How the heck do you get the MyWebLog, Recent Readers widget to show more than one column of visitors? I can always see a complicated matter clearly but the simplest things elude me (does that make me a genius?).

Any info would be of great help.

If you don’t want to “permanently blind” using the “view source” try this. It’s a whole lot easier.

If your not using Firefox, you’re going to need it. If you have a thing against Firefox then just think of it as the ultimate tool for working your site and use it just for that. Now whether you’re using it or you installed it, go grab the “Web Developer” extension off the Mozilla Add-Ons site and install into FF and no more crawling over source code.

Web Developer has a ton of tolls for you to use but in the toolbar you’ll see a CSS button and from the drop down menu you’ll find “Edit CSS” which throws a “sidebar” on the bottom of your browser. This will allow you to manipulate your Style.css on the fly and you can see the results on your site in real time. Make a change and see the results (no changes are permanent…close the sidebar and everything’s back to normal). Once you get your site the way you want it to look, then you can hit the save button and it will save the modified Style.css on your computer and you can then upload into your theme file via FTP. Done!

The combination of FF and the Web Developer extension is amazingly powerful. I think you’ll like it.

Hope this saves your sight.

Chris, thanks for positive feedback. At times during my redesign I felt as if I was talking to myself. I’m very happy to hear that people have noticed. Also, I did remove the nofollow setting. That’s for the recognition back at your site. I’ll stop by in a bit and check out the post.

David Paul, thanks for the do-follow recognition. I’ll stop by and check out your post as well.

http://www.davidpaulrobinson.com/2007/03/29/more-do-follow-bloggers/

Cheers!

Great job with the site. Every time I stop you’ve made quite a few changes. I especially like how you’ve integrated the ads so far. Very subtle and definitely flowing with the rest of the layout.

I noticed that you’ve also removed the NoFollow attribute from your site as well. I’ve just now tagged you in a meme in support of the IFollow movement on my site, you can check it out at the following URL:

http://www.fuzzyfuture.com/traffic/i-follow-the-following-followup-to-the-ifollow-movement/

If you want to participate all the info is there. At the least, I hope your site at least gets some recognition for taking the plunge

Best of luck when you start your own custom template! It’s a big job, but I have faith that you’ll do a great job.

I hope you have a great weekend.

Anyway, I have done a small amount of “real” customization. Most of the things I’ve done thus far have been mostly removing sections and adding a few minor things here and there and making slight modifications to the CSS stylesheet. Most customizations have been very straight forward and simple.

Yes, I have been thinking of doing a theme from scratch and that is what I plan to start next week. I have one more post to do regarding my last bit of changes to this site and then I’ll move on to the theme from scratch. I created a web site from my kid’s Karate instructor (all static pages). I plan to port it to WordPress and will do so with a theme from scratch. I’ll be blogging about how I do it here. I think you might find it interesting.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.