Comments on: Sex Blog Advice From Violet Blue

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:32:00 +0000

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Ed! People often disagree with other’s skin-choices, so I’ll cheerfully support anything readable. I’d use something brighter myself if more than a couple people had complained, but black with white/cyan/blue is “where I’m from” computer-wise — old early-90’s ANSI BBS-culture style. It’s my *roots*, you know?

Besides, templates are inextricably linked to layout of and length within *the posts*. The basic bricks of a blog are posts of reasonable length and aesthetically pleasing proportions, IMO, and that’s what I care more about. It’s perhaps a weakness of the medium that brevity is so underrated and shapeless bocks of text so tolerated. So, despite the best of intentions, it’s hard for me to follow and enjoy a blog featuring dense style or lengthy posts of uninterrupted text. Poetry, novels and erotica I own already. ;)

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:30:00 +0000

To be perfectly honest, Brett, I don’t usually like sites with light text on black background, but with your site it works well. Your template just seems to fit you perfectly and I can’t imagine your site being any other way.

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:07:00 +0000

Brett, you are probably right. Unfortunately a bunch of the new blogger templates are butt ugly, especially the ones that try to have fully-justified text. Browsers just don’t render that well enough, and it ends up looking really horrid (and hard to read).

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:00:00 +0000

On the other hand, I was really pleased when Blogger started offering some nice new templates. I think that a regularly-updated selection of stock templates is the best we can hope for on the skin-front.

By: Luise

Luise — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:54:00 +0000

thanx for your advise

By: TwiddlyBits

TwiddlyBits — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:42:00 +0000

I agree - standard blogger templates pretty much suck.

I use blogger.com to post stuff to my blog, but have my own domain name, host it on another non-blogger.com server, and actually BOUGHT a template to use & tweak, etc.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:29:00 +0000

Personally I was glad to get away from Blogger altogether and use Wordpress.

Content is the main thing, of course, but yes, customising your template has to be a good thing.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:28:00 +0000

Oh yeah, and ESC - the joy of template tinkering…I know just what you mean!
(Had fun today, I see.)

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:25:00 +0000

Brett, you don’t need any bog-standard Blogger templates, though. Your site shows just what can be done with Blogger.

By: Unfurling

Unfurling — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 06:52:00 +0000

I thought all self-respecting sex bloggers abandoned blogger ages ago?