I like them. The Brown one is hard to read at 800*600, might be worth cropping it down a lot rather than resizing, but it's cool. The LibDem one is silly, I approve.

Asides: your feed links point to martinemartin.com instead of co.uk, which makes them invalid feeds for auto discovery (it's probably worth putting direct sidebar links to them as well, making subscription easy means repeat visitors). Also, I really HATE base target=_blank coding, in fact, I hate target blanks across the board, forcing new tabs/windows when I don't want them, like for a comment box, is frustrating.

Beyond that, cool. Are you on LJ BTW? I find antitheism frustrating at times, but it can be amusing and useful. Love the Plato quote, have yanked.

Found you via MatGB. These are very funny, especially the LibDem one. The site design is great, too.

Hmmm, bit of an [aol] comment. Oh well.

matgb:

Thanks. You may be right about the Brown one, but then not many people use that resolution anymore, so I don't suppose it's a big deal.

Asides: your feed links point to martinemartin.com instead of co.uk, which makes them invalid feeds for auto discovery (it's probably worth putting direct sidebar links to them as well, making subscription easy means repeat visitors). Also, I really HATE base target=_blank coding, in fact, I hate target blanks across the board, forcing new tabs/windows when I don't want them, like for a comment box, is frustrating.

I think I know what you mean by forcing new windows for comments - I have it set to do that because the other way gets on my nerves ;)

Other than, I'm afraid you're speaking some Greek to me there (I'm not the most technical person in the world!). I'm not sure what you mean by feed links or auto discovery - though of course if you'd be willing to walk me through fixing the problems I'd be grateful for the help :)

I'm on LJ but only in a cursory fashion, just to follow a few groups of interest. I don't like LJ really. Antitheism has frustrating moments when people repeat themselves or get ticked off by someone, but overall it's good to be amongst generally like minded people. You there too then?

pete in dunbar:

Aw thanks mate, the kind words are much appreciated!

Re forcing new links; you can tell blogger to create a pop up box for comments instead of a complete page, I actually now prefer that toa whole page comment, although I never had it set that way for the old Blogger site.

For the feeds, it's for subscription. Using Firefox or a feedreader, they can find your subscription feeds and automatically set you up in the reader or live bookmark (Internet Explorer will have this in the next version as well).

On the blogger dashboard, go to settins then site feed. The box called 'site feed url' needs to have .co.uk/atom.xml not .com/atom.xml which is what seems to be there.

If that's not the problem, then it's a template issue, which you'd need to go to whoever did it and get them to fix.

As for LJ, yup, am on it, it's where I started, as matgb as well, I'm that pretty much everywhere these days. I like it, mostly I suspect as 95% of my real life friends use it and I've made more than a few through it. It's inward looking, but in a good way fr the most part. Owners are useless, but that's venture capitalists for you, was much better when it was run like a cooperative...

Ah ha - now I'm with you. And you're right, it was set to .com

Can't believe I didn't notice that! Thanks for alerting me, that's fixed. Also I like comment popups too but never knew how to do it. I've figured that and switched it over. We'll see how that works out.

Again, thanks for the help!

De nada. Both seem to be working now anyway.