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Your link is not working. Let’s try this one:

https://www.makedasite.com

Here we go!

Your site looks more gray then green, so off the top of my head, I’d reverse the colors. Or get rid of the gray altogether. To me, gray is sort of the polar opposite of green. Green represents nature, gray represents cities and pollution.

After all, your site is called greenbuilding.com and not graybuilding.com.

No problem. Critics are always welcome. I tend to play critic myself all the time in all kinds of areas, and I constantly get in trouble for it.

I checked out your blog, and from the look of it it your design doesn’t seem to be any more complicated than mine. With all the time and work I put into getting my blog to look the way it does, I’d probably have managed to give it your Web 2.0ish look instead.

But that’s where each person’s personality comes in. I, for one, find the Web 2.0ish look a bit cold and sterile, and even though I hadn’t been aware that it was called “Web 2.0”, I sort of intuitively tried to avoid it. Just like you find my Web 1.0ish look a bit old-fashioned and naturally gravitate towards a more modernistic design.

That said, I added a link to your blog on my blog, and when the mood strikes me, perhaps I’ll consult your site for inspiration on how to a few Web 2.0ish elements. I kind of like the mix-and-match approach. I guess a little touch of Web 2.0 here and there can’t hurt, as long as it doesn’t overwhelm the 19th century feel of my design.

Thank you!

Dear vaibhavkanwal,

I have no idea what Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 means or what everybody is running after. To me, java still means coffee, and flash is what a cop does with his badge (or what a stripper does with her whatever).

What I do know is that it’s precisely that warm and fuzzy old-fashioned, non-techno-geeky, non-computery look that I like about my design, and the only way to achieve it, I believe, was to have very limited coding and web-design capablities.

An advanced web designer proabably wouldn’t have tried the stuff I tried, and would have come up with a more “Web 2.0ish” look, whatever exactly that may be.

So it’s not that I didn’t look into design. In fact, designing my little site was A LOT of work. But having not much computer experience beyond e-mailing, I just did the best I could do. Ironically, I love the result the way it is, and my “choice of colors and images” perfectly reflects who I am.

I guess i just have a Web 1.0-type personality ??

Well, I guess at some point during the tweaking process it officially stopped being the default theme and became my own.

Anyhow, I’m exhausted now, and I’m not planning to do any more web-designing in this lifetime.

Thanks for all your responses ??

Well, it’s nice, especially in the cold season. Sometimes when I’m blogging for a while, I can even turn down the heat in my room, because the little torch thingy gets pretty hot and keeps me warm when I’m close to the screen. (Yes it DOES–I’m NOT imagining it!!!)

Careful with the torch!!! I forgot to warn everybody: Always have a fire extinguisher or at least a bucket of water handy when visiting my blog! And do NOT touch the flame! (I’m not responsible for anybody’s burns. Yes, it’s a real flame–just check out the black area on my background image from all the smoke it produces!)

Thanks.

Thanks. The problem is that I immediately deleted these posts after I had mistakenly published them, so now they don’t show up anywhere in my WP admin, and I can’t modify them in any way. I guess that’s just the way it is.

I dropped the idea off at the Ideas forum, and was subsequently told by some janeforshort character that I’m, in essence, too dumb or unfocused to click on the right button:

This is definitely plugin territory. In 2.7 we made the “Save Draft” and “Publish buttons as far away from each other as we could on opposite corners of the publish module, so it’s really not an accidental click target you’re talking about, it’s a failure to pay attention to what you’re clicking on at all, unless you area using a pre-2.5 version of WordPress, in which case you really should upgrade for security reasons (and it would solve this problem.

Failure to pay attention. There you go. That was certainly my first and my last time posting anything on the Ideas Forum.

Excellent. Thanks for your help.

Two minor follow-up questions:

(1) Where are the post #s listed? How would I know this particular post is #post-1317?

(2) The method above moves the (Read More…) to the right on the main Index page. However, the (Read More…) is still on the left side on the Archive and Tagged pages. So the posts on these pages go by different numbers?

Perfect. Thank you so much.

Thank you. I tried it, and it works in a sense that it moves the (Read More…) from left to right.

The problem is, that it moves it in ALL posts, but I liked it where it was in all my other posts. I’d like to move it in this one (my latest) post only. This latest post is different from all my others in the sense that it’s mainly all pictures, and the (Read More…) simply looks wrong on the left side.

In all my other posts, I’d like to keep the (Read More…) where it was, namely like this:

… matter amounts to an exercise in futility, since–short of the passing of an constitutional amendment–our fundamental rights are not accountable to the democratic process. The Equal Protection Clause, by definition, trumps the outcome of (Read More…)

So is there a way to apply some sort of inline style to the <!--more--> in this one post only?

Eureka. It’s the Visual editor that causes the problem.

I just copied the text of one of my new and not yet published posts (written in Visual, and showing a gazillion of these holes in Preview) onto Notepad, created a new post (Add New) and then copied and pasted the text of the post from Notepad into the HTML editor. I previewed it, and there was not a single end-of-line gap in the entire post.

Beautiful. So there seems to be some serious line-length miscalculation going on in the Visual Editor.