Do not
use any type of metal spoon or bowl for mixing.
DO NOT refrigerate. When air gets
in the bag, let it out. It is normal for
the bag to rise and ferment.
Day 1 –
Do nothing. This is the day your bag was
started.
Day 2 –
Mash the bag.
Day 3
- Mash the bag.
Day 4
- Mash the bag.
Day 5
- Add to the bag: 1 cup all-purpose flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Mash the bag.
Day 6 –
Mash the bag.
Day 7
- Mash the bag.
Day 8
- Mash the bag.
Day 9
– Mash the bag.
Day 10
– Follow the instructions below.
1. Pour the entire contents of the bag into
a NON-METAL bowl.
2. Add 1½ cups all-purpose flour, 1 cup
sugar and 1½ cups milk. Mix with NON-METAL spoon. This will be lumpy.
3. Measure out 4 separate batters (1 cup
each) into 4 one-gallon Ziploc bags. Keep 1 starter bag for yourself and give 3
to friends along with copies of this recipe.
4. Note:
If you keep a starter bag, you will be baking every 10 days. The bread is VERY good and makes a great
gift. Only the Amish know how to make
the original “starter” so if you give your starter away, you will have to wait
until someone gives you a starter back.
Baking Instructions
Preheat
oven to 325. Grease 2 large loaf pans or
1 Bundt pan.
Add to
the remaining batter in the bowl: 3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 2 cups all-purpose
flour, 1 cup oil, ½ cup milk, 2 small boxes instant vanilla pudding, 1 ½ tsp.
baking powder, ½ tsp. salt, ½ tsp. cinnamon, ½ tsp. vanilla, ½ tsp. baking
soda.
In a
separate bowl, mix ½ cup sugar and ½ tsp. cinnamon. Use half the mixture to coat the pan(s).
Pour
the batter into the pan(s) and sprinkle the top with the remaining sugar
mixture. Bake 50 to 60 minutes.
Ahhhhh! AI see you got the hang of the Gadgets, Annette. Not only do you now have your Blog List, but you also finally got around to putting your signature on your new Blog with Shelly and Hula Girl.
ReplyDeleteAnnette, if you want to install Smilies & Images Inserting capability to your Blog, here is the Procedure that I used to do it on my Blog. This one is very simple compared to the Procedure and Code amount required in installing my Comments Boxes MyOpera-izing.
http://helplogger.blogspot.com/2012/03/add-videosimages-in-bloggerblogspot.html
Look it over and let me know if you have any questions before you attempt it.
One thing for sure, it is recommended that you FIRST Back Up your Blog's Template so that in case something ever goes wrong, you can always reinstall your BackUp of your Template to fix a mess.
To Back Up your Blog's Template:
Click on "Design" up in your Blogger Toolbar.
Click on the Grey "Backup / Restore" Button up on the upper right.
And it'll be self-explanatory from there.
Once you install those 3 lines of JavaScript, then you can add a TEXT Gadget to your Sidebar so that you can Copy & Paste the Smilies URLs from my Smilies Palette so that you can have them handy.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Annette, just in case you didn't know and were interested ...
ReplyDeleteYou CAN change the Font Color of the Gadget Titles and the Gadget Text.
I will work on Smilies the first chance I get. I worked all weekend and am so brain dead I'm afraid everything will go wrong if I attempt it at this time.
ReplyDeleteWell, take your time, Annette. No rush.
ReplyDeleteSo you're no longer in jury duty? Weren't you going to be in it until January the somethingth?
My jury duty was canceled that Friday. There were 4 groups of us in the auditorium that morning. First one group was let go before us. We were all jealous, "MAN! Why couldn't WE have been in that group?" But, then the group I was in was also let go right after that. I don't know about the last 2 groups.
The good thing was that we were informed that since we did make the effort and DID make it there, that did count as having served. So, we don't have to go / serve within the next year and a half. They said if they do send us a questionnaire before then, just call them up and they'll cancel it.
Hmmm??? The last time I got called was wayyy back in around 1997 or so. Back then it used to be that you could only be called once within 24 months. And now it's once within 18 months? What the frigg? I have to find a number to call to get a more precise number of months. Cuz the guy actually said either "about" or "approximately" a year and a half. I remember thinking, "Wait a minute. What the heck? We're in jury duty business here, legal territory here ... and you dare say 'about' or 'approximately'? What the ??? Aren't we supposed to get a precise amount of months here?"
And one of my brothers-in-law had jury duty today. I just called my sister and she said my brother-in-law was dismissed there in the lobby. He didn't even make it into the auditorium. I don't know for certain, but if I had to guess, I don't think that one will count as having served. I THINK only if you actually make it into the auditorium it counts as having served.
ReplyDeleteI am still on Jury Duty until mid January 2014. Here you have to serve for a "Term" and this Term is October 28, 2013-Jan. 13, 2014. I have to call and listen to a recorded message or check the website to find out if my panel (8) has to report. Today was the day I had to check the website and it said, "All jurors check the website Monday, Nov. 25, after 5:00 p.m. for your next jury assignment." So far, I have served on one criminal case.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! A TERM? It's definitely different than here then. So whenever they call y'all there, it's for a Mini Jury Tour ... a batch of assignments. Doh!
ReplyDeleteSo when you're through with this Mini Jury Tour, how many months before they can summon you again for another Jury Mission? Or can they drag you in EVERY year there if they so wish?
Assignment ... your next assignment ...
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me of Mission Impossible and Charlie's Angels. LOL
I cannot be called for Jury Duty again until October 2015. They now pull names from the Drivers License Database to summon people for Jury Duty here. They said people weren't registering to vote because they didn't want to be summoned. Now, if you possess a valid TN DL, you can, and eventually will, be summoned.
ReplyDeleteOh, so a 24 months Staying Off Yer Back period then.
ReplyDeleteHere they deny deny deny as to where they get and don't get names from for jury duty. While the Driver's License database is definitely a possibility, I think a strong possibility is also ANY County activity in which you engage. Like getting the sticker for your vehicle license plates.
Then there's the scenario that I find way too coincidental as to how I probably got chosen this time around. I had reported some neighbors to the COUNTY Health Department for having a mini landfill in their rented property. Lo & behold, 3 days later I had a Jury Questionnaire in my mail. Coincidence? I think NOT.
Yeah! Maybe my having to serve is a result of my October 3rd wreck. I get hit, then a couple of weeks later, I get a Jury Duty Summons.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I had to report the County Clerk told us we were summoned because we possessed a valid TN Drivers License and it was our Civic DUT Y to serve! We were then placed on panels.
When my panel had to report, she (County Clerk) proceeded to tell us we were quarantined. Guards were placed on the doors to keep us in and ALL others out. At the beginning of the day, we were laughing and joking that we were being treated worse than prisoners. Ten hours later, it was NO laughing matter. I was glad to leave and hope I NEVER have to serve again.
But, what I don't get is your panel of 8 cannot possibly ALL be suited for all cases they assign y'all to during that term.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, with all of y'all having different lives, personalities, experiences, Etc. there will be reasons for why, for example ... someone in the panel won't be able to be unbiased in a divorce case. Someone else won't be able to be unbiased in a child abuse case and so on and so forth.
