Concrete Lunch

I have been changing the theme of this blog a lot this week.

I’m trying to make it look good on phones and tablets, which meant ditching the sidebar.

I’m also trying to adhere to good accessibility practices. The structure of the pages is good. I ran it through a couple of checkers. I was displeased with the color of the links. While I like this theme, I think clickable links should either be a different color from the rest of the text, or be underlined, or both. Themes these days are so damned complicated – they are hard to modify.

But anyway, I made all the links on the blog underlined. I’ll probably change their color too.

There I did it.

I was fiddling with this blog the other day and deactivated Jetpack briefly. Jetpack is the plugin that runs the email notifications for new posts, and collects stats. I turned it off because I no longer wish to see stats.

Now Jetpack will not reconnect.

For a non-coder I’m pretty good at this stuff, but damned if I can get it to work.

Honestly, I probably should keep it removed. I don’t like them tracking my website through the plugin. They might…you know…discover all the secrets I’m publishing publicly here.

The ability to do a free email newsletter summery of a blog is BUILT IN to micro.blog . I have considered moving this whole blog to that system. Actually I’ve tried it, but the blog is approaching 1000 posts, and lots of images and files, and micro.blog choked on it. I think the formatting of the WordPress site is just slightly not friendly to MB. I will try it again.

Anyway, if you are reading this and would normally have gotten it via email, this is the reason. There are about 23 of you.

I’m likely going to just keep Jetpack uninstalled. I really only want the email list if I can still get it, but with only 23 people subscribed it might be easier to just to start over.

I really recommend you use an RSS app, like Reeder or NetNewsWire to keep up with this and other blogs.