Me and Programmaing : LIA to ALI !

Yah, I don't do that ! BUT ever since I have started blogging I think I am learning a little bit of that as well..I don't understand the language or science behind...how all these programs or specifically this BLOG works! But somehow by looking at the Template I figured out where to make the necessary changes, so that I can add people to the blog..or add the links I want..

Today I stretched my experiment a little further. I wanted to add the following lines to 'My Vision' in the sidebar to thank all those people who are taking out their time to comment on my snaps.

"Photography is almost my obsession, and I want to be better at it. So, criticize my pictures as much as you want. Look forward to your comments, and THANKS for your time."

While editing the links I learn't that any thing written between LIA to ALI jsut appears as texts on your blog, if you exclude the "STUFF BETWEEN THE QUOTES"


<li><a href="http://2006-photo-a-day.blogspot.com/">Vikas</a></li>

(need to thank madan here, he helped me in understanding the funda behind tags and writing the above code, else i was getting the link directly! !!eeeehhh)

So I wrote what I had to write, then I had to decide a place for it. It wasn't difficult to find the end of the profile description in the template to insert LIA to ALI, where I wanted. Everything was perfect at the first go....BUT then to stretch it further I wanted these words right after "VIEW MY COMPLETE PROFILE" ! And while doing so I did something such that my whole template changed to something horrible! Entire formatting was lost! The black back ground disappered! Snaps were placed here and there...!! :(

And I got totally pissed with myself...there is saying in hindi..'Khane bulo to rahne ko mangthe hain' thats what I thought! I regretted what I did. But then I got this brilliant idea, to load back the template. I though that would fix the problem. I got excited and loaded it back.

But, it lost all the edits I had made! People and Links I had added! And offcourse I did not remember the links! Got, more disappointed with myself!

Then I remembered something and got another brilliant idea. I had saved the entire template of my previous blog. I always do that before I start messing up with it. :) back was my smile!
Because then all I did was compared the current template with what I had and figured out where and what I messed up and uploaded the previous template!

So while addressing things between 'LIA to ALI' I had deleted the following :)


<title><$BlogPageTitle$></title>
<$BlogMetaData$>
<style type="text/css">
/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name: Minima Black
Designer: Douglas Bowman
URL: www.stopdesign.com
Date: 26 Feb 2004
----------------------------------------------- */
body {
background:#000;
margin:0;
padding:40px 20px;
font:x-small "Trebuchet MS",Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;
text-align:center;
color:#ccc;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
}

As I read the above code I understood why I got a BIZZARE blog, for a while...and went OFF- Blog for a while!! PHEW!! Me and Programming! Thankgod that this is not my full time job. However, thanks to the mess with 'LIA to ALI' I got to know how to make changes to the template :). BTW, I still have some lines showing up as highlighted or linked to something...if anybody can be suggest how to get rid of it, that will be great. Thanks.