my first official entry! woot!
ooookay. so. i'm on my new blog home thing, in the this-is-where-you-write-stuff area, and... i'm confused.
which comes as no surprise to me, or anyone else for that matter.. i'm well aware.
however. i don't think i can post a real post, er anything, until i figure out what all these various boxes are (entry body.. extended entry... excerpt..) cuz.. what if i put the wrong thing in the wrong box and there is mass confusion?!
does extended entry mean "only use if you're going to write a whole LOT" otherwise use entry body?
what is this exceprt business at the bottom?
what is this category business at the top?!
OMG I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOIIIIIIIIIING!!! egads.
i need to get a grip. and learn to speak computer, because obviously i'm not quite as computer savvy as i once thought i was, holy moses, why do i complicate everything?!
*sigh*
okay. i'm going to go edjumacate myself, and hopefully will be back with an actual "this is what i did this weekend" post sometime soon!
wish me luck!
--this is the extended entry box. what does it do?---
(okay, i'm back...)
ah HA! i was right. this box (extended entry) is for if i have a really LONG entry and i don't want the whole thing displayed at once. cool. (lets learn together, shall we?!)
still can't figure out about that other box, the excerpt box... its off in cyber land somewhere, i've yet to find it... but. we're getting there.
i EVEN... figured out the category situation! and made CATEGORIES!!! who doesn't love making up categories, right?! i have... a running category. life. boys (shocker!). super random, and finally a ridiculous mess category.
what will go in that category? oh, you know, posts much like this one, that are just my version of verbal diarrhea i've chosen to share with the world! awesome. good times. kudos to me.
now then. what else do i want to do? a new banner... i have to get on that. figuring out what that big blue line running down the side of my blog is...
<--------- that one. over there. dunno what its deal is. have deleted/changed many lines of code in an attempt to rid myself of the line... yet it remains.
its a mystery.
what else.
ah!! this font situation. i'm more partial to a serif'd font, personally... i took the liberty of changing every line of code i could possibly find in my template that had anything to do with "font"... yet, lookie here. sans-serif.
gold star for me.
so. needless to say, i've got my work cut out for me.
feel free to check back in at your leisure, i'm sure to be here. screwing things up in a.maria fashion for quite some time!!!
ciao!
Comments
Maybe blogger doesn't look so bad afterall. Just kidding. I would be as confused and sometimes I am on blogger as well. Good luck w/ the computer speak.
Posted by: Nicole | July 10, 2006 5:08 AM
Welcome to BTT, I just moved from Blogger too and it took a little while to figure out what's going on - don't worry you'll figure it out.
Posted by: Jack | July 10, 2006 5:23 AM
whoo hoo! sending you an e-mail!
Posted by: jeanne | July 10, 2006 6:00 AM
Really, if I were just looking at the text, I'd have no clue that you were struggling. But that's just me. Figuring out your new blog should be fun for you. And I love, love catagories. Only, you should also have catagories for race reports so new people just visiting (Well, I can't actually imagine any RBF person who hasn't been to your blog, but you know, newbies and all that.) can get a snapshot of your marathons. Just a suggestion from the peanut gallery.
Posted by: sam92077 (Stephanie) | July 10, 2006 6:42 AM
Hmmm. The only categor links that work are "ridiculous mess" and "super random." Coincidence???? (hehe)
Posted by: Greyhound | July 10, 2006 6:53 AM
Make sure you let me know when you completely and officially want links changed. I'll leave mine where they are, for the short term.
Posted by: Iron Pol | July 10, 2006 7:30 AM
Hold me! I'm Scared!!
I'm not a big fan of change, so this is going to take some getting used to. But so far, I dig it (kind of).
You'll iron out all the kinks in no time.
Posted by: Running Jayhawk | July 10, 2006 7:40 AM
I give you credit, I looked at switching to mobile type, it was over my head. I love the new header by the way. Good luck getting settled.
Posted by: Bob | July 10, 2006 7:51 AM
She is moving on to big and better things in the Blog world. Great job!
Posted by: Al Durham | July 10, 2006 8:00 AM
Hmmmm ... I'm not sure we can be friends anymore. I felt hurt.
Posted by: Josh | July 10, 2006 8:01 AM
no worries.
your baby pic is entertainment enough for the time being...
even back then you had great hair -- it's a burden i say -- you're just gonna have to live with it Samson!
Posted by: bolder | July 10, 2006 9:47 AM
Gosh...the new blog sure is pretty...
Posted by: The Rover (K Lance) | July 10, 2006 11:47 AM
I bet you wish YOU were an enginerd, now, huh???
Posted by: Nic | July 10, 2006 3:41 PM
When's the blogwarming party?
Posted by: KT | July 10, 2006 5:20 PM