For example, way back in the previous jury duty to which I had been summoned in the late 90s, it was a theft case. When they asked if there was ANY reason why any of us felt we couldn't / shouldn't be on the panel, we'd better speak up now. I spoke up and said that I couldn't be unbiased in a theft case because I had an ax to grind with thieves. I elaborated that with having been the victim of 4 car stereo equipment thefts and one apartment theft, you could say I wanted someone to pay. I wanted to make an example out of a thief. And that if I smelled blood in that theft case, I was gonna jump on that and send the guy up the river for the maximum amount of years.
I forget the actual wording that I used, but that was definitely the message I conveyed. You can bet that at the very least, the Defense Attorney didn't want me on the panel. Not surprisingly I wasn't selected.
But, yeah, unless I'm misunderstanding how your Jury Duty TERM works over there, I can't see the SAME 8 panel members ALL being able to serve on different types of cases without there always being someone who can't be open-minded and unbiased for whatever reason.
BTW, Annette, after conducting all my Blog experiments / tests yesterday, I decided to stay there at my suntana511 version of my Suntana's Blog Trek. That one appears to be working fine.
ReplyDeleteI only went ahead and deleted the Sub-Blog --- SuntanaLab
That one I no longer had any confidence in. I had already declared it FUBARed.
I did try the Blog Template Switcheroo idea on my Suntana210 Blog last night and it did smack out the furball stuck in its throat that was preventing me from changing Fonts, Font Colors, Font Sizes, Etc.
So, theoretically I COULD have then engaged in converting that Blog into my new main Blog. But, there were 2 things that deterred me from doing that.
(1) My Smilies URL Palette, as simplistic as it might appear, is actually very tedious and very difficult to create. You see ... the Text Gadget that I use doesn't have a Font and Font Size Button. It only has Bold, Italics, Font Color, Quotes and whatever else. Needless to say, even if I format all that text in MS Word, it doesn't transfer when I paste it into the Text Gadget. And once I paste it into the Text Gadget, it takes on a mind of its own. If it doesn't paste as Arial 13px font, Wooooooo! I'm gonna be in it for the long haul with wrestling with that task. Giving Red & Bold format to the Smilies names is not a cake walk either what with a ton of Smilies.
(2) Getting the Mobile View set correctly took 45 minutes!!! Well, actually the task itself is a piece of cake and is not what takes 45 minutes. What the deal turned out to be is that by trial & error, I found out that I can't change the Mobile Settings with my OLD Opera 11.52. It took me using Firefox to be able to change the Mobile Settings. The trouble is, Firefox has never been Dial Up-friendly. It took Firefox 45 friggin' minutes to be able to load my Blog and then my Dashboard so as to be able to change the Mobile Settings. Cuz I have found out that if I don't wait until every cotton-picking last pixel is loaded when making Blog Template changes ... things won't work.
So yeah, I had no desire to again have Firefox take 45 minutes to get around to being able to change the Mobile Settings. So, I just decided ... the heck with it. Suntana511 it is then.
Needless to say, Annette, what with me having performed a Windows Reinstall on my computer yesterday and testing and wrestling with my Blogs, I didn't even remotely get a chance to work on your Header.
ReplyDeleteOh and unfortunately, the Windows Reinstall did not fix the BSOD / Random Reboots problem. And I installed 4 Gig of new memory the other day and that didn't fix it either. MAN! What a waste of money.
ReplyDeleteI am on Panel 8. They assigned all of us to panels of 6. I am not sure exactly how many panels there are, but I'm positive it's at least 20. Two of my co-workers were also called to serve. One is on Panel 3 and the other is on Panel 18. They call 7 panels to report at a time, pick 14 individuals, and release the rest.
ReplyDeleteI don't have to call or check the website again until December 3rd.
I'm happy to hear you decided to keep your suntana511 blog and the template change worked for your other one. At least we can use that to fix our blogs if we mess them up too bad. Hopefully, the powers at be here will take a look at how MyOpera Blogs work and fix a few things here...SOON. I am still not happy with the notifications. I don't have a problem checking my blog for new comments, but I have to check gmail to be notified of new comments on blogs I've visited and made comments on, then open that blog in another tab to make a new comment. Is that how you are getting your notifications?
ReplyDeleteNnnnggg, no, Annette, that's not how I'm getting notifications. While I agree that our current system of notifications is not remotely as good as MyOpera's, my version here is not as inefficient as what your version appears to be.
ReplyDeleteI don't have to deal with gmail at all.
Refresh my memory. What Browser are you using? Cuz IF you were to be using Opera, there's no reason why you shouldn't be getting your notifications in the same manner as me.
I of course use Opera Browser. And when I subscribe to the Comments of Blogs, I select Opera Mail as the Provider of the Feeds. But, just because it's "Opera Mail," that doesn't mean I have to go into my MyOpera Mail to check for Feeds.
Periodically, a little Popup will pop up over on the bottom right of my screen informing me of Feeds. I'll then just open the Left Panel in my Opera Browser and click on the little Blue Envelope and the Subscription Feeds will be there.
Granted, yeah, when opening a Feed and when wanting to check it out to actually reply to it, it will be in another Tab. But, bottom line, I don't have to mess around with actually going into gmail, MyOpera Mail or ANY mail. The Feeds will always be there quickly in my Opera Left Panel for anytime that I want to see them.
ReplyDeleteWhen I've read them and replied to them if need be, I then just click on "Delete Permanently."
NOW ... come March 1, 2014 when MyOpera Mail is no more, I'll obviously have to select some other Provider for the Feeds. I don't know whether that will be my AOL Mail or gmail or what. And since neither of those is Opera brand, I have no idea at this time whether the Feeds will appear in my Opera Browser Left Panel like right now.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope they still do appear automatically when that time comes and that I don't have to switch to having to manually coondog them elsewhere other than in my Opera Browser Left Panel.
ReplyDeleteI got excited when I first started reading your Texas Sized Comments that all I would have to do was download the Opera Browser onto this laptop...Then I read on to see that MyOpera Email would be going with MyOpera, so I guess I'll just have to learn to deal with this setup.
ReplyDeleteBTW, will the Opera Browser disappear also? If not, I may download it anyway. And I am using the IE Browser. I will have to check to see if I can get my feeds the way you do in the Opera Browser.
I saved gmail in my favorites, so going into it is not a really big thing because it opens up automatically as I have allowed it to save the password. It WILL let me read the comments made, but it WILL NOT take me directly to the blog the comment was made on. I still have to do that manually.
As to whether Opera Browser will disappear also?
ReplyDeleteDepending on your definition of "Opera Browser," it might ALREADY be GONE.
The Opera 12 series was the last to use the REAL connection to the true, genuine Opera ... their proprietary Presto Browser Engine.
After that, Opera sold out, threw in the towel, waved the white flag, cried uncle and switched over to using the Webkit Browser Engine. So, the Opera Browser that exists now is a hybrid ... a Google Chrome clone. It has the body of Opera ... and the engine of Google Chrome.
Yadi Yadi Yada ... come March 1, 2014 ... no, Opera Browser will NOT cease to work. If you have old Opera Browser versions like the 11.52 and 11.64 that I use, they'll still work. And the NEW Webkit / Google Chrome versions will also still work.
It's just the MyOpera Community and MyOpera Mail that will POOF!
