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Some of you have been asking about the changes taking place here at BGRS, so I’m going to try to run through them quickly.
Third Column: I’ve utilized some aggregation skills to install these feeds over in that column. Kentucky Indies Blogs Today is the 15 newest entries from the Bluegrass Conservatives blogroll in the right column, plus Page One Kentucky / The Ville Voice and the Kentucky Democrat, because, well, they’re pretty much the only KY lefty blogs worth reading. Below that is the Kentucky MSM Blogs thing, which is the 10 most recent blog posts from Mark Hebert, Pol Watchers, C-J’s Politics In Kentucky, Pat Crowley, and PolitickerKY. Under that I added the C-J and H-L sports news and then, of course, some celebrity gossip - so you have something to talk about with your workmates. In this column, expect to soon find a section of the most up to date news on the White House 2008 race.
Template: Basically I took the famous K2 template that I believe is still available here and modified by adding a third column to get a 3K2, or 3 column K2 template. I thought about adding a 4th, but I really don’t see a huge necessity at this point. I could use it, but honestly, adding the third column was complicated enough. I’m not a web designer or a programmer or anything, so even though it was actually pretty simple it was pretty hard for me. Because the simple classic blogger k2 template had not been updated for three columns that I could find (I think there were some blogger beta options and some fancy stuff, but no simple classic 3k2), I am going to try to go back into my template html soon and generalize it to make it available to others who want to use the general template outline.
Spiffies: Not really big deals. I think I got both the pullquote css (the box that enables me to highlight really stupid things that people say or really awesome things that people say) and the dropcaps css from Beautiful Beta (they had non-beta for these also). I copied and pasted the .pullquote css and then modified it to .pullquoteleft so I could put the quotes on both sides. That was easy just float left and go margin-right instead of margin-left.
Peekaboo: If a post is longer than the ordinary post, it is sometimes kind of ridiculous to put the whole thing up on the front page. People get bored and go away or fall asleep. Some people counter this by putting the lead up there and making you take the permalink out to that particular posts url. I didn’t really want to do this, but it is still an option for people. Clicking on the entry’s title takes you to the permalink where you view the peekaboo-free entry. On the main page, though, at some point I will manually enter that “Live free and read the rest of this BGRs entry . . .” link. When you click on that link the rest of the entry appears without you having to navigate over to the permalink page. Then, when you’re done reading the ingenius things that I wrote, you can click the thing that says something like “Collapse the screen back to its original form.” Then you read the next ingenius thing I wrote.
YouTube: I kind of have a love hate relationship with YouTube. I love the content that people can view on demand there, but I kind of hate going to the site and dealing with my personal account because I just kind of think it’s confusing. Regardless, I have made it to where . . . whenever I find a video on YouTube that I like I put it in my playlist and then it is available for viewing in the player that is nailed to the screen just above all of my entries and below the header. Keep an eye on that. There will be some good stuff there.
Blogrolls: The United We Stand blogroll is a collection of handpicked blogs that I like for a combination of reasons including both content and design elements. All of them are worth looking at. I will continue to update this as I find awesome blogs. Also, expect to soon find a blogroll of energy/econ blogs because those are kind of like my fields as well as (maybe) a short blogroll of cool international politics blogs - so y’all can know what’s happening in Canada and France and Germany and other weird places. This is harder, though, because of the language barrier.
I think that’s about it. I hope you enjoy these new functions.
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