Here are a few notes on Word press.
Some word press style tweaks
I have been tweaking with Word press and find that it is reasonably flexible in being able to do the kinds of renderings that one wants to do. I am doing this post in html just to see how it works. This is my first html post. I am sure that I'm still an amateur at a lot of this stuff - there are really a lot of nice looking blogs out there.
I created a few styles in the style sheet to accommodate things that I would like to do. The style sheet for this theme is called style.css. You take it off of the server and edit it to make your changes. I pasted in some of my personal styles that I use often.
This is not the first time I have tweaked styles. It seems that I have spent a good part of my life trying to get those CSS styles just right.
Indented text. I want to have the ability to indent and to highlight stuff.
Times font. It takes a bit of tweaking to get this size of the "times" font right. I want to be able to render times, since this is such a standard font.
And here is an ordinary paragraph.
- And this is a bullet item. A fish bullet should show.
- It took me a ton of time to try to get this fish icon working. And it's not quite right yet. Maybe it says that I prefer fish to bullets.
- The editor that word press provides is nice and has spoiled me a bit. It is very easy to use. On the contrary, doing the "raw html", as in this post, not only puts hair on your chest, takes a lot longer, but also greatly increases the likelihood of making errors.
And here we are back out of the dotted outline section. This entry is a lot of gibberish, but I am testing some of these new styles. |
About the greatest test in life is to create a table. An even greater test is to try to do it in word press. |
Well I'm not going to mess with the table styles. It looks pretty complicated. |
If I get bold I might mess with the hover characteristics of the table, but not now. |
Well this post took well over an hour (more like two or three). There are times when it's probably worth the trouble. And it's good to know that it can be done even though you always do not want to take the time.
Well I had to update this post a number of times. I made really a lot of errors. I had an immense amount of trouble. It's never as easy as it looks.
update 9 on Dec. 26.