I tried Opera 17 this past week. You see, Blogger definitely informed me from the get go that it detected an "unsupported Browser" and that thus, unusual, weird behavior could result. So, I theorized ... if Blogger is a Google division and Opera 17 is now Google Chrome-powered, MAYBE accessing and navigating my Blogger Blog will be quicker and more stable with Opera 17.
ReplyDeleteVerdict? At least on my Dial Up Internet, Opera 17 was a Piece of Shi™. Out of the typical websites that I browse, it could bring up MyOpera and FileHippo fine. But, it couldn't bring up the avast Forums or MajorGeeks. It threw some DNS Errors.
And while it could bring up my Blogger Blog, when I went into the Dashboard area, the little thumbnails for the Live on Blog and Mobile View could not be displayed.
And those were just the few sites that I tried before kicking it to the curb. No telling how many more of my sites it wouldn't have been able to bring up. I can't speak for how it would or wouldn't work on High Speed Internet.
I downloaded the Opera Browser and even with my High Speed Internet it's still " a Piece of Shi™." It will not display the clock or the Grinch Youtube video on my MyOpera page. In their places are grey boxes that say, "This plug-in is not supported.", when I scroll over them. These two items appear when I bring the same site up using my IE Browser.
ReplyDeleteI will give it a day or two and see if the Opera Browser may need updating to work correctly. If not, and it doesn't start showing everything it should, I will kick it to the curb also.
I guess it's possible that that Opera 17 needs some Settings tweaks. But, I don't have the patience to mess with it because in general I don't like it because it has that infamous Google Chrome and Firefox style ... that style of not displaying anything until it has just about loaded ALL the data it needs to render a page.
ReplyDeleteI do not like one bit the fact that neither Google Chrome or Firefox have an equivalent of Opera's Extended / Detailed Progress Bar. I have always loved Opera's Extended Progress Bar at the bottom of the page. It gives you a REAL idea / picture of whether a page's loading is really progressing at a normal speed, a decent speed or is crawling at a snail's pace and needs to be aborted.
Google Chrome and Firefox only have that stupid little circling indication thing that supposedly indicates that a page is loading. But, it doesn't give you the slightest clue as to whether that means it's loading normally ... or at 10 bits per second.
Exhibit A: That loading of my Blogger Blog and its Dashboard that took Firefox 45 Fugging minutes to finish!!! WTF? Its vague, useless circling indicator indicated that the loading was taking place. But, at what freakin' pace? With Opera I would have known that the loading was going down at wayyy too slow a pace.
I would have of course never have given ANY Browser 45 minutes to do anything. In this case though, I had to confirm or disprove my theory as to whether my old Opera 11.52 was the culprit of not being able to change the Mobile View Settings ... and that the much newer Firefox would be able to allow me to change the Mobile View Settings.
My hunch was right albeit I had to spend 45 minutes of my life allowing the pathetically slow Firefox to seemingly swim through quicksand to prove my theory.
Oh well, I just 86ed the Opera Browser. The only reason I downloaded it on my other computers was to use Tamil's Smilies in MyOpera. I already have IE, Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox on this laptop. There is no need for me to have the Opera Browser too.
ReplyDeletePlease tell me you worked out, had lunch, took a shower....SOMETHING...ANYTHING, while waiting 45 minutes for your BlogSpot blog to load.
I can't remember what exactly I did during those 45 minutes that Firefox held my computer hostage, but I'm guessing possibly a workout might have been the case since it was around that time.
ReplyDeleteHave you worked on that certain top secret project involving Smilies?
I am going to do that over my Christmas break. You may want to take a look at the sites I found. They don't work like the ones in MyOpera, but they are in the New Comment Box.
ReplyDeleteThis site has the Smilies in the New Comment Box. You have to click the Show Emoticons button for the Smilies to show. Then you have to copy and paste the grey symbols beside the Smilies.
http://kolobok-emoticons.blogspot.com/2012/04/smileys.html?showComment=1386113483626#c5974576287365727197
This site shows you how to add the Smilies to your BlogSpot blog.
http://helplogger.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-add-emoticonssmileys-in-blogger.html
I want to have the time to compare this javascript to the one we use for Tamil's Smilies. I think it may be possible to merge the two javascripts and have the Smilies work the same here as they do in MyOpera. Let me know what you think if you take the time to look at them.
I already got those Kolobok Emoticons working at SuntanaStudio. However, there is no Smilies Palette like I thought would display.
ReplyDeleteYou know ... it just dawned on me that I haven't mentioned Brenda or Vanessa Marcil in quite a while. Heh Heh Heh!
ReplyDeleteUh Oh! I can't insert the RUN Emoticon. LOL
You can copy the code beside those smilies, post them on BlogSpot blogs and they will display. g-) Did you follow all the steps to have the Smilies Palette display on your blog? You have to read through all those comments because the admin left out some things and for whatever reason he/she did not edit the post with the proper procedure. c-)
ReplyDeleteWhen I get my smilies working here, I'm gonna fish smack ya for that Brenda/Vanessa/plastic surgery face comment! b-(
The Emoticons to which you put the code in your comment aren't displaying, Annette.
ReplyDeleteNah, at this time I haven't taken the time to follow through the comments in that site to fix whatever screwups that guy made.
I had been busy going through my MyOpera Blog Archive to see what all posts I could delete so as to not have to FIX as many posts. I actually did delete several. And I don't think I'm finished deleting. At this instant, before finishing up that posts deleting task, a loose count indicates that there are only 47 more posts to fix and publish at my Blogger Blog. It's possible I could cultivate that down to only 40 more posts to fix before this weekend is over.
However, a lot of my Saturday will be spoken for as for starters, I'll be going to a birthday party for an uncle at 11:00AM. After that, I think my Dad and I are going to do a little bit of work on the water heater of my youngest sister.
ReplyDeleteSo, I'm estimating I'll probably get back to Suntana's Blog Trek HQ at around 4:00PM.
The Emoticons are showing on my computer Sunny. I just tried to follow through with the fixes to have the Smilies show above the New Comment Box, but the fixes do not work! Maybe you were here when I was ATTEMPTING to Edit HTML.
ReplyDeleteAhhh, the Fish Smack ... a trip down memory lane. Miss it.
ReplyDeleteActually, I figured that after my Brenda / Vanessa Marcil mentioning stunt, you could conceivably pull out all the stops and without batting an eyelash ... toss out The Finger Emoticon. Yikes!
Ahhh, I do see the Emoticons now, Annette.
ReplyDeleteOoooooo! I love the [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h4yNmhdKUVU/UTIwUKpvVOI/AAAAAAAABCY/B0FEZVRGHe4/s1600/threaten.gif[/img] Emoticon. As soon as I saw it yesterday, I KNEW I needed and had to have that one in my arsenal.
O --- Kay, I see we can't just insert the Emoticon URL enclosed in the img Start Tag and /img End Tag like in my Blog. Doh!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, yeah, the "Threaten" Emoticon is awesome! LOL
Oh, BTW, Annette, since we both concurred that Opera 17 was a piece of Shi™, I embarked on trying out Opera 12.16 yesterday. I'm still using it right now. You might want to give it a whirl.
ReplyDeleteIn contrast to the piece of Shi™ Opera 17, which has the Webkit / Google Chrome Browser Engine ... Opera 12.16 is the last Opera to have still used the genuine Opera proprietary Presto Browser Engine. So, it is NOT the piece of Shi™ that Opera 17 is.
