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The Fourth of July and New Years are ranked very high on my ‘Favorite Holiday’ list: you gotta love the idea of giving people a bunch of booze and high explosives and saying, “Okay. Now don’t do anything stupid.”
This won't be my annual ‘wrap up’ ... these are just a couple of things I wanted to squeeze in before the end of the year.
On the 22nd, POPSENSE listed Predator Press as one of their definitive “Best Blogs of 2008.” I promised myself I would look up what ‘definitive’ means before I posted this news to ensure they weren’t actually being sarcastic -but what am I gonna do now? It’s too late. Besides, I made that promise to myself in the full knowledge that I had an impulse control problem.
I have forgiven myself entirely.And I feel better now!
Don’t you?
Also a buddy from the new and improved soon-to-be-unleashed Cult of Qelqoth asked me to make a banner for his site so’s he could feature me for a day or two. He had to change his URL recently due to a court settlement: it’s my understanding that he should sail through probation just fine as long as he verifies a chick's age against her driver’s license from here on out.
Now I’ve made a few buttons and banners in the past -most are in the sidebar and the rest are featured here- so I figured I would offer some advice to banner creation “newbies.”
There's only one thing you need to know here and it should be obvious: Do not buy your computer at Menards. When I heard I could get a PC with a walnut finish, track lighting and a barbeque pit for $16.99 I was all over it -but alas these things are woefully inadequate on RAM, and the thing switches off whenever anyone flushes the toilet. Seriously. Get a box of Kleenex and a bottle of Visine because it’s going to be Junior High School all over again.Another problem you might face is weird dimensions. It was bad enough that it needed to be 350 pixels by 130 pixels … but this particular Cult of Qelqoth [TCOQ] author gives all his instructions in units he describes as “cubits.”
The pixel-to-cubit ratio comes out something like this:
Fortunately the Menards computer is spectacular at the pixel-to-cubit ratio, but this triggers lots of pop-up ads hawking bulk lumber sales, animal cages and water sealing products.
Ultimately -in answering the call from TCOQ- I magicked me up this:
Were you so inclined to use it please feel free … I do kinda like it, but I can’t even fit it in my sidebar: it’s going to spiral down forever into the murky unread archives.
I really should read those things one day.
-It could only help with the continuity.
Comments
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(without the first 2 slashes). I'm snatching it up. I actually have this size middle sidebar. Oh, and also because I like your blog, of course!
If you show me a banner that has that feature working I could probably figure it out. But thanks for the tip!! :)
Chris: Yeah ... I lopped off about two paragraphs regarding the "conversion rate" too! heehee
http://www.wallpaperama.com/forums/javascript-onclick-select-all-text-in-a-form-field-t6378.html