You know what is super-exciting? For all that coding webpages has changed since I first learned - and a WHOLE FREAKING LOT has changed... basic html, I've got, but you pull up the source on any website, and it's a giant beast of... well pretty much every language but html. I know how css works in theory, but only remember a little off the top of my head. I'm incapable of doing the new style blogger templates. This layout, I managed, but... barely. And you will notice that there are no blogger widgets on it. (Which I don't mind, actually.) The code is a pretty disgusting mish-mash of bits I snagged from elsewhere, and super-basic html that's totally inefficient.

BUT.

Looking at my NaNo blog, I realized the copious amounts of text were getting hard to read. I decided I wanted more space between the lines - not quite double-spaced, but something more than single-spacing. So, into the code I went. It's all nice and neat and prettily organized...but there are A LOT of things in there. Every detail of the thing is laid out in the headers, and I have to figure out what's what. Thankfully, people who provide templates do things like put in comments to mark where different sections of the page are. So eventually I found the chunk that sets up how the posts are viewed. And I spotted "line-height:1.4em;". Line height! And ems are measurements! That might be it! So I arbitrarily doubled the number, refreshed the blog, and lo and behold there were vast amounts of space between the lines. I WIN! I may not be able to code to save my life, but I can still work out juuuust enough to get an idea of what's going on, and fix what I want.

+1 confidence.

And another +1 for cranking out the day's writing ration before midnight. woo! Tomorrow is a day off, so I'm running to campus to hang out with some other NaNo'ers (which, oddly, I have neverever done in all my years of NaNo'ing) and drink copious amounts of coffee and hopefully get some writing done.

...what do you mean, my fridge is empty and my sink is full of dishes?

Labels: nanowrimo, technology