Our brave new look?
The Werkes did some remodeling at Stately Blaska Manor, home of the Policy Werkes. We’re using a WordPress theme called “Stewart.” Replaces the Twenty-Ten theme we have used since Day One, which was 12-08-2016.
The crew at This Old House was restoring a mid-century modern in Massachusetts, so Pops and crew could not oblige. Besides, we like getting under the hood.
Spent most of Tuesday tweaking the thing and we’re still not satisfied. Lots pulling wires and tightening screws to tweak font sizes, add some 16-point padding between paragraphs, make the headlines “semi-bold”, find where the hell the indent margin thingie is, desperately text WordPress headquarters, which responded with a CSS (cascading style sheet) that looks like this:
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.site-main {
margin-right: 20px;
}
Must have made sense to someone at one time. Probably wore a pocket protector and lived with his mother. And was named Stewart.
Back here on the premises, we were aiming for a little cleaner look. A little less hodge and not so much podge. We try to keep our offerings under 600 words. Vow to write even shorter. We still favor vintage art — especially fond of English Regency period — irreverent illustrators llke Gillray, Rowlandson, and Cruikshank.
Could have been describing Thursday’s State of the Union
The Twenty-Ten theme was outdated even when we adopted it. Although it still works, like that cast iron skillet on our carbon-emitting gas stove, it’s no longer supported and every once in awhile some weirdness happened. (Yeah, Blaska, blame it on the software! Or those North Korean proof readers!)
The Venerable Meade wrote at our inaugural back in 2016: “Congrats on your new site.” Yesterday, he complemented our new look again. Somehow, we’re still friends.
Meade is enough of a gentleman not to gloat over Trump’s triumphs on Super Tuesday. It is only coincidence that our blog header showing Nikki’s T-shirt, the one that reads “Barred Permanently” went down the same day as her candidacy.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Blaska has been kicked out of better elections than this one. Still think July in Milwaukee and August in Chicago will be crazier than Mayor Daley’s convention in 1968. (This clocks in at 364 words! Not bad!)
4 responses to “Did you notice?”
Design upgrades can be nice. Keep refining it until it fits your needs.
Bit of a mess if you ask me but you are entitled to your late-life crisis.
Too bad about Nikki. Now all that military industrial complex money will go straight to senile Joe and daffy Kamala.
The slightly-out-of-focus fuzzy/gauzy (Munchesque?) print on the header is a soothingly pleasant change; a lazy, hazy, anything_but_crazy meandering crick (sic) draining an irenic mid August countryside.
Looks like Queen Anne’s Lace in the center right foreground, which was one of The Gotch’s Dear late Mother’s favorite wild flowers.
The Gotch
Sorry, I personally don’t care for the new look or convoluted functionality but you are The Squire. I’m sure I’ll get used to it.