Comments working now!

Thanks to a fab post over at Webupd8, I've managed to fix the broken comments XML. It was a bit fiddly though - I had to use the rather marvelous Notepad++ tool (which colours your code in for you!) to get it right as Blogger kept telling me I'd missed a tag out!!!

I've also managed to sort out something else which was annoying me - in theory, when you're logged in to blogger, if you have 'quick editing' set on in your blog template, you're supposed to see a little pencil next to each blog post to allow you to go straight into edit mode on that entry.

This had never worked.

I was happy to live with it because I really liked the blog layout though. So for the last few days I've used 3 clicks (edit, edit posts, select post) to get into editing a post entry from the blog itself. Hey ho, I thought.

However, as I have now got a bit braver with fixing my broken comment XML, I thought, 'why not' and have got stuck in to fixing the 'quick edit'.

Again the internet came up trumps with a great post over on 'Free Blogger Help' entitled 'How to add Quick Edit Pencil' which showed me that it was just the image of the pencil itself missing from this template. How fab.

OK, now I'm getting really flash - I've been playing around with the text in the area of the comments and the labels at the bottom of each post. I can now make it display different text based on whether I have no comments or some comments!!!

Check this out...

Labels: techie Comments: I've got 0 comments why don't you leave one?

Cool huh???
 
 

Labels - what are they?

I've started trying to categorise the blog posts we write by adding labels. I started doing it initially, when we first wrote the blog back in 2007, but there didn't seem much point back then as I only had one post per category - I'd not written enough entries really to warrant categorising them.

However, now, looking back at the posts as a 'body of work', I'd actually like to bring up related posts together to be able to present them retrospectively to new readers, as opposed to those of you who have been following them in real time.

See what you think - I've added a labels widget below left. It shows all the lables in order of how many posts have been tagged with that label.

If you click on one, it should bring up all the posts I have tagged with that label.

Interestingly the top few are 'Holidays' 'Travel' and 'Food'!!! I wonder why that is????

This is what they look like at the time of posting this blog entry - but I'm nowhere near through getting all my posts retrospectively tagged, so this may change a little over time.

Labels

holidays (35) travel (35) food (17) internet-finds (13) Aus (12) techie (12) Raleigh (10) blogging (10) NZ (9) friends (9) sewing (8) work (7) concert (6) family (5) camping (4) moblog (4) break-in (3) countdown (3) fun (3) pain (3) rant (3) Fallas (2) London (2) Rome (2) Valencia (2) drinking (2) house (2) nice (2) panic (2) yorkshire (2) Italy (1) beginning (1) comment (1) gear (1) vodafone (1) zoo (1)

Messing with the templates again.

Well I've been at it again - faffing with the blog template. It's a little bit of a departure for me as up until now I've been very safe and used the templates provided by Blogger. Unfortunately, they weren't quite giving me what I wanted so I've learned how to import and save and edit a blog template - XML - and I think I'm happy! It certainly works. I like the 3 column layout as well. Gives a bit of extra interest on the upper part of the blog. I'd like to be able to get some of our photos in as faded backgrounds too. Oh well, that'll be the next lesson.

Just testing something for Emma

Here's a nice button I made for Emma's blog

Cut and paste the following html into your blog to add this button to your blog.

<a href="http://mimiandtilly.blogspot.com//"><

img src="http://www.soundwordsministries.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mothers-day-flowers.jpg" /></a>

The Christmas Episode!

Hello & Welcome if you've come to the blog via the little Christmas message we sent out in our cards this year!

How quickly time flies! It hardly seems like a year since we waved goodbye to Mum, Dad and Janey after our lovely Christmas here last year!

So, what's been going on in 2009?

For those of you who follow the blog, you probably already know, as most of it is documented! For those of you who don't, then here is a guide to our 2009...


Food

• We bought a PIG (yes really!)
• yo!
• Lovely tea last night
• best hot and sour soup ever!

