Clearly, after such exertion I have stayed inside all day today and have completed the other marathon - I think I've been sat here all day fiddling and doing bits and bobs and moving things on my blog; it takes a lot of concentration and nail-biting moments when I actually lost everything: NOTE!!! I'm not joking, I made a major boo-boo and lost the whole lot but luckily a while ago I'd made a copy of the whole template; if you value your blog and don't want to lose anything I advise you do the same NOW!!! It's fairly simple: just right click the screen when viewing your blog, on the list of options click 'source' or 'view source'; this will bring up the apparent hieroglyphic/Arabic/Chinese list but is in fact the html text of your template. Highlight the whole thing, copy and paste to another file (Notepad/ Word/Text Doc...)
Anyway, all I've done is adjusted the template to have 3 columns instead of 2 and the header banner now crosses the whole screen. This of course was not me doing it all, I visited the very helpful Blogger Tips and Tricks blog and also got the whole template clone from Thur's site. He has done a Minima clone with 3 columns and all I did was adjust the widths a bit and change all the colours etc (He had the 'normal' Minima template cloned). The central column should float so if you have different screens/browsers it should fill the gap between the two fixed sidebars.
I've been looking at a few other hacks/shortcuts as well and can show one below from this page of Blogger Tips. Basically putting images side by side...also these are titled and linked...in fact they sum up my weekend as well!!! Soon I'm going to attempt the 'trick' that we all see in the profressional blogs where they post a paragraph and then you click a link to 'The full Article' or '+/- to expand/close' the article...both these options are in Blogger Help but today I have failed miserably to succeed.
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Plenty to eat and drink: OK...too much to drink and not much to eat and none of the other! S.O.
Well, at least you are adventerous Span and try something new and different(I'm just talking about your blog ;-)
YanıtlaSilI tried to add something a while back as a test as much as anything and succeeded only after putting it on the blog unlike it worked on another person's blog, it just sat there and did nothing, I suspect its me not writing the html correctly.
Thanks for the tip about the template refresh.
When I messed up my blog a few weeks ago I just reloaded the template and it corrected everything but your idea may be a safer option...
On a different point I don't believe the Rugby was being carried on main BBC radio networks over the weekend but I can hear BBC Radio Scotland/Radio Wales/Radio Ulster via satellite and they did seem to be carrying the games...
I have to admit though I did not hear them myself and coming across Nolan on Radio 5 last night though its a serious subject hearing him have his tackle felt by a Dr was a bit alarming(and yes, just as we'd all guessed)when it was featured on his N. Ireland show, we knew it would be rehashed for his UK networked programme. I didn't stick around for long...
Man, I love your site - it makes me smile in so many ways. Thanks Span.
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Very smart Span, and looks rather complicated !
YanıtlaSilThanks Curmy...I'd say it all looks very complicated! Still haven't figured the bits going from the sidebar but have asked 'online'...I've done all the things that Blogger help say need sdoing so it's something else.
YanıtlaSilPaul...now is that a good happy smile of a sad, pat me on the head smile?
He loves it Span, plan and simple - thats why he comes here...
YanıtlaSilI tried to log on here yesterday and it was all white - I thought you had done a runner. Glad you are still with us :)
I was all happy and now I'm all worried again! :-(
YanıtlaSilIt's a pat on the head smile - as my director of public relations so rightly pointed out above.
YanıtlaSilah...the old I'll just get a colleague ploy! That means the silly question section was completed and you needed to ask real questions!...but of course she'd attempted something she probably didn't know how to do in the first place but she 's the lower paid first line in the enrage-the-client-helpline world....there may be a need to undo everything she said and start from scratch, the silly thing is it should only take a couple of minutes but it is almost impossible without a video link to know you are doing exactly what the helper tells you to do...as soon as one step isn't done/wrong apge/wrong link/wrong button the rest is a waste of time....never mind.
YanıtlaSilMy disk is 70% free at the moment and most of that is solid blue sections...ahhhh...relief.