{"id":97,"date":"2003-02-19T03:10:43","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T03:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=97"},"modified":"2003-02-19T03:10:43","modified_gmt":"2003-02-19T03:10:43","slug":"makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see, this blog has a new look. There are two reasons for the change. First, I was tired of the old template (especially the three-column layout, which wasted space and didn&#8217;t really make the blog easier to read). Second, I wanted to expand and reorganize the list of links. Those links aren&#8217;t here just to encourage you to check out the sites they point to &#8212; they&#8217;re also there because I use the blog as my own home page, and these are the sites that I go to most often. The new template is much better suited for a long list that breaks down into many categories. I&#8217;ll continue to tinker with the list as time passes; the new template makes it easy to add or subtract boxes as needed.<br \/>\nWhenever I&#8217;m thinking of renovating a blog, I go directly to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogskins.com\">BlogSkins<\/a> and browse through the hundreds of excellent blog templates there. Today&#8217;s makeover consisted mainly of replacing one BlogSkin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogskins.com\/info.php?sid=65\">(Block Head<\/a>) with another (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogskins.com\/info.php?sid=180\">Floating boxes<\/a>). My recent makeover of the <a href=\"\/smooth\/\">Smooth Report<\/a> was made possible by a BlogSkin called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogskins.com\/info.php?sid=617\">Par Avion<\/a>. I don&#8217;t have the graphic design talent or the HTML\/CSS coding skill to create blog templates like these, but thanks to BlogSkins, I don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see, this blog has a new look.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=97\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}