Depending on what site I was trying to bring up and what I was doing, I actually saw some definitely noticeable FASTER loading speeds than any Opera I have ever used before. I'll keep up with my test drive. Who knows? It could become my new Opera version of choice.
Of course, there IS the possibility that on YOUR system it could turn out to dare totally suck for whatever reason.
Hope you had a nice time at your uncles birthday party. I know you had plenty of good food!
ReplyDeleteThe "Threaten" Emoticon is the worst I can throw your way at the present time, but I still plan to work on this smilie thang during Christmas Break...so be forewarned.
Nnnnggg, well, the food was plentiful and delicious. But, as my parents and I would later discuss, there WERE 2 things that were stupid, ridiculous and out of line.
ReplyDelete(1) Okay, keep in mind, the original premise, purpose of the party was that it was supposed to be a Birthday Party for one of my uncles. You know ... as in it should have been HIS day and HIS day only. Right?
Well, somehow the party got morphed into being a mass Birthday Party for all those in attendance whose birthday was in November and December. So, it ended up being a BULK Birthday Party for my uncle, 3 cousins AND someone else whom I'll mention in item # 2.
So, when we were singing Happy Birthday, it was ...
Happy Birthday dear "everybody" or "everyone."
Tacky Tacky Tacky!
(2) Then one of my aunts surprises us by also getting up there in the BULK group of birthday havers. Someone asked why she was up there. She said to represent her husband ... her deceased husband whose birthday was in either November or December.
O --- Kay. No one was gonna dare tell her that was not exactly with the flow of things.
So, then after Happy Birthday was sung, my aunt starts crying a little bit. That left an awkward silence and an awkward feeling among everyone. Another one of my aunts then added to the already awkwardness and out of line-ness by asking for a moment of silence.
ReplyDeleteUhhhhh, excuse me! Wasn't this supposed to have been a HAPPY Birthday party for that other uncle? HAPPY is in not awkward, not an aunt crying, not a moment of silence requested and not having had his birthday BULK hijacked? Sheesh!
I mean, nothing against my deceased uncle. But, even there at the party, it was explained that the reason an impromptu Birthday Party was whipped up for this particular uncle on this year was because:
(1) He does a lot of Handyman work for them throughout the year. They wanted to show their appreciation.
(2) Last year, he went out by HIMSELF to some restaurant to celebrate his birthday because even his wife didn't want to go.
Sooo, with those 2 reasons for throwing him a Birthday Party ... why why WHY was his Birthday Party hijacked?
Annette, check your Yahoo Mail. I sent you a SunnyExpress with your possible new Header.
ReplyDeleteOh, I could just cry for your uncle. I don't know which is worse...having to go out by himself on his last birthday because his wife CHOSE NOT to help him celebrate OR having to attend a community birthday party which included dead people, crying people, and an AKWARD moment of silence.
ReplyDeleteI got the new beach header and it's up. Thank you! Now that I have two beach headers, I can switch things up every once in a while.
ReplyDeleteA Community Birthday Party ... Hah Hah Hah! I didn't think of that one.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't know what was up with his wife, why she just up and didn't care to accompany him in his going out to celebrate last year. How odd.
Check your Yahoo Mail again, Annette.
ReplyDeleteYou have another SunnyExpress.
Hmmm??? We'll have to figure out why on your Blog, the Headers don't automatically get centered. On my Blog, the 920px wide Header is automatically centered.
I don't know if maybe on this Template that you're using ... maybe a 960px wide Header is allowed since it appears to be aligned on the Left with that Transparent White Foreground. If not, we'll have to find some CSS Code to center it.
I think I saw some CSS Code to do that on this Blog to which Dasha gave me the link. It's in Spanish, but the woman whose Blog it is appears to know a lot about Blogger Blogs. Her Blog is all about Blogger Tips, Tutorials & Stuff.
As I type this, I am awaiting a reply on the question that I tossed her about how to modify Blogger Blogs so that the comments change to a new page every 50 comments instead of the seemingly 1 million comments it takes by default.
Now ... there's no guarantee that she'll know how to fix that. But, I had to take a chance.
As an experiment to confirm or disprove my hunch ... you might try whipping up a quick Header that is 960 x 235px to see if your current template will accept it without automatically resizing it DOWN to where it aligns on the Right inwardly like it does now.
ReplyDeleteCuz from what I believe I've seen ... different templates have different default Blog Widths and Sidebar Widths. So maybe different templates do allow for Headers WIDER than the typical 920px with which we've used to.
Sunny, I sent you my Header CSS to your MyOpera email. I will try to whip up that header tomorrow. My allergies are giving me a fit. I am going to make me a cup of Sleepytime tea and go to bed after I've drank it.
ReplyDeleteGood News ... and Bad News.
ReplyDeleteThe Good News is that as you can see over in my SuntanaStudio Blog, I found out today that actually, contrary to the conclusion to which I had come early in my BlogSpot stint, there is NO restriction to the Header Height.
I slapped my 380px high Halloween Header in there today and it took it without it doing any automatic downsizing.
I realized today that all you have to do is simply make certain the Layout dimensions ARE at 960px for the total Blog Width and 310px for the Sidebar Width. Cuz when we move around between templates, the dimensions have a habit of subtly changing. Then simply don't check the box to Resize to Fit.
The Bad News is that I tried at least 3 CSS tricks to try and CENTER the Header and the Header didn't budge so much as a friggin' pixel. I tried adding "top center" to the Header CSS like in my MyOpera CSS Code and no dice. I tried the "padding-left" approach and the "margin-left" approach and neither worked. Doh! Grrrrrrrrrrr!
I don't know. Maybe that's just the way the Header is positioned on this template.
Good News / Bad News: The Sequel
ReplyDeleteThe Good News is that I finally found out over in the Blogger Help Forums what the culprit was for destroying the quality of the Blogger Header images. Remember I even changed from my original Header becaused it was sooo washed out and looked like crap. Then I had to change from 72.009 pixels per inch Resolution to 100 pixels per inch Resolution to manage to yield better results.
Well, the culprit was the ultimate irony. Apparently there is this Google + feature, the Image Enhancer ... which is SUPPOSED to well, enhance images. It is enabled by default.
I guess it possibly works OK on images that have NOT been enhanced by the User. The problem comes when one has already enhanced images like with Photoshop or whatever other Apps. In those cases, I guess a situation of Enhancement Overload develops and the result is a Piece of Shi™.
The fix is to disable the Image Enhancer feature.
That is where the Bad News comes in. That stupid Image Enhancer feature is over in Google +. I don't even friggin' know for sure whether I even have a Google + account.
So, I need to pick your brain, Annette. Can you help me verify whether I do have a Google + account? And can you check in your Google + account to see where the blazes that Image Enhancer setting is?
I did some Googling and found a link that supposedly took me to the Google + settings. On my first shot, I was informed by a message that my Browser (Opera 11.64) was too old and thus not supported to even display the settings. So, I tried my Opera 12.16. Ehhh, that really just got rid of the message, but I still saw no inkling of any settings.
Sunny, in order to disable the Image Enhancer Feature, go to your Blogger Dashboard. In the upper right hand corner, there is a small gray arrow beside your avatar. Click on it. It will open up a little box. Click on Account.
DeleteOn the right hand side of that page, underneath your avatar, click on Edit your profile.
On the left hand side of that page, hover over the Profile button and click on Photos in the pull down menu.
