Welcome to my new blog! For the past eighteen months or so, I’ve blogged at I Have a Question… but there have been a constant and increasingly irritating stream of problems at that site, so I’ve decided to make the move to WordPress. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been having fun playing with the layout but I think it’s now just about doing what I want, though I’m not promising that I’ve stopped playing yet! I’ve checked it in Firefox and whatever version of IE is on my laptop. It looks much better in Firefox! If you have another browser and find that you can’t get things to work, please let me know.
One of the useful features here is the facility to set up pages. Essentially these are perma-linked posts. I plan to have one with links to my essays, published articles etc, and one with items that may be of particular interest to members of Cresheim Valley church. Others may follow!
I hope to be able to upload all my old posts here at some point, though I’m not sure how easy that will be from the old site.
Conversational Theology is, in my opinion, one of the most profitable ways to learn and grow in the faith. As iron sharpens iron, so it is that by discussion and debate our understanding of the Word can be strengthened and refined. That means that you, whoever you are reading this blog, are invited and encouraged to participate in the debate. No question or comment is too trivial or too obvious to make – we’re all here to learn.
So, find a comfy chair, get a cup of tea (or a mug of coffee if you insist), something nice to nibble on (Mrs Jeffers’ brownies are ideal) and settle in for the conversation.
Stumble It!
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I like your new digs! (Though the font is a bit difficult to read.)
Wow! That was fast. Do you find the font difficult to read because it’s too small, too light or just too fancy? I like it, but I was wondering whether it would really work on the blog.
Also, do you mind me asking what browser you’re using to view it?
Thank you!
I was using Firefox–although I just tried it using IE. The script is much lighter and “shakier” in Firefox–definitely easier to read, at least on my computer, in IE. Strange, since you said Firefox looked better on your computer.
I think the script font is good for post titles, blogroll, etc., but for big chunks of text a less fancy font might make for easier reading.
I do like the colors.
Thanks, Angie. I don’t see much difference in the font on the two browsers but IE doesn’t display the header quite as nicely (it doesn’t recognise the translucent effect).
I’ll see how I feel about the font. You may be right that it’s better for the small chunks in the headings than for long posts.
Alas, I’m going to have to chime in and say that the font wears me out after a few lines. It’s fine for headlines but (to these eyes) too froufrou for sustained prose.
Ros – welcome to WordPress – glad you saw the light – it’s lovely in here isn’t it? But i’m afraid i’m going to have to chime in with the font tack s well. FrouFrou is a good description really. Is a rule of thumb that italics are not so good on a website? I dunno – but you’ve established your chick-site credentials sufficiently by the pastels and swirls everywhere else. i think a simple sans serif non-italic font is in order.
keep up the good work though
Why do I never have anything original to say?
I clicked on the permalink to type in a comment complaining about the font… only to find I’ve been well and truly beaten to it.
The two problems, I think, are:
(i) A lot of your readers speed-read to varying degrees. That’s even true for someone like me who has never trained to do so and who thinks of myself as a slow reader. You can’t read cursive script with those techniques.
(ii) Even slowing down to read the whole thing, some words I have to stare at for several seconds to decipher.
Maybe you’re deliberately taking a parabolic approach – someone has to really want to follow your train of thought if they’re going to make it to the end. For the rest, everything is in cursive font, so that they may be seeing but not perceiving, hearing not understanding, lest they should reach the end of the post… But I doubt it!
Anyway – welcome to your new blog!
Welcome to WordPress! If you need any help, let me know. I’ve been setting up blogs in WP for nearly two years now and have managed several times to climb out of complete template meltdowns! It really is a wonderful platform, though, with lots of flexibility.
BTW, this is weird: Karyn and I are sitting beside each other, both running Firefox on Mac. She is seeing “frou frou” font and I see nice clear Times Roman. I visited the blog for the first time just minutes ago, though. Perhaps you changed the font and Karyn’s just isn’t refreshing?
Or Karyn says I probably don’t have the frou frou font on my computer. Looking over at her screen, I say, “Lucky me!” ;-)
Ah, an expert! I may well need to ask advice at some point, though at the moment I think I know what I need to do, I just haven’t quite got the time to get round to it.
Okay, so it doesn’t seem to let you reply to specific comments to form a thread?
So, thanks everyone, I’m hearing you loud and clear on the font. Though to James I say, ‘People skim-read my blog?!?’ Shame on them! And also – really? I skim read cursive text all the time. It’s called handwriting. I honestly don’t find this difficult to read, but it looks like I’m the only one. :(
Aah – you want comments that handle conversation threads. You want Drupal then… ;-)
Can’t wait, Ros!
this is a VAST improvement. Thank you.
And just for the record, i do NOT skim-read… I just read the headlines on my RSS feed reader and see if i’ll be even vaguely interested…
Agree with Mark – font is much better. And I prefer this layout to the old one on blog.co.uk as well. Thanks for taking the trouble to lay things out nicely for us readers!
By the way, who brought skim-reading into it? I mentioned speed reading which is a different animal altogether?
“… but for those on the outside, everything is in RSS headlines…”
Sorry for the lateness of this comment–I’m very behind in blog reading at the moment!–but a hearty congratulations on the new blog! I love WordPress and hope you have lots of fun playing with it.
P.S. I think blogs were invented expressly for conversational theology…