Noodling Around With Zel

Experiments With Color Pallette Generators

2011-08-25T13:25:00.001-07:00

I just want to create a palette for my next wardrobe project.

Resizing banner for Georgia

2011-07-18T14:41:00.000-07:00

Server Error On Photo Uploads

2010-11-22T12:32:00.000-08:00

Just when I thought Blogger had worked out all their issues with the new photo uploader, I go to add photos today and get a Server Rejected error. So I went to Google to look for fixes. Someone said if you had Picasa and your album was full with over 1000 photos that you'd get the error message. The fix was to revert back to the older version of Blogger, post one photo and it would start a new Picasa album and self correct. I did, and it did.

Recently my old computer ran out of memory and my tech gave me another old one. Except in the transfer I lost paint shop pro. Ugh. After 2 weeks of pulling my hair out I downloaded Picasa, which is free. And then Picasa populated the program with my photos and I have well over 1000, so that's what created the Blogger glitch (I think).

If you are having the same issue, maybe this fix will work for you as well. Go to your settings page, click on 'old editor' and then add one photo. You can switch back to the new fangled editor after that.

Learning and Relearning How to Use Internet Sites

2010-06-30T18:54:00.001-07:00

Blogger's new design button has been challenging. Slowly one by one I'm changing my 70+ blogs over to the new format. Social networking has become so complicated and labor intensive that I really feel sorry for people just joining the Internet. I'm still learning new stuff every day. Each new site has it's new challenges. I recently joined Tumblr and I was so lost on there I had to ask for help in the Etsy chatroom. One of the unsung great parts of Etsy chat is it's full of creative minds and most are more than willing to jump in and tell you how they made an ad, or made a Facebook fan page or how to design your banner. Of course not all advice is good, so you have to filter through it, but it's free. So I got my Tumblr going pretty well.

Etsy now has a button you can push each time you list a new item that dumps it right onto Facebook. Such a time saver. I used it today when I posted a new black scarf.

Hubpages has changed a lot so I'm relearning how to use it. When a site redesigns major elements you have to relearn all over again.

My biggest worry right now is this computer is running out of memory. The guy fixing my 'good' computer basically stole it as I haven't heard from him in almost 2 years and he doesn't return emails or phone calls. I say we should just go to his house and bang on his door, but he's my boyfriend's friend and he doesn't want to alienate him. I guess when you can build a computer from scratch you forget that some of us can't. And it's a major inconvenience and loss of revenue if someone else is holding your computer hostage. I don't even know if it's fixed or not. I just know he ordered about $200 worth of parts. You'd think he'd want to get paid for those at least, wouldn't you?

Ah well, I didn't mean for this to be a rant. If you are fixing something for someone, be kind and get it done in a timely manner or give it back.

Now How Do I Change My Font Color?

2010-06-10T18:27:00.000-07:00

I thought I should change the font color on my paragraph headings. Only with the new format features I don't know how. Gone is the old 'customize' button, which is what I would have clicked on to find the 'font' buttons. I've poked around and haven't found them yet and sure don't want to risk losing my custom backgrounds. All bets are off now with the new and improved templates. Past advice isn't going to work now, is it? I'll keep looking.

New Templates Just Added To Blogger

2010-06-10T18:22:00.000-07:00

After I posted this to one of my writer's blogs, I realized it really belongs here because it's about changing your templates on Blogger. So without further ado, I'm reposting it here:

I was really frustrated last week when I tried to tweak my Google AdSense widgets on some of my blogs. I got error messages on the blogs I was editing as well as on a new blog I created. I tried to resolve the issue by searching for answers on Google and on the help pages of Blogger and AdSense to no avail. So I crossed my fingers and hoped it was one of those issues that would fix itself if I just stopped mucking around with it.

Happily today I was greeted on Blogger by a pop-up window announcing new template software. It's been so hard to create decent original templates on Blogger. And I'm guessing that implementing that new feature was the thing that was mucking up Adsense on my blogs because today it's all working just fine. All the blogs I edited have the Adsense ads showing up again, and even the new blog is showing the ad boxes.

I've played around some with the new template features. So far it's been confusing. I did test out a few of the designs but still don't know if it will let me add my own photos to the backgrounds like Twitter and other sites do. So I still have a lot to check out. Please don't try it on your favorite blog that you've soaked hours into. Make a new blog or use one of your experimental blogs to test drive the new features.

I Need Spellcheck

2009-09-26T13:07:00.001-07:00

I love the new editor on blogger, but the spell check button seems to be gone. Anyone else know what happened to it? There ABC icon is for strikethrough now, not spelling.

New Update Editor

2009-09-15T17:12:00.000-07:00

Today while noodling around I found out how to enable the Email button on the settings page so people can now email my blog entries to all their friends. I found that little tidbit in a library book. While fixing that I happened upon a button that said update to the better more improved editor. So I clicked on that and it applied to all my blogs. Now the 'add a photo' icon is gone! But it didn't go too far. If you click on the compose tab there is all the photo editing buttons. It's supposed to be easier and better to add or resize or place photos where you want them. I'll give it a try.

Trying Again

2009-09-13T23:54:00.000-07:00

Tonight I decided to try these directions: http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2007/10/how-to-use-background-image-for-your.html I love how all this sites tell me how easy it is to do, and then I still can't do it.

Shazam I just got it to work! Whew. I erased the old template and tried again with a new template and had to tweak the photobucker url a bit to exactly match the example in the hot link above. I'd about given up when it finally worked.

I Love Torley

2009-09-06T23:13:00.000-07:00

Thanks I needed this:

Still Dinkin' Around

2009-09-06T22:40:00.000-07:00

I found this new set of directions here: and I feel like they should work, but no luck so far.

Frustrating

2009-09-06T17:43:00.000-07:00

After about two hours of fiddling around I've gotten nowhere. My background photo still isn't showing up. It's supposed to look like this photo. Still don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Making a New Template

2009-09-06T16:45:00.000-07:00

I've been to nearly a dozen help sites, but this one looks like it may actually tell me what I want to know http://blogatech.blogspot.com/2007/04/adding-background-images-to-blogger.html

Collage Background

2009-09-06T16:40:00.000-07:00

I want to start using my own collages for backgrounds on my blogs. Here are a few samples. I also want to add original music, and I don't know how to do that either.

CSS and Background

2009-09-06T16:36:00.000-07:00

Today's quest is to figure out how to make a new and unique blog background with animations, bells and whistles and so forth and break away from the prestructured blogger templates that have made me feel locked in and confined for years. So far I'm drowning in computer lingo but I did just find out that CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. What I haven't figured out is how to download a template to my hard drive and then add my own background photo. That is quest #1.