In the process of adding a stylesheet switching option to this blog, I inadvertently created a conflict with the switcher for the main site, which meant that each was overwriting the others’ cookie, hence the css either broke or went AWOL.
By adding a path for the relevant areas to each set of scripts I was able to fix it.
Who says I’m my own worst enemy? Oh yeah, me…
So, there’s this larger-than-average kissing gate as you stop following Monk’s Lode and cross some fields back into Wicken.
And the lock isn’t very secure, so that it easily pops open, leaving the gate standing ajar. One of the ponies had managed to negotiate this and got trapped on the wrong side of the gate. When I reached the gate the rest of the horses and ponies were milling around while the trapped pony was trying to find a way to get through the fence. I managed to coral it through the gate and back to freedom. I suppose someone else would have done the same thing if I hadn’t.
Every time the pony had it’s back to me, as I was guiding it through the gate, I was thinking this is a very bad position to be in, I hope it realizes I’m trying to help and doesn’t kick out. Nice pony.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/escdotdot/sets/603620/
Another very hot day to take a long walk on. There’s a story to come about how I saved a pony’s life, but it’ll have to wait until tomorrow . . .
Following on from the styling of the header information (Pages, Archives etc.), I’ve styled the post title, date and the meta data at the end of every post.
Another little tweak was to add the relative time since the post was made below the post title. The iTunes information now fits into the scheme better and the Technorati tags follow on nicely from them with the potential for more snippets like these in the future.
The Technorati tags were difficult to style. They’re added automatically by ecto, the blog editor I am using, as a plain <p>. There’s no way to edit the template for this to add a class to that paragraph so that it can be styled independently from the rest of the post. So how could I pinpoint this paragraph and apply the styles to it? What was unique about it?
I had to read up about adjacent selectors in order to solve this one. This paragraph’s unique attribute is that is immediately follows the div.iTunes, so
div.iTunes + p {}
does the trick.
Problem: Because the iTunes div and the Technorati p sit within the ‘postentry’ div they retain its margin so I have to override this with a negative margin – which is a bit hit and miss between different browsers because it’s specified in ’ems’. I’ll have to change that back to pixels so I can get it lining up exactly with the edge of the box (including all the hacks for IE).
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