Thank You
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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.
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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.”
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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:
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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:
![This site doesn’t have porn, but it’s still good.]( https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK2taZTShmy_7spF77FZKnqfiJ9VmdIxgewvBmZDyl7fuWIyFIfLa6F8KZriCL2KY9T33xTzdw_68wN36YntO4coenk0AqkHIMy73Y9rF3jL0ZHvdAi5qwuOcELTbSKkEPQBCu-g/s400/template+exp2.jpg)
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