Trips/Hols

• We had a holiday in a weird little cottage in Cumbria
• Trip to Portsmouth
• New York & Vegas
• Venice Pics

Work & Geekery

• Liza went to Raleigh, again
• Dan on the night shift
• Lots of machines
• Norbert
  

Newsworthy Events

• Dan's Car blew up on the M62 -(1) A scary Phone call (2) Part 1 (3) Part 2
• Oscar
• Archie
  

Everyday Things

• A new project (Li's needlework)

Check out our Photo Albums

• Album 1 - this one has the older pics - going back to about 2007
  
• Album 2 - this one has 2 of the NY and LV albums on only
• Album 3 - most recent - including Archie, Oscar, Venice.
  

Of course, there's LOADS more in the blog - feel free to bookmark it and have a pootle around at your leisure.

So thank you if you've been part of our year this year, and we're sorry if we've not got round to seeing you in 2009. Lets get together in 2010 and you can be part of our special year next year!

Love, Li & Dan

 

You might be able to tell I've been playing with the layout?

Hellooooooo!

Guess what I've been doing this morning? Yes, that's right - playing with the template & colours of the blog layout. What do you think? I wanted something that was a bit wider and had a different feel to it. I'm hoping the layout will mean I can fit more photos on without having to save and view 200 times during the creation of each post to see where the text & photos appear in relation to each other.

Lets see how this goes.

Comment if you would like to!

Liza

Blogging from the Yorkshire Dales

It's Sunday and we're suffering! 11 miles up (and down) Ingleborough
hill. Last time I did this I was 17. I'm not 17 any more! My knees
throb, my muscles ache and worst of all, I can barely breathe! Such an
old fogey! Never mind. Off to the camping shop on the way home to buy
some stuff to cheer ourselves up with!!!

--
Liza

You have received a new message

What is wrong with the vodafone mms service? All I want to do is post to my moblog from the phone but the MMS to email 'service' insists on adding spurious text....'you have received a message..' errrr, yeah, I have received a message....I can tell that by the fact that um, I'VE RECEIVED A MESSAGE!!!! Not only that but it insists on putting a BIG header through your mail ' you have received a message from +440xxxxxxxxxx' which is never a good idea to have posted all over your blog. On top of ALL that - they insist on imbedding a whole load of adverts and Vodafone headers and graphics into the mail. (Whatever happened to plain text guys?) so that appears in the blog entry too. How crap is that?

Moblog UK

I like blogger - the site is nice and easy to use, well thought of and very stable. However, the thought of being able to post images from my mobile phone has really intreagued me. To that end I've set up an account at MOBLOG UK so that even if I'm posting text over here....I can be posting piccies over there!

http://moblog.co.uk/blog/lizarossi


Check it out.

No mobile blogging from the UK?

It can't be true. This excellent website doesn't seem to support mobile blogging in the UK. Only certain carriers (US ones) are set up to provide this service. Damn! I wish I hadn't started looking at what the possibilities were. I thought that text based blogging from a computer or phone which supports e-mail was going to be the best I could do. Now I WANT TO DO MOBILE PICTURE BLOGGING TOO. It's like seeing the cake through the window, but knowing you can't get at it! Obviously further investigation is required....

• Are there any UK based blog sites which I can blog from?
  

• Is there a 3rd party website that I can send my texts/pictures to who will then update to blogger for me?

Pah! Tecnology.

Gmail on my phone

Will it work?
3rd time lucky.

Test post from Gmail

Ok so on the blogger settings page there was an email address which could be set up to allow you to publish to the blog, by sending your post to the address, thereby removing the need to have a PC and a browser (if you have something like a blackberry or other device for sending emails). I'm writing this from gmail just to see what it looks like when it gets there....here's hoping.

Lets get this thing started

Hello! We've set up this blog so that you can keep up with what we're doing whilst we're on our holibobs. These initial few postings are going to be used for getting used to what we can (and can't) do on the blog - and especially for trying out what I can post from my lovely smartphone Palm Treo 750v
The pic was taken (using the phone) while Mum, Janey and I were on hols in Rome last month....not bad....I'll be able to post more, hopefully, from Aus & NZ