marie b.

Updated. Thanks.

I think it's more a preferential thing - I should've noted that. I receive .new errors sometimes, and none of the error-creating examples mentioned above hold true in my instance. No temp files - no errors.

If you want to prevent the .new error happening again, try adding the following to mt.cfg : >NoTempFiles 1

My boyfriend's lived here for almost 10 years, too, and he isn't used to it either. Maybe it's just something that you have to be born into in order to cope with it. Me, I can live with being born into non-stop wind and rain - weather that doesn't melt my skin from my body. I wish! We had a giant thunderstorm last night with an hour of non-stop rain, and it took everything I had not to run into the street in the middle of it all.

You can have the weather here in Dallas. I can't even go outside for long, I'm so unused to it. I miss Irish weather - which is something I never thought I'd say.

Oh god - I should've seen that. Thanks! Now I'm off to sift through all of this . .

I thought that, too, but I tried to download it the day before yesterday and that's when I got the error. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, as I don't remember server logs coming with an executable file in them at all - on my old host, it was a text file that they sent me.

I should've mentioned that I tried to download the server logs, but got an error - an executable file inside of the download, with a filesize of 0. Also, I don't think that it's a search engine hit - I have my blog hidden from most search engines and the ones that do get through are redirected.

In Awstats, I've noticed that people are entering my site through specific photo and post URLs, and even through the URL of an image that I doodled and scanned. I'm a tad paranoid after some kid was hotlinking an entire folder of my images, so I'd like to know where these people are coming from and whether they're hotlinking my images or not. I can't see anyone hotlinking by scanning my Latest Visitors, and yet Awstats says that someone is linking to these posts and images somewhere. Or is there another explanation - bookmarked, URL history bar, etc?

I used to be a moderator for a chat-client company, and that was my biggest pet peeve. Of course, a bigger pet peeve would be when the original post was edited to contain all the suggestions I'd made, so I looked like a complete schlep who couldn't read.

Excellent. It should be easy sailing from now on.

No problem. The way I do things is super-convoluted, so even I get confused sometimes.

I can't really see what you mean, other than having the same layout for the Individual entries as for the Main Index - so it looks like the exact same page, but with a different photo and text .. .. the solution to which I mentioned up there. ^ Other than that . . I've no idea. If you don't want the comment boxes to show - as they don't on the main index - then I'd suggest going for pop-up comments, as the Individual template is always where the comment form is for inline comments.

Sorry - I was just answering a question with step-by-step instructions (but no pictures). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh no, I just thought I'd answered on the wrong thread, since I didn't remember a big post and then BAM! there it was. I panicked a little.

Wow . . that's one huge post up there. maggieroofus, I think you want the individual archives to look like the main index - same images and colors and general layout? So just use the same CSS and template - copy the entire Main Index after you've edited it to your liking and paste it somewhere like Notepad. Then copy the entry code from the Individual template, paste it in place of the entry code on your copied Main Index template, paste that in it's entirity into the Individual Template . . and there you go. That's how I got all of my pages to look alike, anyway. It's a bit convoluted, but it works.

You mean can you get the templates to look identical? Just use the same CSS and template structure for the Individual templates. If you mean cycle through the entries without the URL changing from the main index . . I don't think that's possible.

Just the main index.

You could add a link to the archives to your navigation, or have a second text navigation bar at the bottom. For the recent entries, if you want to keep them . . I've no idea, although if you're using Next / Previous then there isn't really a need for Recent Entries. The buttons and Creative Commons could go along the bottom, too - since there will only be one post per page, there wouldn't be a lot to scroll through for people to see them. Just delete the tags around the sidebar content, and shift the content to where you want it to go.

If you use center tags around the content, then that should center it. It'll also validate as XHTML, and the CSS should validate as pure even after you'v edited it. And no problem

Create a new index template (on the Templates page), add the same barebones CSS tags as the other templates, and hardcode some links onto it - or drop in a Blogroll. Then link to it with your navigation.

If you want everything in one column, then I'd either go with putting it at the top of the page, between the post and your navigation . . . . or on the same line as your comment / trackback links.

Assuming you haven't already changed the Master Archive template it some way, it goes in place of this : ><h2>Archives</h2> <p> <MTArchiveList> <a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></a><br /> </MTArchiveList> </p> Next & Previous links use this code : ><MTEntryPrevious><a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="previous entry">«</a></MTEntryPrevious> <MTEntryNext><a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="next entry">»</a></MTEntryNext>

No problem. Feel free to edit the CSS and play around with it. You might need tips on where I put each tag to get everything fine, or you can handle it yourself - I'm not sure. It'll be the same for each template too, which is handy. For the archives, use this : ><MTSubCategories> <MTSubCatIsFirst><ul></MTSubCatIsFirst> <MTIfNonZero tag="MTCategoryCount"> <li><a title="<$MTCategoryCount$> post(s)" href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>" title="<$MTCategoryDescription$>"><MTCategoryLabel></a> <MTElse> <li><MTCategoryLabel> </MTElse> </MTIfNonZero> <MTSubCatsRecurse max_depth="3"> </li> <MTSubCatIsLast></ul></MTSubCatIsLast> </MTSubCategories> <br /> <br /> <ul><MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly"> <li><a class="plain" href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveDate format="%B %Y"$></a></li><br /> </MTArchiveList></ul>

From what I'm seeing, you want a one-column blog with navigation above the posts, and text below the photos in each post? I've done this with my blog, and it validates as pure CSS too. You can take a look at the CSS here, and my blog here, and tell me if it's the sort of thing you're after. If so, I could give you tips on editing the templates. The image mapping, however, is something I've never done but which should slide in easily.

I have let it go, for the most part - I was thinking of emailing her, but decided that it'd be pointless in the long run. However, I'm just angry that I feel the need to censor myself over something that shouldn't have been done in the first place.