Just another test

This is another test
to see if Blogger mails me once it's published.

Mail me when you publish...

Latest experiment: I've set the Settings/Email to mail my blog to me when this publishes. Then I only need to open the webmail and can do everything from there .

Line breaks

So far so good. The
coding works. I get Verdana small size. Now let's see if I can avoid
those strange line splits. Perhaps this is determined just by the size
of the screen in gmail. We'll give it a shot like this.

With a bit of luck, this should work.

Second attempt

This is an experiment
in emailing posts. I want to see if it will work if I include the text
size coding with the mail.

Try again.

This should be Verdana small but it doesn't look like it to me...

Testing font size

Is this in Verdana small? If I type quite a bit more it might be easier to see. It certainly doesn't look like Verdana small from here.

Pre-set?

So if I start here it'll be small?

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Change your colours!

I've used the Minima Black template from Blogger - virtually the same basic coding as the Minima template.

Webmonkey colours
For the colours, I went via google to Webmonkey's colour page: Color codes

Then I cut and pasted the codes I wanted into the relevant part of the template:

Body text
body {
background:#fff;
margin:0;
padding:40px 20px;
font:x-small "Trebuchet MS",Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;
text-align:center;
color:#000066; [Replace the code with the one you want. Remember the hash sign at the beginning and the semi-colon at the end. If you miss that out it just shows grey]
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
}

Links - the way they appear in the text before you've opened them
a:link {
color:#0000CC; [Replace code]
text-decoration:none;
}

Links - the way they look once you've opened them
a:visited {
color:#660099; [Replace code. Check if the colour still looks OK with the body text.]
text-decoration:none;
}

Links - the way they look for the few moments when the cursor moves over them
a:hover {
color:#FF9900; [Replace code. Great place for that vile pink or green!
text-decoration:underline;
}

Main blog title
#blog-title {
margin:5px 5px 0;
padding:20px 20px .25em;
border:1px solid #222;
border-width:1px 1px 0;
font-size:200%;
line-height:1.2em;
color:#CC6600; [Replace code]
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
}

Main blog title as it appears on the Comments page
[I'd never noticed that it changed...]

#blog-title a {
color:#CC6600; [Replace code. Remember the hash and the semi-colon...]
text-decoration:none;
}

Main blog title as it appears on the comments page when you pass cursor over it
[Never noticed that either..]

#blog-title a:hover {
color:#FFCC00; [Replace code]
}

Text under the Main Blog title
In my case: PICCADILLY - the weblog with a changing title. A Brit adrift etc. etc...

#description {
margin:0 5px 5px;
padding:0 20px 20px;
border:1px solid #222;
border-width:0 1px 1px;
font:78%/1.4em "Trebuchet MS",Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
color:#999900; [Replace code]
}

Headings - including the date line, ' About me', ' Previous posts', ' Archive' etc.

h2 {
margin:1.5em 0 .75em;
font:bold 60%/1.4em "Trebuchet MS",Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
color:#663399; [Replace code]
}

Post titles - the headline on each new post

Under 'Posts' - which follows on after ' Headings':

post-title {
margin:.25em 0 0;
padding:0 0 4px;
font-size:120%; [This is where you can reduce the size of the headlines if you want to]

line-height:1.4em;
color:#CC9900; [Replace code]

Post title what? Any ideas?

.post-title a {
text-decoration:none;
color:#ad9; [?}

t-title a:hover {
color:#fff; [?]
}

Comments

Haven't tried this yet but presume it determines the colour of the comments people write. Should I have you all writing in bright pink? Hmmm.....

Under ' Comments' -

#comments h4 {
margin:1em 0;
font:bold 78%/1.6em "Trebuchet MS",Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
color:#FF6600;
}

Sidebar - colour of the text under your name and location

Like, ' Read my blog. My '100 things about me' list has got stuck, like its creator, at thirty-something... '

Last item under ' Sidebar Content':

#sidebar p {
color:#CC9900; [Replace code]
line-height:1.5em;
}

Profile - colour of your name and location

The original template doesn't actually give you a colour but you can add one:

Under 'Profile' - which follows on from 'Sidebar Content':

.profile-data {
margin:0;
font:bold 78%/1.6em "Trebuchet MS",Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.1em;
color:#993366; [Add this whole line, replacing the code with the one you want]
}

And that's it. I haven't bothered changing the colour of lines but you'll find there's opportunity to do that in the relevant bits of the template.

ENJOY!

What colour is this new post?

Just testing, testing, testing. Pity you can't set the text to default on Verdana....

Just testing out the template, that's all

The real blog is at http://picc.blogspot.com