Click on any one of your photos on that page. The photo will open up inside a black box. At the top of that black box, click on More. In the drop down menu of More, hover over Auto Enhance and you will see three choices...Normal, High, and Off.
Oh, that Mt. Everest of Code that you E-mailed me won't be necessary, Annette. As you can now see over at SuntanaStudio, the mystery has been solved.
ReplyDeleteMy hunch WAS right. Apparently it IS just a simple case of this template that you're using taking a 960px Wide Header.
I slapped up a quick 960px Wide Header and it happily displayed it filling out the entire 960px wide width.
I slapped it up here! y-)
DeleteDo you take anything like Zyrtec or Claritin for your allergies, Annette?
ReplyDeleteI normally take Allegra when I am having allergy problems. It doesn't seem to work this time.
DeleteHeyyyyy! You slapped it up here! Alright! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteThis taller version of the Header provided a more natural place for the Blog title. And it looks much better with that tall Palm tree not being chopped off like before with the shorter Header.
Hey, I have a plot, a storyline, a script for Tom Cruise's next Mission Impossible sequel. I'll just tell the Producers about how my experience went yesterday with my trying to disable that blasted Image Destroyer masquerading as an Image Enhancer on Blogger.
ReplyDeleteI'll start off by saying that I used 5 ... that's FIVE freakin' Browsers and have yet to be able to get in to disable that useless sucker.
I started off with my Opera 11.64. Well, while not everything matched exactly as where your instructions said it be, I did manage to make it to the last step where I was supposed to HOVER over the Profile Button.
ReplyDeleteHowever, absolutely NOTHING would happen when I hovered over that Button. And nothing would happen when I clicked on it.
I then tried Opera 12.16. Certain things displayed differently, but I wasn't even able to make to to that Profile Button this time around.
I tried the absolute latest Firefox. Ehhh, I didn't get very far at all. I very quickly got an error, I believe when barely trying to access the Account Settings. I tried several more times, but got the same error. I had even set the Firewall to allow Firefox through, but no dice. The same error kept displaying.
ReplyDeleteI then tried Chrome. That was the worst of all. I got NOWHERE. Chrome just plain ole doesn't work on my system AT ALL! I get an error immediately when trying to bring up ANYTHING. I remembered that that's how it's always been. Who knows what Setting has to be tweaked or what exactly Chrome doesn't like in my system, but it is 100% useless.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it has something to do with that since it has to go through my AOL as my ISP ... my AOL actually works with IE in the background ... and I only have IE7 right now. Maybe Chrome doesn't work with IE7 in the equation. Maybe it needs at the very least IE8.
And I certainly don't have all the Windows Updates installed in my Windows. So there too, maybe something is missing, which causes Chrome not to cooperate.
I then tried Opera 18. Ehhh, I got about the same results as with Opera 12.16.
ReplyDeleteSo yeah ... Mission Impossible.
I think I'll have to wait until I have access to my sister's or my niece's High Speed Internet. I THINK I'll be able to manage to disable that dead weight Blogger Image Enhancer with their computers.
I say this because I know that on my sister's computer I HAVE used Google Chrome and Firefox without a problem. That computer has Windows XP ... unlike the questionable Windows VISTA that is in my system.
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help rid you of that Awful Image Enhancer.
ReplyDeleteIt's not out of the question that I might have to take you up on that offer, Annette.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow Monday might be the last ditch effort on my end. I might have an opportunity to use my sister's High Speed Internet tomorrow.
For sure I WILL be going over there. I just don't know if I'll be able to sneak in a bit of computer usage time. It's that I'm taking my parents over there where we'll pick up my niece after school and then take her to her debut Violin Recital.
So, it'll depend on what time we get there vs. what time my niece says she has to be over at the school.
So, if I do get some time to use her computer and execute the Google + Image Destroyer feature removal successfully, then problem solved. However, if the mission is a status quo failure, then I might have to toss you Plan B.
ReplyDeleteIt's a quick fix if you have access to High Speed Internet. If you don't have a chance to use your sister's then toss me your Plan B and I'll be glad to help.
ReplyDeleteI only work 4 more days and then I'll be free to work on BlogSpot Smilies. I've already spent quite a bit of time trying to insert Kolobok Emoticons, so I'm a little discouraged, but I'm determined to make them work.
Also, I have finally replaced my Grand Cherokee Laredo Jeep. I bought a really nice and clean, older, low mileage, garage kept Grand Cherokee Limited Jeep from one of the ladies who retired a few months ago from where I work. I test drove some 2013's and 2014's, but didn't like them or their prices.
Let me ask this. I know you wrote the detailed steps on how to Jason Morgan-like make the worse than useless Image Destroyer disappear. But, have you actually done it on your Blog? If so, which Browser did you use? Almost assuredly not Opera, right?
ReplyDeleteOkay, I think I asked you this before, but I don't think you answered it.
Would the fact that I have a Blogger Blog mean that I DO have a Google + account? I mean, is there any possibility that the reason I couldn't get into position to disable that Image Destroyer with 5 Browsers ... was because I don't really have a Google + account?
I do seem to see a page that appears to be my Profile page although I of course have SQUAT in all the categories. Is there any sure fire way to confirm / verify that I do have enough of a Google + account so as to be able to disable that useless feature once I get my hands on my sister's High Speed Internet?
Alright! You got yersef another Jeep! Can't have you running around without a Jeep. Can't be 100% Annette without a Jeep. It'd be about like a Double Cheeseburger without the 2 meat patties. LOL
ReplyDeleteIf someone can make those Kolobok Emoticons work, it's you, Annette. As I recall, it was you who had the patience to stick with that project of figuring out how to add more Emoticons to the Tamil Smilies.
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ReplyDeleteSpeaking of destroyer ...
ReplyDeleteThe Dallas Cowboys destroyed a 23-point halftime lead against the Green Bay Packers. They were winning at the half 26 - 3. Well, thanks to Chief Destroyer Supreme Tony Romo's 2 late Interceptions and the League's LAST Place Defense, the Cowboys lost by 1 point to the tune of something like 36 - 35.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr! X 10 to the 1000th Power.
As pathetic as they have been the past 3 weeks, they're actually still NOT out of the Playoff run ... thanks to the rest of their division being equally if not more pathetic.
Annette, Super Thanks for the steps on how to get rid of the Image Destroyer.
ReplyDeleteYour procedure worked! YES!
I did manage to have a little over an hour of computer usage time over at my sister's house this afternoon.
The High Speed Internet was what did the trick because I was using Opera 11.64 there as well ... and on Windows XP at that.
So, I take it that once you perform that procedure on ONE image ... that disables the Image Enhancer on any and ALL images after that ... PERIOD? It's not like you have to perform that procedure on all your existing images and on any and all images that you subsequently use, right?
I just read through all your comments, had the answers to your questions all ready to type, and then I get to the last comment you made to find you had already disabled the Image Enhancer.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your last question, YES, once you turn the Image Enhancer OFF it applies to all images...past, present, and future.
I hope I can get the Kolobok Emoticons to work. I don't really care for that format though. Once I do have them working, I intend to try some of Tamil's code so we will only have to click on the Smilie to insert it in the comment.
ReplyDeleteWhen I said I bought an older Jeep, I meant OLD. It's a 2000, but it looks and drives like a new one. I just hope no one plays bumper cars with me again!
