Metro Dude

Eh, check out my sidebars, you wouldn’t know it but they are now wider than the original sidebars on this theme. I like the theme, but the sidebars were too narrow, and now they’re wider so I can fit in the wider widget, and it was all my own work, are you impressed?

Wordpress themes are a bit complex for those of us who haven’t done this stuff before, oh thanks to the few of you who’ve been kind enough to offer your help, but I’m having some fun working it out for myself, although if you’re written up and guides to working with wordpress you think I might be interested in please give me you’re website url.

So, you might be asking how did I make the sidebars wider? Well, I discovered a really cool plugin for Firefox called firebug that helps you work out what to change in your stylesheet. All I had to do was play with a few of the styles then upload the changes to my blog and hey presto.

I was lucky this theme doesn’t have any background images so all I had to was make the main post area smaller and increase the width of the sidebars by the same amount. Took me five minutes to do the whole thing.

Might even have to look into this theming thing a bit more maybe make a few more changes.

I’m bummed, its a brand new blog I’ve started but already people have been tellin’ me to get a new one on wordpress with my own domain name so I guess I’m gonna have to do it, you should read my thread over at digital point to see what people say about being on blogger.

So I’m gonna have to move my posts over once I get it all sorted out, then I suppose I’m gonna have to do all my technorati and shite all over again but wtf eh, it needs to be done so they say.

But what do I do about my feedburner, I’ve already got three readers and I don’t want to lose you all so quick, well you’ll have to change your readers I suppose unless I can get the folks at feedburner to change my blog address. Anyway, sorry about the boring post, I’ll go and get my domain now, just don’t know wheres best, someone on digital point said to get godaddy and another guy said namecheap, screw it, why do things have to be so difficult.

I just registered mattmetrodude.com now I have to wait for the email about the host account before I can get this done