often than not on the other end. Maybe I'm the problem.
Breakfast Squid
I had a separate BG as a post background, but, I couldnt' get the text to be readable on top of it, so I had to make an executive decision on that, and the post BG went away. I haven't done any work on the colors yet, hopefully I'll get to it today or tomorrow.
scorchbird12:
It's not annoying to have to keep tweaking, but it is tedious.
Yes, he most certainly is.
That's kind of a long story, I'll try to condense it. As near as I recall, the girl (not even two years old I think) fell into an uncapped well in her own backyard or something like that, anyway she was down there for days, they had to dig down and get her out. I guess they finally got over that down there and moved on, thank goodness.
I haven't even started looking for that housing yet. *^_^*
beyblader
The former page background was a close up of the Mothman statue in Point Pleasant WV, taken during the day. My avatar is the same statue taken at night. The night photo was taken before they put a bright floodlight up and focused on the statue, so the camera's night mode made it come out looking gold, a really neat effect by accident, but impossible to duplicate.
