So here’s the deal. Today, I’ve been keeping busy with cooking, cleaning and gardening by chopping onion, garlic, tomato for a sauce, by washing, drying and putting dishes away, and by watering the plants, flushing out the soaping birdbath left over from ‘Maw’ washing a green bean containing ‘insect soap’ and harvesting eggplants, tomato and jalapeno and Anaheim peppers, respectively.

Other than the clear blue skies and nice weather, I played around with my weblog site again. This meant overhauling the pages in a very particular order. I’ve re-used three old ones and created two new ones: links (in place of the blogroll widget) and photos (in place of the Flickr.com widget). My purpose was to wean myself from the top navigation bar and opt for a cleaner look with a side bar containing one ‘Main Menu’, a title for the one ‘text widget’ that I couldn’t name until a few minutes ago after sampling the ‘Vermilion Christmas’ theme via WordPress.com.

Tonight, I also tried other themes ‘Simpla’, ‘Ocadia’, ‘Dusk’, ‘Fleur de Lys’, ‘ChaoticSoul’ and ‘Fresh Banana’, which I found to be the cleanest theme via WordPress.com. However, none of these free themes suited my taste. I wanted a theme with: a very clean two-column feel; extra large fonts with ‘Georgia’ style; a deep jewel, background color and not a bright, pastel faded look; the meta information for category, tags, and both the date and time stamps for each post entry and not necessarily for the page entry, and of course, the images must be automatically resized to fit the ‘content’ or ‘page’ section of the blog.

And I found my newest theme to be: ‘Quentin’ by Mike Purdy, I think. At least, it has both the ‘Blog Title’ (above) and ‘Tagline’ (below) display quite bolding on the very top with a thin border and a backward letter ‘S’ separating the blog entries below. So yeah, and after accidentally spending an extra year’s annual renewal for the CSS upgrade, I think I will have to ask the ’support’ for a refund at the going value of 15 credits. I realize how much terrible I am with editing the CSS stylesheet. But at least I tried and learned a few basic CSS codes and how modifications make a web page pretty yet functional.

Let’s see how long I’ll last with this free theme. As mentioned in my previous blogs, I’ve gone through all the themes and still am not quite satisfied. I’m better off here than self-hosting via WordPress.org because I don’t know what is a ‘FireFox’, an ‘SQL’ or a ‘PHP’. All I wanted was something free that had the look and feel of a website. The ‘Domain Registration’ is the only other 15 credits that wasn’t free. It allowed me to get a domain name, which is currently: [http://flynnspaws.com]. I like it because it has my nickname and the ‘paws’ reminds me of kitty cats.

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