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Sunday, August 8, 2010

This is a log of changes made; it perhaps will occur that I have to come back and edit this page somewhere in the future.

8/8/10

Total rehaul of the blog skin. I found the old blog skin too messy and it squeezed all of the content to two tiny columns in the middle of the page. After fiddling around with the Merchant Of Venice plot map, I gave up and sought for a newer skin that would give me sufficient space to work with and yet keep a nice, clean layout. This new skin exactly fits my description. I brought back tabbed browsing because it keeps my information neatly stored where I need it, and thus the elimination of a mess on the page with the posts, profile, links, tagboard et cetera. Additionally, it has a cyan/navy colour scheme that looks really nice. Practically all the content and preferences were copied over from the last time, so everything should work out fine. I hope.

4/3/10
Names, times and dates are finally showing as they should, I hope.

27/2/10
After spending a good few days scratching my head while staring at the miniscule line of single-width characters filling up my screen, some minor bugs in the HTML are finally corrected! :)
Firstly, the two white textboxes which happened to strangely float away somehow was put back in their supposed positions and are currently kept under lock and key.
Secondly, the sidebar was revamped with new info and a chatbox to match the colour scheme of the blog.
Thirdly, the archives problem was finally sent into the chasms of a black hole that roams...why, just outside your window.
Finally, the paragraphing was fixed with the help of the trusty tool called the human body.

5/2/10
Even though I have changed the blog skin, I still brought some of my preferences into the new blog. After pondering over this choice, I have, again, scrapped everything. Here is a brief summary of these new new changes.
Firstly, comments were put back on. Previously, I disabled commenting as I felt that it would result in much spamming and/or flaming which would be very inconvenient for me to handle. In order for me to accommodate both comments and purity, I have reenabled comments, and changed the settings such that I will moderate all the comments that come in, and thus be able to filter any inappropriate material.
Secondly, archives were put back on. Previously, my blog was set to having no archive, and thus having every existent post on the blog itself directly. Now, as I have changed the skin, this is no longer practical as the already miniscule scroll bar would be extremely hard to manipulate. Thus archives came back to life and appear within the sidebar on the right.
Thirdly, the chatbox was put back on. Previously, I had removed it due to some corruption in the data which could not be resolved. Honestly, the reason why it stayed off was that I was too lazy to examine the problem. Well, after this major revamping this has been one of my goals, which I have achieved within this short span of what... ~5 days.
Lastly, I removed the tabbing style of the previous blog skin. I decided that an image map of the cat would be too complex and difficult for a viewer to find, so I just placed my info in the textbox at the right-hand side which used to just hold the chatbox.

1/2/10
I decided, after the multiple complaints, that the blog skin was way too illegible. The main cause was that the background was black and white, which conflicted with any colour placed on it. I tried bolding the font, increasing the font size and even changing the text colour to blue, but the problem persisted. Even though the layout was nice and the navigation was cool, I found it to be unreadable too, so I scrapped the entire template and sourced out a new, neater one from blogskins.com. This new skin depicts a black cat on a red background, both ominous signs of impending doom. This shows my newfound enjoyment in doing things that are opposite of the norm, and taking delight in challenging traditions. Of course, they have to be logical and rational, or...whatever. It also removes the problem of navigation, as the previous blog was slightly subtle in revealing its navigational format.

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