Green Flamingobecause I said so

It has been over a week since I have posted anything, or maybe just over a week since my site has been down.

I am not sure it is so much readership that I have suffered, though it did take some people many days to comment on how my site is down.

I am disappointed in the loss, hopefully it can be won again, for I do not want to let Green Flamingo die.

I think some of you might want to know what happened, so I think I can relay that in a quick manner.

What Happened

I think it was on a Sunday, in the afternoon and I was working on Green Flamingo. I wrote two posts, one published immediately and the second of the University Kid to be published the following day.

I then thought I would touch up the site a little bit, as long as I have the time, and you rarely have time for blogs on vacation. I went into the footer file, remembering some of the weird links that were there. I had heard Jason say people will get really pissed if you remove footer links, but nothing superbad will happen.

So I took my chances removing an ugly beer link and a webhosting link. Why should I have those?

Then the trouble started.

I hit “update” and I either got the message straight away or when I opened my site to see the new look.

“This theme is released under creative common’s license and all footer links must be kept intact.”

I was willing to agree with them, maybe they just go a little extreme over it, who knows? So I went back and tryed to edit the file. I was sad that I did not have the exact format for them, so I opened greenflamingodesigns’s copy of the file and sure enough it was there. I copied/pasted the code in, but it still did not work.

Days later the site itself was fixed, but I had to use a different theme. Of course, I was stupid enough to try the other theme again, then again, and even a third time. The other day Ben tried to help via IM, he downloaded a copy and I emailed him a copy of my footer. He tried to find the problems, and I did too, and finally he decided to give me his footer text. I copied that in, deleting my other text and not saving it. The theme was still broken, and so I had to delete the theme and get a new copy.

Before I could do that, my Internet was down for a day and a half, and it was down today being the reason I was not finishing this at 1:00.

I copied and pasted the theme files I edited like the stylesheet and sidebar into a word file to switch them with the new theme copy, but when I got to the header I found my part gone.

That was another place where I truly messed up, all the editing of the RSS buttons and email forms were messed up, plus ads and entrecard. I will probably recover soon, I am not sure if I can get the same images, or remember who was advertising. (If you were please tell me).

Anyway, my site is alive and hopefully I can get itr back to its previous staus. I hope you did not die hearing my long talk of problems, though sometimes a blogger must reveal his failures. And a tip for you: you might not want to remve that footer link, not matter how ugly!

I have a new theme if you have read this blog before. A little to talk about, that’s all. There are ups and downs of it.

It has a professional look, flowing nicely with the orange and black

It has a LOT of space. I can put in tons of pages. Also, the posting area is much bigger making room for more posts on one page. Now, my previous posts that were pretty short are now REALLY short.

I have some nice pages at the top that add to the professionalism. But, unfortunately, I do not know how to edit them and have them be a page. (A little help?).

I was thinking of a few April Fools jokes to play on you guys, but non e relevant. Thought enough of them I have. Hmmmmmm. Happy April Fools Day everyone!

There was a trick that I basically played on myself that I sadly didn’t know about. When I changed my theme, and after that, sitemeter kept talking about how I had zero views or (on the day I switched the theme) only a few. I was wondering, how could this be, why do I deserve this after my hard upgrading work? So then I didn’t post for a few days because I thought I had lost my readers. Well, as it turns out, since I had changed my theme, there was no sitemeter tracker there so it appeared as I had no views. I am glad I still have readers and that I really have a lot more than no views a day. So, it was an April Fools weekend joke played on me by a few. (Myself, wordpress, sitemeter, etc.).

I wonder what the next post will be about?

While waiting for the votes to gather, I was thinking about something for the “I’ve already voted!” people to read. I have many ideas but for now I think I’ll do a “link-o-rama.” I made up the word, (I think) and to me it means briefly explaining my links.

Carlocab, first on the list: This is a blog that teaches you to “make money online.” A 13 year old, or maybe really 14, gives guides, tips, and explains to you how to make money online.

The next one, Jessica Mah Meets World, is the place of a 17 year old entrepreneur who gives you the scoop on her life and actually, just is an entrepreneur!

The third, legoshop.com, is a great site where you can shop, play, and do much more, all with legos! You can do much more than listed, I am just tired of wasting my sleep time posting.

Number four, light-spring transformations, is where you can purchase channeling from Karen Murphy

Number five, lionandmagicboy, is a blog where feeling is expressed, and sometimes it talks about meee. Ahut Ahem. Anyway, it’s pretty good.

Sixth, loving awareness, lives up to its title, talking about its name. It has help, and more channeling info.

Seven, (this also incorporates #8) is robertoalamos, which I guess gives you update information. Number eight is just another page of it.

Nine, runescape, it’s ok, I haven’t played much, it has been on and off, bla, bla, bla, who cares.

Ten, springing light, it is more channeling. Just remember, not a lot of content on there and  not updated  frequently.

Last one, techbuzz.net, I think this is a great site. I look at it to get all the latest tech buzz!

Ok. Finally all done. I am happy to exchange link for link at any time, I know I don’t have tons of traffic but it’ll still be ok. If you want I’ll link to you and then you wait a while and see if I’m worthy enough to link to.