While you have somewhat limited control over the HTML of your page, there are a few things you can do. Divs. Remember divs? If you use the HTML view to write part of a post, you can write part of your update with a custom class or id. Just like this paragraph here. It’s not… Continue reading Part 5: Further Customization
Author: @nohoperadio - Leah Lindsaychen
Facilitator and Proprietor of Tales of Insecurity, a podcast of post-modern existential horror. I like to make the best of a bad situation, and also to make better ones. I'm here to be helpful!
Part Four: Laying it All Out There
As we approach the topic of custom layout, I do want to repeat: your safer option is choosing a different theme. There are so many to choose from, and growing all the time, and it’s hard to imagine you’ll have layout needs that aren’t already found between the original options and the layout of the… Continue reading Part Four: Laying it All Out There
Part Three: Asserting Your Importance
Before we talk about customizing elements of the layout, we should simplify our workflow a little bit. Remember in Part Two when we had to add multiple selectors to get our point across? Turns out this happened because of the CSS trait of precedence. If you have two bosses of equal rank, one telling you… Continue reading Part Three: Asserting Your Importance
Part Two: Keeping up with Color
As may be apparent by the eggplant color scheme on my website, I am not a graphic designer, and while, yes, I do often look stylish and may I say, fabulous? — that’s mostly because I’m tall. I’m sorry. Still, while I know some may find it garish, I like my eggplant color scheme, and… Continue reading Part Two: Keeping up with Color
Part One: The Freedom of Restraint
Hi! While normally, my devotion here is presenting my comedy-horror funny-sad podcast, I’m taking a break right now to bring you informative tech journalism. For the next few days, I’m going to tell you about customizing your premium WordPress.com site using custom CSS. If you learned CSS from an online course, and there’s no shame… Continue reading Part One: The Freedom of Restraint
Episode 10 – How to Be (with LiA Lindsaychen) – Transcript
ToI – Episode 10 – How to Be with LiA Lindsaychen
Episode 10: How to Be (with LiA Lindsaychen)
Tales of Insecurity is still on hiatus, but will be returning soon. For now, here is a filler episode, getting down to basics. Being alive, what a challenge.
Episode X – How to be a Nothing (transcript)
ToI – Episode X – How to be a Nothing (with Michael Liam Abbott)
Episode X – How to be a Nothing (with Michael Liam Abbott)
Tales of Insecurity is on a brief hiatus, but in the meantime, here is an interview LiA did in an effort to reach out to the community. Whatever community there is. Is that a meaningful term? Is it something anyone has? LiA doesn’t really know what people have.
Episode 8: House of Glass Transcript
A note for the reader: Two characters are written under the character name “Natalie.” This ambiguity is intentional. ToI – Episode 8 – House of Glass