If you ask nicely, Kevin Aylward might be willing to help you out. He's done it for others in the past.

At least the Mencken quote is still there.

As previously mentioned, I'm not in Kevin Aylward's league, and perhaps not in Madfish Willie's league either, but if I can be of assistance, let me know.

Put your contact info back up too, please, Ace. I tried to mail you today but only had an old bad address and couldn't find a new one.

These corrections are all well and good, but I need my Paul Anka retrospective.

"The guys get shirts! That's just. The fucking. Way it is."

(and johnny too)

Ace,

You really have to get Photoshop.
I'ma flip you a donation tomorrow to get you on your way.

Because you could be doing things like THIS-

http://www.hogonice.com/archives/003063.html

Ace,

Good Luck Man!

I recommend not using the Mencken quote, because what it describes is exactly what Zarqawi has been doing, namely raising a black flag and slitting throats. Mencken's point was that even normal people may occasionally feel that way, while Zarqawi is by no means normal. Yet perhaps if Mencken were alive today he'd say something more like "Every normal man must be tempted at times to nuke those who raise black flags to slit innocent people's throats." On the other hand, maybe I'm just overly picky, and I like Ace's blog in general. Keep doin' what you're doin', Ace.

Christ, Laura! There are some things a man can't unsee!

*Shudder*. . .

You know, from time to time that's occurred to me.

But I really do love that quote, and I chose it as the ethos of this stupid fucking dummyblog, and at this point the idea of my blog without that quote is like McDonald's without the Golden Arches. At least to me.

I also wondered about calling myself "Ace of Spades" when they made Saddam Hussein the Ace of Spades, but I had been AoS long before he had.

I guess, re: Mencken and AoS, I can only quote badly-aging rock-douche Bono: "Charles Manson stole this song from the Beatles, and we're stealin' it back."

Does this mean that when you get to the bottom you'll go back to the top of the slide? Or just that you have blisters on your fingers....(from typing, presumably...)?

Ace - I think my template would work for you with some minor tweakage. If you want it lemme know.

Good luck with this knotball, Ace!

This is one of the reasons I don't blog: I'm too intimidated to get under the hood of the user interfaces. "But a baby could do it!" Well, I ain't the baby!

CSS is a bitch. I don't know what OS you use, but I find it much easier to edit my templates in an external file using a text editor that does color coding for tags. I know there are windows equivalents to what I use, but not what they're called. On a mac, you can't beat BBEdit.

(easier than trying to edit them within a browser window) - sorry if that was unclear

Ace, I'm no pro at this, but I helped out fellow Munuvians The Llamabutchers and Jen (both of her sites) with style issues. Shoot me an email if you want me to look over the css from your old and new templates and try to get you something workable in MT.

What about pie? Could always use some more pie.

Hi. remember me?

how about now?

One glitch, at least in firefox -- the "hoist the black flag and" part is also in red and italicized through the black quote, making both unreadable....

Well, it's not done yet. It's an experiment.

I Know it looks like shit at the moment.

What I need to do, I think, is set up a three-column table for the banner, so I can have the playing card on right, then the title, and then on the left the Mencken quote in small type.

I know how to set up a table, but I don't know how to set the sizes of the rows, and the middle space will have to be big.

The Death Card! FUCK YEAH!
You might want to add after
Ace of Spades HQ
"Your one stop source for Porn and Patriotism!"

Try using percentages for your cell sizes. It works on my dinky little bidness site. No earthly idea how it works with stinkin' CSS, though.

Check out TopStyle Pro for CSS work. Worth every nickel to me.

The fact that your comments don't remember people, with all due respect, is Pixy's fault. None of the Munuvian blogs remeber people.
And. That's. Just. The. Way. It. Is.
Sucka.

I use Typepad which is 'kinda MT' but hosted. I was having the same kind of symptoms for comments that you are describing - partial form, not remembering, etc. - I contacted Six Apart support and they did something to my templates - I don't know - not in templates visible to me anyway - and it immediately fixed it. So maybe they can send you a patch or lines of code to insert or something? Hope this helps...

Worry about function before aestetics, they're far easier to implement once the structure is in place. I have minions....email me....and we'll help. My short $$ for big payback has been phenominal.
And it hasn't ended with verbal contract agreement. I'm a pain in the ass....and a good minion is one what sticks through it with you....
from experience, S

I feel your pain. MT templates are a royal pain in the ass. Adapting them to your specific site design can be an enormously tedious undertaking. It took me about a week to get mine the way I wanted it. Now I've installed an updated version of MT and want to upgrade, but I just haven't had the heart to tackle that template hacking again.

Hey Ace!

I'm sure my login is still active -- would you like me to take a look?

xoxo
M

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