Almost Fixed!

For the last week, my blog has been broken.

One day at work I thought to myself "My blog is boring. And my pictures don't fit very well in the little column Blogger gives me. I need a new template!"

So bright eyed and hopeful, off I went in search of a new template. And I found lots of really cool ones. But no matter how meticulously I followed the directions for installing them, they never worked. Ever. I kept getting error messages from Blogger or a screen of garbely gook. I just couldn't figure it out. In the meantime, while I was trying to figure it out all my little gizmo gadgets in my side bar disappeared.

So everyday for about a week I would spend time trying to fix it.

Was it the blogger server? Wait for a day. Nope. Not it.
Was it the computer I was on? Change computers. Nope.
Browser? Maybe it doesn't like IE? Firefox? Chrome? Oh come on!
Maybe it's the template? (try maybe 15 different templates from different sources). No
XML? No
HTML only? Sorry.
Google the error codes showing up. Nothing. Except 2 hits in French. I don't speak French.
Crap

BLOG! WHY ARE YOU BROKEN!?! STOP TORTURING ME!

**sigh**

Seriosuly. I was thisclose to just deleting my blog and starting over again.

So today while putting in some blog fixing time and researching transfering posts to a new blog, I decided I'd try changing the template on a different blog I own. It worked! It was cake! Hmmmm.

So after puttering around for a bit I figured out at least one of my gizmos (which had never given me any problems before) was broken. So I deleted it (and a bunch of other gizmos that weren't broken in an effort to find the broken one). And you know what happened?

It worked! No error message. No computer code vomit. A blog! With cupcakes! Yay!

I even got ambitious and tweaked the code a bit to fix the size of my main posting column. Changed some colors, etc.

I do still have quite a bit of re-configuring left....especially with the right column gizmos and links but I'm pleased to say that my blog works, you can read it, AND the pictures fit in the main column (which was the thing that started this mess to begin with).

Any suggestions for things you'd like to see on my blog? Let me know in the comments! With the exception of actual entries, I'm kind of starting from scratch again so I'd love ideas for fun things to do with my new space. It's kind of like moving into a new apartment...same stuff but new digs and a new chance to re-decorate and re-organize in a (potentially) more useful way.

Maybe it's a good sign for things to come.