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WordPress style adjustments

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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.

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So far blogging using WordPress is fantastic plus other blog and web generation comments

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A short analysis comparing a blog to an auto-generation system

WordPress is far better than I thought. It is making internet writing much more pleasant and easy. Last night I worked for hours doing some posts and I found my efficiency to be greatly increased. Normally it can take me 2 hours to publish one daily photo using my old (and very clumsy) system (see more below). WordPress cuts this time by about a factor of 10. This is fantastic.

My old system required images to be uploaded, links to be updated, writing to be done, pages to be validated, programs to be run, etc. All said, about 5-10 pages/files needed to be edited. Then several scripts and programs need to be run. Using a blog, most of these functions are done automatically. In most respects the blog is therefore much better. I can publish one or two photos very quickly now.

I might write up some detailed notes about my old system, which is centered around a tool called qwp (quick web pages). It does use a web page auto-generation tool that I created and it is fancy in some respects. It gives me a little more control but it costs 10 times the time and effort. It takes the html and combines any included files along with any embedded J-script into a template, and then translates it into all J-script. Then that J-script program is compiled into an executable program. The executable program is then run, and its output produces the web page. Other pre-translation steps can involve xslt and markdown translation phases, so included portions can be in xml, markdown, or html. So there are many levels of translation in my old system. My daily photo pictures for the last 2-3 years have been auto-generated using this system. For example, this photo page is auto-generated. It’s fancy, very hard to use, and the web pages don’t look good (- unless I use a better template). But here, WordPress is 10 times faster and easier, and the results look a lot better.

The ajax based front end is pretty fancy and is equivalent to using a simple Microsoft Word to create your writing. This writing is wysiwyg (what you see is what you get).

I am finally catching on to blogging. Many people have blogged for years.