ReplyDeleteMaybe while MyOpera and Tamil still exist, you should go and at least pick Tamil's brain. Ask him what the odds are of that JS Code being able to be modified to work on Blogger.
ReplyDeleteOf course, since that's actually not Tamil's Code, he's not going to get into some Sunny Novel style verbose analysis that's gonna give you some 50 or 60% head start on your project. He's way more likely to just go, "Nope. It can't be done. It's only for Opera Browser and MyOpera."
But, yeah, I concur. That format of all those symbols you'd have to memorize bites.
Great idea to ask Tamil. I wonder where he's blogging now? I noticed he's not been around MyOpera...at least not making comments lately.
ReplyDeleteOhhhhh! So by "older" you meant Dino category. LOL Don't worry. You won't hear any smack from me. My Isuzu Rodeo is a 1999. But, it's in very good condition. By the body you wouldn't remotely be able to tell it's 14 years old. You'd swear it was more along the lines of 3 to 5 years old.
ReplyDeleteIt's in much better condition than my previous vehicle, a 1987 GMC Jimmy was at around that same age. On that one, the at one time nice, awesome Apple Red paint was now a way faded Orange-like MESS.
Here you go ...
ReplyDeletehttp://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/formatting-tools-with-animated-smilies-in-my-opera-quick-reply
You can ask at the very place where it should be asked.
If he doesn't reply there, then maybe he has left the building.
I could be wrong, but I just don't see him moving to any other Blogging platform. But, who knows? We'll find out sometime between now and shutdown day whether Tamil does continue his Opera Blog elsewhere.
Just make sure that when you do get up to your neck deep into working with that Tamil Smilies Code ... have it be on a TEST Blog. You want to make sure that it's on an expendable Blog just in case you do FUBAR it like I did my SuntanaLab.
ReplyDeleteAnd just in case you hadn't done so yet, it is strongly-recommended that you back up the template that you're currently using.
ReplyDeleteBTW, regarding that problem with the HUGE Avatars that Teresa was having on my Blog? After I provided that guy on the Blogger Forum with all the pertinent Info on Teresa's phone, he informed me that the Android OS version was wayyy OLD. Teresa's phone has 2.3 and the latest version is 4.4. She was never able to figure out what version her Browser was. But, if her OS was definitely old, it's possible her Browser is also old.
ReplyDeleteSo, she's going to update her Mobile to the 4.4 Android version.
Interestingly enough, apparently this morning, Teresa was now seeing the Avatars normal size. That was before she did anything to her phone.
ReplyDeleteShe thought that maybe I had changed some setting on my Blog or something. Well, around that time that she started informing me of the problems she was having on my Blog ... that WAS around the time that I just happen to change my Mobile View Setting from Default to the Mini Desktop LOOK. So, it's possible that that helped her now see the Avatars normal size.
But, her ancient 2.3 Android OS had to have also been a contributor to the problem because Dasha and Dewi never had the problem.
Yes, I am the proud owner of a DINO! I love the fact that it's paid for...with money left over...and as nice as it was the day she bought it in 2000. And it has heated seats. Those sure come in handy on the cold mornings we've been having. I am even contemplating having the remote start installed with some of the money I have left over from my old Jeep.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness I did make a backup of my template. I had to use that backup already when I screwed mine up TRYING to install the Kolobok Emoticons. I plan to open up a test blog when I attempt it again.
ReplyDeleteToday WAS supposed to be my last day of work until January 2, 2014, but my boss talked me into working Saturday and Sunday. He wanted tomorrow also, but I told him I was going for a much anticipated massage.
The Blogger Blogs do seem to be more fragile / touchy when it comes to Pedal to the Metal experimentation.
DeleteIn over 5 years of pushing the envelope experimentation on MyOpera I never FUBARed one of my 2 Blogs. And in 1 month on Blogger, I trashed and nuked my SuntanaLab.
I will try contacting Tamil if/when I fail at getting the smilies to work. I clicked on everyone who commented on that page about those smilies working and didn't see them on anyone's blog.
ReplyDeleteAlso, IE has the Inspect element when you right click on a page. When I did that on the Kolobok Emoticons page, the HTML/CSS has much more than is outlined in that post. I still think we can get closer to having smilies like we had on MyOpera if I can host the smilies somewhere and manage to rewrite the JS to work on BlogSpot.
Have y'all gotten snow yet? Ice Storms?
ReplyDeleteHAVE you had a Remote Starter on a previous vehicle?
I only know of them. I've never known anyone who actually had one.
I take it they're only for vehicles with automatic transmission?
Then again ... isn't your Jeep manual transmission? Or am I assuming too much?
I don't know. I think "Jeep" and I think manual transmission. Then again, that would be the old style / original Jeeps.
We have gotten a couple of light snows. We have gotten lots of rain lately. The cold temps freeze the rain that remains on the roads causing them to be slick. We call this black ice. I leave for work before it's daylight and it's almost impossible to see the black ice.
DeleteI did not have a remote starter on my previous Jeep. Both Jeeps I own are automatic. The wrecked one is a Grand Cherokee Laredo and the new/OLD one is a Grand Cherokee Limited. This is what they look like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Grand_Cherokee The body style has not changed much over the years, so an older Jeep that has been well cared for looks just as good as a new one. No one who sees the new/OLD one can believe it's as old as it is.
Remote Starters are not as expensive as you might think. From talking to people I work with who have them, they range $200 to $300 installation included. I plan to have mine done at the Jeep Dealership, so my price will be on the higher end. BTW, I did not have one on my previous Jeep.
I know, I know...I told you twice in the previous comment that I did not have a remote starter on my previous vehicle...I REALLY miss the Edit button!
DeleteHah Hah Hah! Start getting into the practice of what I usually do. A lot of the times, before publishing a comment, I quickly Right Click and Copy the comment. That way you can correct flawed comments.
DeleteSince there are no Smilies in that comment, I COULD have right clicked and copied the comment, but I chose not to. I didn't want to deal with deleting the deleted comment.
DeleteAs to hosting the Smilies "somewhere?"
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome to the URLs of all the Smilies that I already have hosted here at Blogger. Let me know when you're ready to roll up your sleeves and embark on your Top Secret Kolobok Manhattan Project and I'll toss you the list of URLs.
BTW, Annette, I saw a heads up by someone regarding what is SUPPOSEDLY a new option for a Blogging platform and Community for MyOpera refugees. It is supposedly being started by one of the original co-founders of MyOpera.
ReplyDeleteCheck it out: https://vivaldi.net/
From what little I read, it's barely starting out. So, while they might be shooting to recreate a MyOpera atmosphere ... all the perks and bells & whistles are not there yet. From what I understood, CSS Code customization is definitely NOT there yet.
I went ahead and opened an account ... if anything, to at this early stage of its existence to assure myself of the "Suntana" username. Just in case it does take off.
ReplyDeleteHowever, while I was informed that the Activation Code had been E-mailed to me, I haven't received it yet. I guess it could be one of those things whereby it take 24 hours.
I opened up an account to assure myself of the SummerAngel username. https://vivaldi.net/unity/profile/summerangel
ReplyDeleteVivaldi sent me the Activation Code Email immediately. Hopefully, the original co-founder of MyOpera will recreate the MyOpera atmosphere soon.
