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Experimenting with New Themes and Fonts

23/11/2012

 
A Nov. 19, 2012 e-mail announced new themes and fonts. I just changed the theme to one that I hadn't noticed before. It looks like we're heading into a dark alley.
Let me provide one warning to other Weeblers.

I'd started another draft, then clicked on the "Design" tool in the uppermost toolbar. That was a mistake, because that first draft disappeared.

Once I'd published this, I deleted the unlucky draft and went to the Design options for fonts.

The process is to click "Design". From there, "Themes" are obvious. The fonts for title and paragraph are selected from "Design Options", if my short-term memory works.

This is Lilly Font

This is "Nunito" font at the moment. However, the fonts and themes remain throughout the whole site. One cannot pick new fonts on the fly.

Publish or Perish

The theme changes did not take effect until I clicked "publish".

Here's another warning.

Obviously the theme can change the background colour and text colour. That's fine and dandy.

But I chose the orange and green fonts for warnings and highlights in this theme. Some other theme might, for all I know, have a background that provides poor contrast. Be warned before making theme changes!

Different Themes for Different Blogs

That's not too surprising, but my "Blog of Writing" still has its own theme.

Trivial Post 112 is the First Trying to Omit a Text Module

12/5/2011

 
However, it fails to do so.
I clicked the red-circle-'X' in the upper right, leading to the following dialog box:


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In the process of deleting a module...partial screen capture by Mike DeHaan







However, as soon as I click "Yes, delete it", a new text module appears.

I shall have to copy this into the "Weebly Discoveries" page at my earliest convenience.

Seventy-Seventh Trivial Post

7/4/2011

 
This is trivial post seventy-seven. It still is trivial. I just noticed that the date in the row between this text box and the title is actually a link that pops open a calendar, but only in edit mode rather than in read mode.

Trivial Post Fifty-Two

13/3/2011

 
Trivial post fifty-two may be the first...certainly one of the few, the very few...to contain an image or four. This will follow up on my exploration of "drafts" in Weebly.

Post #51 is still in draft form.

Image #1 is the way this blog looks to the reader. Post 51 is not listed at all.
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Weebly Hides a Draft from Readers.
Image #2 is the way it looks to the editor at first. The draft is closed.
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Weebly Edit View of an Unopened Draft.
Image #3 shows the draft opened for editing.
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'Show' the Draft to View the Title.
Finally, Image #4 shows the Weebly actually ready to edit the draft. (I left it unchanged).
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Ready to Edit the Draft.