When in doubt, power cyle. I rebooted, came back, and now have a little of this terra cotta-color action going on my very own site ("colour," for Pixy and all the others outside the unorthodox USA). Much nicer, at least for now.

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Well, I've got my Site Meter installed. My existing blogroll has also been switched over, along with a few of my sidebar plug-ins. The blog is still displaying with very little color on my browser, so I'll have to work on that. Susie complimented me on the accent colors, but unless the display she's getting is quite different from the one I'm getting she's only seeing a little green on the sidebar--and I didn't put it there. It was, I think, part of the default template.

So far I've tried about a billion times (that means 3-4, both last night and today) to change the style sheet to something with a bit more color in it, but it never quite works. (I've been working on the one called "Rusty," which isn't quite the heart's desire but might liven things up a little bit until I can muster up the courage to get another template from somewhere else, and--gasp!--install it.)

Thanks to everyone for their patience (and, in the case of the Munuvians, lavish encouragement). Thanks especially to Madfish Willie for the tutorials he's publishing on Munuviana.

UPDATE: Madfish says he's seeing a new template, so at least other people are seeing color. But I'm not. Wonder if it's my old, creaky browser that's to blame? Curiouser and curiouser.

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I guess it's time to start learning Movable Type, which I'm not sure I could even spell correctly a week ago.

I tried to install my old SiteMeter--the one I just removed from the old Blogspot version of Little Miss Attila. I succeded only in deleting everything on the blog. Yes--for about a minute I had so screwed things up that if you came here you'd see the SiteMeter box, all right--but nothing else. Fortunately, I undid that successfully. (I think Madfish Willie wanted us to back up our style sheets. Why do I always heed these warnings too late?)

Naturally, I'd wanted to track just how much of a Beltway-lanche I was going to get from James's recent mention of my new location, but I'll just assume it's a lot of traffic. Always is.

And I need to remember what one of the other Munuvians mentioned recently: SiteMeter doesn't work. We only pretend it works. It's the emperor's new clothes. There is no Meter there.

So I guess I'll at least grab the code for the double-secret Munuvian meter and . . . oh, see. That was the whole problem. Where do I put the html for plug-ins in my sidebar? (There's a straight line if ever I heard one.)

It feels daunting to have to learn a new system, but when I started blogging I didn't know any tags at all--I couldn't do bold or italics, and still *emphasized* words with asterisks as if I were writing e-mail. So things have changed (though I'm still using the double-hyphen ["--"] for em-dashes, which is sloppy).

I think I posted my first picture a month or two ago. Very low-tech, huh?

Hey. I have a strictly utilitarian view of technology, which means I learn this stuff more slowly than most. But learn it I will.

Yay. (I loved it when Triticale pointed out the frequent Munuvian use of that word as a cultural phenomenon. I think it's rather charming, myself.)

If this blog continues to look a little spare--ascetic, even--for a little while longer, you'll know why.

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1 When I started blogging I didn't even known what html was...I still hesitate to descend into my template or style sheet without my spelunking gear and a heavy duty flashlight (for whacking the raccoons) but it has gotten easier over time. The trick is never to do more than you can undo comfortably... Oh, and I like the splash of color you've got going! Baby steps! Baby steps into the elevator...

Posted by: Susie at April 03, 2004 01:54 PM (dD4I4)

2 Don't fear the templates! Templates are our friends. When I first stated and didn't know, well... anything, I would make my changes really exagerated so I could see what was affected by what code. It was really slow going and made for some really interesting pages to view. Reference MuNuby Help II and MuNuby Help III if you need some help whith which goes where. I'll put together a list of HTML and CSS primer sites and post on the group site. That way whenever you have a question or need a reference it's always handy.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at April 03, 2004 03:43 PM (JxHpA)

3 BRAVO!! Nice. sitemeter... new template... Do you have a banner graphic? just wondering... Jen does some really nice stuff and I work with a girl in Florida who does some really great stuff and she does a lot of animated gifs that are really cool. I like the way Educated Beyond My Intelligence did her banner with the stripes and then I layered the text on top of it... cool stuff.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at April 03, 2004 10:11 PM (JxHpA)

4 Should we suggest to Pixy that he move Little Mr. Mahatma over here?

Posted by: triticale at April 04, 2004 01:26 AM (OZJOx)

5 No harm in experimenting -- as long as you save a copy first! Then, if it blows up, no harm done.

Posted by: Ith at April 05, 2004 07:06 PM (yriZm)

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