Meandering Missive: Blog SNAFU fixed! I think?

Friday, November 11, 2005

Blog SNAFU fixed! I think?

Although I think I wigged out too much and too quickly in this morning's entry, I'm glad I did, because it inadvertently helped me solve the problem quickly as well.

Actually, the main help came from Shari in Las Vegas (she of cool Shari.com fame). She saw my petulant plea and was kind enough to post some troubleshooting ideas in the comments section. Thank you, Shari! :) You were right -- it was an errant bit of HTML that caused my whole blog template to be upended! (I think this calls for a correction to be made with the perfidious purple pen)! >;)

Anyway, I went and looked at the HTML code comprising the "Which Tree Are You?" quiz that I posted here yesterday (Nov.10), and I saw that one of the tags, I think it was table width, was set at 600. That seemed a bit large for my blog template, especially since my blog has a fancy sidebar. So I randomly changed the 600 to 400 (it sounded like a good reduction) and re-published the blog with the edited entry.

It worked!! Or at least, I think it did. I visited by blog after clearing my browser cache just for good measure, and all seems back to NORMAL! I hope it's that way for everyone else too. And here I went and sent a panicky email to Blogspot's tech support team. *blush* Oh well, hopefully at least they'll get a laugh out of my lameness! :)

Today I am feeling embarrassed and