Teresa also already opened up her Vivaldi account and even sent me an E-mail from her Vivaldi Mail.
ReplyDeleteBut, me ... I still haven't even friggin' gotten my Activation Code.
Maybe tomorrow.
If I don't get it tomorrow, I might have to get you to go post in the Vivaldi Forums as to why this Cool Guy Suntana hasn't gotten his Activation Code. LOL
From what little I saw at their Forums, they seemed to be open to suggestions and fixed some problems that some people brought up. So, maybe we need to inquire / investigate as to whether their Blogs' comments are gonna change to a new page every 50 comments like MyOpera ... or whether they're going to allow 1 million comments to accumulate on ONE page.
Maybe...just maybe, the perfectionist Suntana mistyped his email address. You should try going to the sign in page and typing in your username and pressing the I forgot my password button. That will take you to the Reset Password page where you can enter your email address. That should let you know if your email address is associated with your username.
DeleteBut first, you should check to make sure the first email they sent you did not go into your spam folder...that is ASSUMING you typed in the right email address. I really need some smart aleck smilies for this comment!
In theory, in Bizarro World / Anti-Matter World where everything is the opposite of reality, that COULD have happened ... but, not in reality. LOL
DeleteOkay Okay, but seriously, I actually did at the time consider that possibility. So, while I still had the page up that was waiting for the Activation Code, I slowly and carefully went over the E-mail Address to where they said they E-mailed the Activation Code ... character by character. And it was correct. And of course, I did check in my Spam Folder at that time. It wasn't in there.
I might have to try your suggestion. At least it's not a priority at this time.
I replied to your Vivaldi E-mail. Go check it out.
Smart Aleck Smilies, huh? That would sure beat some Dumb Aleck Smilies ... some 2 Beers Short of a 6-Pack Aleck Smilies. LOL
Have you received the Activation Code yet?
DeleteI searched for Suntana, but it yielded no results.
I replied to your reply in Vivaldi E-mail.
Ooooooo! And we need to inquire as to whether it's gonna have Smilies AND an Edit Button.
ReplyDeleteNo Edit Button...YET. I sent a Screen Capture of their Comment Box to your email from my Vivaldi Email.
ReplyDeleteBAMM! Alright! I already subscribed to your Posts and Comments using the Subscription Links Gadget in your Sidebar, Annette. And it worked. I already received Feeds from your Blog. [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5snx3wPB-y8/Unv_2gV4QVI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/9AlVnrrqixc/s1600/Dance1.gif[/img]
ReplyDeleteAnd hopefully you subscribed to my Posts and Comments and that it worked. I'll go over there and put up a comment so that you can test it out.
We've been gone for so long from BlogSpot that I had forgotten that we don't have editing capability here. Oh Nooooooooooo!
ReplyDeleteUh Oh! Another thing that I forgot.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have Smilies insertion capability here on your Blog, right Annette?
If not, then we have to hook you up.
Monday RSS Feed Notifications Test #2 for SummerAngel's Beach
ReplyDeleteSunny, I saved your instructions to MSWord in case you should decide to delete your comments on your site. Should I uninstall Opera and SmartRSS before downloading the older version of Opera? Since I have a three day weekend this week, I'm going to wait until Friday or Saturday to do this.
ReplyDeleteIt shouldn't matter when you download the older Opera version. Cuz if you think about it, you don't even have to download it with Opera. It'll just be an Opera Setup file that could be downloaded with IE or Firefox or Chrome. In fact, my sister's new computer doesn't have Opera in it at this time like their old computer (which is my current computer) did. So, the last 2 or 3 times that I've gone over there to download Apps, I've done it with IE.
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, just go over to FileHippo at your leisure and download that older Opera version with whatever Browser you want.
Oh, and BTW, you don't even have to uninstall the Smart RSS extension separately before uninstalling that latest Opera version. That extension, as all extensions will be ... is installed in the 'Opera Stable' folder inside the 'Opera Software' folder. So, when you uninstall that latest Opera version that you currently have, the Smart RSS extension will also be wiped out.
Hmmm ... it just dawned on me that you might have meant something other than what I thought you meant.
ReplyDeleteOkay, were you possibly referring to downloading and installing the older Opera version OVER your current (newer) version? Is that how YOU normally do this?
I don't do it that way. That is to say, I don't install a different version of an App over another one. A lot of times, like with avast Anti-Virus, it is said / CLAIMED that you can do that, that you can install a different version of an App OVER another one. But, I personally have never been a fan of that. Not that I've ever done it and gotten bad results or anything like that. I just go by the thinking that logically, completely uninstalling the current version and THEN installing the next version should make for a more organized install. Less likely to cause problems.
That said, you actually have two options.
ReplyDelete(1) You can completely uninstall your current version, which would also take the Smart RSS extension with it in the process. THEN install the older Opera version. Then install the Smart RSS extension in this older Opera version.
(2) Or you could actually just leave your current (newer) Opera version alone, in place. What you would then do is ... install the older Opera version in its own DIFFERENT folder. Yep, during the install process, where it prompts you as to where you want to install it, specify that you want to install it in sayyy ... the 'Opera 20.0.1387.91' folder. That will ensure that it gets installed in a totally separate location from your current version.
For example, I currently have both Opera 11.64 and Opera 20.0.1387.91 installed. They work fine and independently because they're each installed in their own separate folders in the Program Files folder.
Like with option #1 above, here too you'd have to install the Smart RSS extension again.
Didn't work. I even deleted the newer version before installing Opera 20.0.1387.91. I subscribed, via Atom, to both our blogs and comments, but when I open Smart RSS, neither show up in the All feeds section.
ReplyDeleteLet's try another experiment.
ReplyDeleteOkay ... download and install this extension:
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/rss-detector/?display=en
When installed, you should be able to see an RSS icon INSIDE the URL Address window ... just to the left of that Speed Dial and Heart icons in there.
THEN ... go to the Comments section of my Chalkboard Post.
When you see that the URL for that page has displayed in the URL Address window ... click on that RSS Detector icon there inside the URL Address window.
This should manually subscribe you to the Comments of my Chalkboard Post.
It SHOULD automatically send the pertinent info to the Smart RSS extension since both extensions work together as they were even created by the same guy.
Then go look in your Smart RSS page to see if NOW there are the feeds to the comments in my Chalkboard Post.
Refresh my memory, Annette.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of computer do you have?
What Windows do you have?
What Anti-Virus do you have?
Any other Anti-Malware Apps installed?
Do you have a separate Firewall besides the Windows Firewall?
And let's try something else to possibly help point us in the direction of where the problem is.
ReplyDeleteHere is the FileHippo link: http://www.filehippo.com
NOW ... with that same RSS Detector with which you subscribed to the Comments in my Chalkboard Post two comments ago ... subscribe to the FileHippo Home page.
Then see if you see any FileHippo feeds in your Smart RSS page.
You SHOULD. I certainly saw some immediately after I subscribed.
Hopefully this will tell us whether you're just not getting feeds from the Blogger platform ... or ANY feeds period.
Ok, I now have Smart RSS feeds. It shows my 2 posts and your 24 posts. Now, how do you get comment notifications? Will those show up at the top of the Smart RSS page? Will the Smart RSS take you directly to the comment?
ReplyDeleteMy Smart RSS icon did not turn orange when I made the above comment.
