I can’t tell you how glad I am its 2008. I didn’t mention this last year, but I was really apprehensive at coming into a 7 – year again — in 1997, that’s when my childhood home foreclosed. In 2007, something similarly devastating happened to me, but its still not something I’m comfortable talking about. Either way, I have a lot of hope and optimism for 2008.
So forgive me for the weird mess that my site has been most of the day, but it seems like something good came of it — I finally have a layout that doesn’t go all funky in IE 6, plus I minimized the pink, something a few of the guys were telling me was a turn off. Um, sorry guys.
As a gift for putting up with me, I’m going to link you to some cool coupons I got a hold of. Print ’em out, thank me later.
Borders — 20% off till Dec. 6
H&M — 25% off till Dec. 9
JC Penney — 20% off till Dec. 9, but you have to register
Linens & Things — 20% off till Dec. 30 (pdf)
OshKosh — 50% to 70% off till Dec. 11
Sharper Image — $10 off every $50 you send¬† until Jan.¬† 31
Staples — 12% off till Dec.8 (pdf)
Yankee Candle — $10 off a $25 purchase until Dec. 29
You might notice some stuff changed. Um, its cause I broke my blog. This layout is a quick fix, but I’ll get it squared away eventually.
If you have been checking in in the afternoons and evenings, you may have seen that I’ve been experimenting with other themes. My biggest concern is that the site looks craptastic in IE 6 — for some reason the left sidebar drops down behind the right one. But other folks have told me they hate that my site is so jarringly pink – heheh, sorry boys. So here’s your chance to voice your opinion.
On another tangent, I apologize for having so many polls/voting posts lately.
So I’ve been trying for the last week to make my new theme compatible with Internet Explorer. If you’ve been reading this redesign on IE, you might not know its supposed to be three columns. I’ve tried to adjust the widths, the css, I’ve removed all the widgets and put them back in, one by one, to figure out what’s been messing up the columns — since the original theme apparently works with IE. But the one plugin I really love and really want to use — Another Flickr, that shows off my flickr pictures (even the super old ones!) — keeps messing up the columns. I don’t have this problem at all in Firefox.
So…..I’m going to take this opportunity to really urge those of you who have been regularly reading my site (ahem, Fluteprayer, ahem) to download Firefox. Seriously, you won’t regret it — Firefox is SO MUCH BETTER than IE, plus you can customize it to have all the search engines you use regularly and you can get new themes for it, like this BibleFox theme. :)
Seriously. I can’t keep messing with this thing. Just download Firefox. For your betterment and my sanity.