Miss Debbie! Tear down those borders!

So as you might have noticed, (or not depending on how observant you are) I have removed the borders around all the images on this blog! Yaaaaaay!!!

 

When I first started this blog, I thought that the borders around the pictures were a nice touch and I was surprised that other blogs didn't even have any borders around their pictures. (I thought I was special ) But when I added emoticons and gifs to my blog, the borders around EVERYTHING looked extremely tacky in my opinion...

So, I did what any sensible person would do and looked up what to do to remove the borders from photos on blogger. Of course since nothing about computers makes sense to me and (apparently because I have such a hard time reading and following directions ), I also looked up a video which, even though wasn't in English, served its purpose and helped me figure out how to remove the borders.

TIP: When messing around with your template on blogger make sure that you paste the line of code given in the section for CSS and NOT the section for HTML. (Yeah, anyone could make that mistake right? L-) Guess not...)

I spent a while trying to figure this out, even though I was staring at the picture of what to do/where to go for a good 5 minutes.

After finally figuring out how to follow directions, my blog went from this:

To this:

Awesome right? So now you can still enjoy what this blog has to offer, but with no borders attached! B-) Yeah I just thought of that myself :>

Awww... Don't get bored with my jokes...

Haha see what I did there again? 

Oh! Speaking of tacky... have you seen this music video by Weird Al?

Have an awesome day everyone! 

Side Note: Have you also noticed that I've been using some really cute inline gifs? I found them all at Super Kawaii Emoticon!! Check them out, if you want to add some extra cuteness to your blog! 

Side Note 2: I just wanted to add that the other day, I was just made aware of the fact that Google is more awesome than I had thought originally. So, the other day, the internet at my school decided to be a jerk and not work, even though I had work to do! So as I was disconnecting and about to reconnect my laptop to the internet, two my of friends said that they had discovered a game that you can play on Google Chrome, when not connected to the internets. So I didn't connect to the internet and I refreshed the page I was on and lo and behold... There was that dinosaur logo that you might have come across once or twice before when the internet decides to aggravate you... Nothing special here right?

But press spacebar, while on this window and then voila!

Game time!

Of course this picture does not do this amazing discovery any justice, so here's a gif of me playing the game!

Let me just tell you that there are no magically spawning cacti in the game... It's not that tricky.

So go on and discover this game for yourself! 

WARNING: It's very addicting (well for me at least) (≧◡≦)

 I was told that the dinosaur represents how prehistoric life would be without the internet... pretty deep stuff...

No... INTERNETS??????

UPDATE!!: What I just wrote above is wrong... Apparently no internet connection means that it's sooo ancient that it's practically a dinosaur!

Big gaff on my part... Ooops... Thanks for the correction Amanda + and Amanda -!!!!

This is probably how the internet is going to look like in the future ^_^

P.S: If anyone needs any help with anything having to do with blogging (or otherwise), feel free to contact me! Whether it is through my facebook page or my email address, I'll do my best to help! I'm still a newbie, but at least two heads are better than one, right?

To Use or Not to Use... A Jump Break? That is the question!

First off pardon my poor excuse of a parodied Hamlet quote. (It is soo clichéd that I bet that you all are barfing all over the computer screen over my clichéd-ness...?)

But, onto the subject at hand: Jump Breaks! What are they? What do bloggers or other-website-using-people use this for?

Since I'm a new blogger in town, I really had no idea what jump breaks were and what they were used for either, just like most of you probably. Heh. The first thing that came to mind was someone taking a break after jumping? But, that has nothing to with blogging, so that was a defunct idea... But now I know! Because I'm a genius duh! Because I looked it up, like a responsible human being.

So, if you didn't click on that link that I conveniently placed above this line, because you're too lazy to do it, I'll tell you anyway! 

A Jump Break is a function that can easily be found in Blogger as a "torn-up-piece-of-paper-symbol," and it acts as a way to make your page look a lot neater than it already is. Think of it as "virtual housekeeping" or cleaning your room...only online.

Jump Break Symbol. AKA: a wasted piece of paper

It can take your page from looking like this:

Look at me! I'm an open book!

To this:

Oooh mysterious...

Notice the fact that there is a "Read more" link at the bottom of the second post. Also note that the "Read more" link pops up automatically and is a feature of putting in a jump break in a post.

Should I use this nifty housekeeping tool? Probably. If my actual room is of any indication or a reflection of my blog, then definitely. But why? When I can follow the paths of other blogs before me like Hyperbole and a Half, The Accidental Olympian, Chicken Maker, or The Bloggess. They don't use it! And besides logically speaking, even if a benefit of the jump break is to make my blog more convenient to the reader, wouldn't it be much safer to assume that that the reader is tired of clicking buttons, going to skim the entire blog and move on? Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of having a blog? Does anyone take into account how many buttons the reader has to click on before ending up on my blog, only to click on even more buttons just to read the content that the reader was thirstily seeking?

That hardly seems fair. So in my case, for the convenience of the reader, I'll just keep my blog the way it is. Because chances are that after a long day doing whatever you guys do out there, you don't want to click an endless barrage of buttons! 

You're welcome.

Oh and now you know how to use a jump break... Yay!

P.S: If you guys really want me to use a jump break, I'd do it. But you know how my laziness is...

P.P.S: I know I'm talking to myself, because I have no followers yet...

P.P.P.S: I'm sad...