ReplyDeleteAlso, how do I make my blog show your Smilies?
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ReplyDeleteOkay, Annette, send me a Screen Capture of what your Smart RSS page looks like now that you at least see the the feeds to your 2 Posts and my 24 Posts.
ReplyDeleteCuz something is probably different with your setup vs. mine because in mine, I don't see my 24 posts listed there in my Smart RSS' Left Sidebar individually. In MY case, there in my Smart RSS Left Sidebar there is just:
1 Feed for my Blog's POSTS
1 Feed for my Blog's COMMENTS
1 Feed for your Blog's POSTS
1 Feed for your Blog's COMMENTS
Then in the Middle panel is where I see the myriad of comments that are provided by that ONE Comments Feed Source for my Blog and the ONE Comments Feed Source for your Blog there in the Left Sidebar.
Then in the Right panel is where I can read the content of whatever individual Comment from the Middle panel is selected.
To Double Check:
Did you make 100% absolute SURE that when you subscribed to the COMMENTS of each of our Blogs ... you were in the HOME Page of each Blog?
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ReplyDeleteAs to how to fix your Blog so that my MyOpera Smilies display?
ReplyDeleteHere you go. This should hook you up:
Adding Videos & Images to Blogger Comments
There are the steps for how and where to add the necessary code.
IMPORTANT: Before you attempt that procedure ... make sure you have a Backup copy of your Blog's Template with which to restore your Blog Design in case something goes wrong.
Here is another Goodie for you, Annette.
ReplyDeleteHTML Tags Allowed in Blogger Comments
Now ... the info in the link presents it as there being 5 HTML Tags allowed. But, Ehhhhh, really it's only 3 since 3 of those Tags actually do the same thing. Yep, the 'strong' Tag ... the 'b' Tag ... and the 'em' Tag all pretty much give the Bold effect.
So, as far as I'm concerned, there are 3 distinct HTML Tags allowed in the Blogger Comments: the 'b' Tag (Bold) ... the 'i' Tag (Italics) ... and the 'a' Tag with which we can insert ACTIVE links in our Blogger Comments cuz as you may or may not have previously noticed, inserting URLs into Blogger Comments does NOT result in active links. So, if we want to display active links in our Blogger Comments, we have to MAKE them active manually.
And yet another bit of info.
ReplyDeleteAnnette ... Teresa, Dasha and I have come to an agreement on something we're gonna do and something we're NOT going to do on our Blogger Blogs.
We all concurred that in a very active thread in a Blogger Post, very easily things can become a royal MESS due to the Threaded Comments system of comments in Blogger which instead of allowing us to QUOTE people's text ... we're supposed to Sub-Reply to individual comments. This in turn then generates a bunch of Sub-Chats mixed into the flow of the MAIN chat of a thread. That means the flow of the thread of a post will no longer be in chronological order by date & time. Now you'll have a MESS that unless you have a good Subscription Feeds system in place that will take you directly to ALL the new comments, you will NOT be able to follow what the heck is going on.
So, Teresa, Dasha & I decided that to prevent anymore MESSES from materializing in the comments ... we're no longer going to engage in anymore Sub-Replies to individual comments. We're only going to reply via the MAIN New Comment Box.
When we need to QUOTE for the sake of making sure our comments make sense, we'll quote manually since there is no quoting function in Blogger Comments.
To quote manually, we'll just do it via the use of the Bold & Italics HTML Tags to keep things organized something like THIS for example:
ReplyDeleteAnnette commented:
"Ok, I now have Smart RSS feeds. It shows my 2 posts and your 24 posts. Now, how do you get comment notifications? Will those show up at the top of the Smart RSS page? Will the Smart RSS take you directly to the comment?"
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And there you have it ... Instant Manually McGuyvered Quote.
Yeah, I know. Compared to what we had at MyOpera, this is slow, tedious and inefficient, but it's either this or Vivaldi.
Ahhhhh, it just dawned on me why you would have my 24 posts listed individually in the Left Panel of your Smart RSS page vs. them being consolidated into ONE item in MY Smart RSS' Left Panel. That would be the result of you no doubt having subscribed to them all individually with that RSS Detector extension. Right? That IS what you did, right?
ReplyDeleteThat should work as well.
In the Middle Panel of your Smart RSS page, you SHOULD see feeds for comments for my Chalkboard Post since Teresa, Dasha & I have certainly been commenting there. If you're still not seeing ANY feeds for comments in my Chalkboard Post, there's certainly something just not right somewhere.
BTW, Annette, when checking for feeds there in the Smart RSS page, you DO have "All feeds" selected, don't you?
ReplyDeleteI sent you a Screen Shot of my Smart RSS page.
ReplyDeleteI sent it to your email associated with this site.
ReplyDeleteNah. Don't send it there. I don't mess around with gmail.
ReplyDeleteSend it to my AOL E-mail Address or to my Vivaldi E-mail Address.
Okay, I finally found my gmail.
ReplyDeleteNnnnggg, by that Screen Cap, it just about looks like you have NOT subscribed to the COMMENTS of your Blog and my Blog.
There SHOULD be 2 items for each of our Blogs their in the Left Panel ... and I see only 1 item there for each of our Blogs.
Are you absolutely sure you're subscribing to the COMMENTS as well?
Cuz otherwise you're never gonna see any Feeds for Comments until there is another item for each of our Blogs in that Left Panel.
You appear to only be subscribed to our Blog POSTS.
Ok, I'm subscribed to comments now! And, it actually takes you to the comment!!! I'm a happy camper!!!
ReplyDeleteNow, how do I fix my blog so your Smilies will show up?
And, can you use one of those extensions to house/store the smilies? That would be the bomb to be able to see the smilie beside the code! Am I beginning to sound like Linda? LOL
As to how to fix your Blog so that my Smilies will show up?
ReplyDeleteAhhh, I see you haven't read all of the comments in yer Blog thar.
Cuz around 11 comments above this one, I answered that question.
I posted a link on Adding Videos & Images to Blogger Comments.
You had me going there when I first read your inquiry. I went, "WwwWAIT a minute! What the heck is going on here? I KNOW that I answered that question and even inserted a link ... SOMEWHERE." I looked in your other Post and in my Chalkboard Post and couldn't find where the heck I answered your inquiry. I finally looked further up in the comments of this post and there it was.
ReplyDeleteAs to whether you're beginning to sound like Linda? ROFL
ReplyDeleteToo funny! But, now that you mention it ... YES!
How so? Well, IF after all this time, the only reason you weren't able to get your Subscription Feeds on that Smart RSS page was because ... because you hadn't subscribed to them ... after I told you 1001 times to subscribe to them ... then YES, you do bring back memories of Linda. Hah Hah Hah! That WOULD be Linda-esque.
Another Linda thing was that she'd ask me for the SAME CSS Code over and over and over. I'd be like, "You HAVE to save this stuff!!! Or bookmark it or whatever, cuz I already gave it to you like 3 times before. I can't be giving you the same thing over and over a dozen times. What if I lose it?"
As to whether we can house / store the Smilies in one of those myriad of Opera Extensions? Nnnnggg, well, I can't say yes or no. I have not gotten around to scrutinizing the function of ALL the many extensions there are. Since you have High Speed Internet, you should be able to go through them much more quickly than I can with my Dial Up. Feel free to browse through the available Extensions here:
Extensions for Opera 20 and Up