There are still some minor tweaks I need to make. I want the "Strangers" "Friends" and etc headings to be a color that matches the rest of the page. I want a new "Design by Ellen Moss" button.

(I wonder, can I still claim I designed the page, since I didn't design the background? Hmm. Or, did I "design" the background? Honestly, it's all a blur.)

(GRSites really is a mind-bogglingly cool place. I remember looking at backgrounds they had listed under "blue" and "green." I remember discovering that I could modify the colors, and turning several "green" designs blue and vice versa. I remember the terrifying moment when I realized I could also turn "orange" or "red" designs into any color I wanted, and suddenly had basically an infinite number of backgrounds to choose from. I have no idea at all whether this background was one right off the rack or if it's one of the ones I modified at all. But I digress. The basis for the design is clearly not original, so GRSites deserves some sort of credit.)
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I might also need to make the navigation buttons a little less wide. Or, I might not. For a long time, it was bugging me that I couldn't see all of the "Diaryland" button on my screen. I fixed it for me by making it physically smaller, but I don't think that's necessarily a universal fix.

I need more knowledge. I swear I read something somewhere about one little line of code you insert to make the page fit any size window, but I'm not even sure where I might have read that.

So, now we're at the stage where I beg people for insight. Are all the navigation buttons in one row across the top of your screen, and can you see all of them completely?

And while I have your attention, is there a way to set the lengths of the green and blue boxes? Right now, they seem to always be the same length, and I very rarely write entries the exact length of my links column. It's minor, but it bugs me.
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I'm pretty sure my HTML is all clunky and strange. I tried running the source code through an HTML editor I found. The first thing it noticed was my brief foray into CSS. I need that. Underlined links are so 1997. I know it must be right, because it works, but the HTML editor refused to acknowledge it because it's technically not HTML. Maybe all the things it "found" are similarly wrong. It found a lot. It pointed out the first 20 things it found, and refused to tell me any more till I fixed those. Damn you, HTML editor!

I need a real person who speaks HTML to go through my code line by line. I know there's a lot of completely superfluous stuff mixed in there, but figuring out what I really need makes my brain hurt.


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