A service advisory:
Last night I was noodling about and discovered, quite by accident, that something awful has happened to my archive; namely, most of it is missing from the front page, and nothing I can do will bring it back. Long story short, the same thing seems to have happened to some - not all - of the monthly archive pages on the blog proper, nor is it correctly displaying the last ten days, the way it's supposed to. Hunting around on the Blogger help forums seems to indicate the this is what happens to people who use six-year-old blog templates. There are potential fixes that would involve an asinine amount of work and inelegant HTML, but the easiest thing seems to be dropping the old template.
Unfortunately, I'm not remotely good enough with HTML to do it myself, and I'm certainly in no position to pay for a web designer, so that pretty much leaves me with switching to "layouts", nuking a lot of the little customised tweaks I've put in, and doubtlessly screwing around with it a bit until I'm happy with the look of it again. And then maybe switching out a couple more until I find something I can live with. The change is going to happen late Sunday or early Monday, and I'm going to put up an open thread at that point for people to chime in with opinions. This, at the moment, is just a heads-up that things are very abruptly going to be chaotic and possibly ugly here for a few days. Thanks in advance for bearing with me through these difficult times.
Added: Apparently this is actually a known thing involving a new pagination policy, except that Blogger is going out of their way to not make a deal about it. It might not be so dramatic a fix. Still, Sunday and Monday might be rocky.
25 February 2010
1 comment:
Just a few rules so that everybody can have fun: ad hominem attacks on the blogger are fair; ad hominem attacks on other commenters will be deleted. And I will absolutely not stand for anything that is, in my judgment, demeaning, insulting or hateful to any gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. And though I won't insist on keeping politics out, let's think long and hard before we say anything particularly inflammatory.
Also, sorry about the whole "must be a registered user" thing, but I do deeply hate to get spam, and I refuse to take on the totalitarian mantle of moderating comments, and I am much too lazy to try to migrate over to a better comments system than the one that comes pre-loaded with Blogger.
Oop, working through my feeds in reverse order so I'm just now seeing this after commenting on the newer post.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've knocked on Blogger's pipes in the past and they aren't pretty. I wouldn't recommend trying to screw with templates too closely—shamelessly convoluted and overly confusing if you're not sure what you're doing; a frustrating waste of time if you do.