On this blog two others are using the space with Radiant Woman. I am happy to introduce you to Mr S.P.A.M. and Ms Clicks.
In November 2006 they hit it off really well. The blog opened up and both were slowly getting their hits (Ms Clicks) and comments (Mr S.P.A.M.).
Early January Mr S.P.A.M. changed his attitude when Ms Clicks got more hits than he had comments. O boy was he disbehaving and making faces at her. Ms Clicks laughed and walked over a hundred clicks and left Mr S.P.A.M. behind at only 95 hits.
Without knowing it herself Radiant Woman made it worse with posting this post on wheels , suddenly huge amounts of comments made Mr S.P.A.M. very happy. All kind of car advertisements to come and buy wheels and admire cars.
Today Ms Clicks is ready for a celebration: almost 10.000 hits. She is looking radiant and happy. Mr S.P.A.M. is sulking and looking for revenge. Is it still possible? Today 1308 versus 9968 hits.
“Well, Radiant Woman put a new header from Karen in, perhaps that will get me more comments now.”
To make a long story short my first 10.000 hits are nearing, time to make changes and get another lay out. I would love to have a blog with a bigger font, still waiting for Lorelle to write on how she makes her nice big font on her blog. She promised in the comments already. (Hi Lorelle, no pushing intended, love your work, treasure your time!)
As always dreaming of more possibilities, I am off with Ms Clicks so my children can wrap their presents for mothers day.
I will keep you posted, thanks everyone for visiting, giving comments and making Ms Clicks happy and victorious. Mr S.P.A.M. will have to be more patient and I promised him to write when he reaches the same plateau.
I am number 9991 I wanted to be special and be 10,000. Congratulations on 10,000, shows how people value your writing, I certainly know I do.
Bill
Ok, I cheated I came back again wanting to be 10,000 but missed by 1, I am 10,001. Congrats.
Bill
this makes you more special Bill, you are the first in the new era!
oh well, got here a little late for the magic figure but am not complaining! (10,025)
I love the way you have put this across! Very original and a right good read!!
Congratulations on the barrier crossing, new worlds awaiting??!!
Ha 10.025 is still pretty amazing, I am glad you like it here. New worlds are always awaiting.
Walking question mark is my intention for the next round of 10.000. Thanks for congrats.
Happy Mother’s Day.
It was the best Mothers day ever. Looking forward to more of those.
Um, um, I kept my promise. WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blockquotes and Quotes and WordPress.com Blog Bling: Fun Font Bling are the answers to “large fonts” in WordPress.com, no matter where you want to put them.
Also, be careful with your links in your posts. The one to your old post where I made the “promise and the answer to the promise” is badly formed and needs to be fixed. All part of learning the blogging routine.
Keep on blogging!
The double http, that does not look nice indeed, fixed it. Thanks for the mention.
I have seen both of the posts and have worked with that for about a month. When I made a bigger font in the posts only, it looked strange. What I am looking for is to have more of the blog in a bigger font. Like you do with yours. Is that kind of post coming too?
Ouch. Rule one in responding to comments, respond in your own comment, not in “mine”.
I almost didn’t see your reply.
I don’t know what you mean by how I make any fonts bigger. I do, however, use the Custom CSS paid feature which allows me to set the font size for my entire blog and all it’s elements, as well as the color and layout. I think it’s still $15 USD for the feature. That way you can create your own WordPress blog look.
If you like this look, $15 is a lot for changing the font size, and if you are unfamiliar with using CSS, then it’s even more of a burden. But that’s the only way. And yes, I will be writing more about styling your WordPress Theme, but how to use CSS and such is all over the web relative to fonts. I HATE blog’s using small fonts. But luckily, browsers allow me to enlarge them so I can read them better with the View > Text Size feature.
Good that you spotted my comment then. This is something that I am still not happy about. I even wrote Where to comment on a comment?
I do not want people to miss my comment on their comment however.
About the bigger font, I read Which WordPress Plugins does Lorelle on WordPress Use and you mention that
This made me think that I could style my weblog in a bigger font without CSS which is total abacadabra to me.
Just so you know, in Lorelle on WordPress, using the Custom CSS Extra feature, my base font is set as:
body {... font-family:'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Futura, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1em;
color:black;...}
The … contains the rest of the styles. I just wanted you to see the font stuff. How it works is that the font the user sees is the font they have installed on their blog. So if they have Trebuchet, they would see that, if not then Lucida Sans, and so on down the list. The font size is set to 1em, which is a standard size that all blogs should be based upon. This blog’s base font is set for
font-size: 0.9em;but the post-content is a fix 12px which is very bad form. You NEVER want to set post content areas in a fixed font.I know that doesn’t make sense, but em or a percentage is the way to set fonts. Using the pixel (px) to fix the font size doesn’t meet web standards.
Anyway, now you have more than enough information to work with. You can always change themes. Have fun!