Today I altered my blog.
I've meant to change out an old and antiquated form for a long while discussing with my daughter what might look more straight forward. You'll notice links to sites, books, so on are gone.
Posts will be shorter.
I hope you like it.
I think in changing the template I lost the members and also a lot of the former formats, images but there was always the issue of that loss if I switched to new blogger-but new blogger is more interesting. I built it originally using HTLM code so I was always just trying to learn how to do that. New Blogger obviously is not allowing me in to code nor am I remotely qualified.
I took down all posts to review them, thinking to consider them and sort of put up a "best of " group.
I reverted all to "draft" and then started looking at them. I intended to simply put back a set that seemed representative, perhaps 200. However in old blogger they would have published again on the date they were written and thus this would just be in the side archive. Somehow that's not what happened to about thirty so I think I have just a big pile of posts.
Twice I opened the page seeing an archive and twice it was gone.
And on and off I've been dickering with it.
So.
Far, far from my intention.
Basically -a mess.
It's just not too useable or pretty like this.
These posts on Oct 18 are just my going through ones and selecting a small set to keep while I dump everything else. In the trash.
I really have for a long time intended to alter the blog, yes I did use it to reflect on my lessons, share teaching, but I also found my skills just not too fun to review-spelling, sentence construction, one the the worst things is formatting, huge pictures, clunky unmatched fonts, broken links. Old.
I'm hoping to blog now more about my processes as an artist or in designing a lesson my thoughts, or in my life with family.
Sorry for the mess.
Update, I think I managed to restore a small archive.
Second update, I think I managed to correct a few awkward pauses.
Even though I'm not actively blogging these days, I do still enjoy reading a few interesting blogs. Thanks for hanging in there. I like the new template.
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ReplyDeleteThank you Doug, I'm missing your blog. I hope one day...in some universe of meaning.... we can continue to share thoughts and work together in some fashion. I know your blogging work made me a better teacher. I'll drop you an email soon.
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