A New Look and my Geekiness

Okay, so I am thinking about a new look. I have actually started it, without anyone really recognizing that I have changed things on my site. If you look at my short stories, my blog roll, and my archives, you will notice that I am now using drop down menus.

I am turning into such a geek. I mean, when I started blogger, I knew nothing of HTML (the markup language that the Internet primarily uses). I guess I should make a small aside – I am not a real geek and I am going to describe things that are wrong. Okay, I am not computer expert, so please don't show your geekiness by correcting me. I can see someone with thick glasses and halitosis typing into my comments, "Actually, Ms. Leesa, there are 4 variants of HTML now in common use, and that does not mention any server side or client side … blah blah blah."

Okay, back to me and HTML. When I started blogger, I knew absolutely nothing. And after a while, I got a bit tired of looking at my site that had links to Google and something like "Add a Link." Plus I wanted to get back to ddot, and I did not trust my memory. So I learned something that would link files – something called hyperlink.

So here I was using that confusing code to link other people – and then to hyperlink things I was talking about. What do you know, I look like I know what I am doing. Then I started using a few other tags, to bold and to italicize my words, because frankly, I use these crutches to make my thoughts seem more rational or intelligent. Whatever. Two more markups that could also be used in comments. Impress your friends. You know the drill.

And that's all I knew until Friday. Well, once I figured out how to change colors to text, but I forgot how to do that. That's okay. Well, on Friday, I thought to myself, my side panel was sort of out of control. I wanted a shorter list of stuff on the side. Enter drop down menus.

So I figured out how to do that with my short stories. And it took me some time. A heck of a lot more than 15 minutes. Like more than an hour just for the short stories. And afterwards, I thought I would do my friends and blog tools. Same way, easy enough. And then there are the archives – I notice someone just hard coded the archives. Not geeky enough for this babe. I had to use something else – and now I cannot remember how, and presto, with one line of code, I have all of my archives.

And my drop downs looked okay, but the font was in black when the rest of my lists were in some funky blue color. What to do? Change the color of the drop down menus. Again, I did it on Friday, and I cannot remember what I did, but I like this change.

I have a friend, my musie, who wrote on Saturday about how sexy one of her skirts feels to her. I think most of us have some clothes we buy and then don't wear because the clothes are too revealing – they sort of scare us. Well, now musey likes her skirt – and she had the legs for the skirt. Well, as far as my blog, I am now embracing my geekiness. I wanted something really plain – the writing is what is important – and now I am wondering about changing my header. Not that the header will turn heads, but it makes me feel good. If I can find the time.