This Blog Again

If you have been keeping up with this blog or are new to it and are getting confused by some previous posts, allow me to explain. This blog's old template was annoying and not very customizable, so I decided to use a different template, one that was supplied by Blogger, just to make life easier. I like it and now the number of comments also show up with every post. Well, I think that there was something else I wanted to mention about this, but I have been trying to remember it for about ten minutes now, so I will just not mention it. Have a nice day. Oh and one more thing, I keep forgetting to post the "Top of Page" thing on the end of

Disqus

A few days ago I was chatting with someone on my blog and found out that the comment system I had wouldn't quite let you post a comment.  The captcha you were required to fill out wasn't working correctly and the box you were supposed to type it into wasn't there.  I decided I will use Disqus instead, I use it for another one of my sites and thought it would be easy enough.  For the most part it was, but I came to one small problem; previously the bar on top of a post would look something like this:

The number of comments would be shown, but when I added Disqus, the numbers would remain the same even if there were more comments.  For example, when I clicked the "comments (1)" link it showed me two comments.

I knew I couldn't just leave it like that so i tried to fix it, but I could not.  I tried for a long time to fix it to no avail.  I finally just decided to take off the comments thing, but then I realized I could just make it say "Comments," so I made it like that.  However it would still be nice for it to show the number of comments there are so if you might know how to fix this, please tell me.

THE CODE
If you are interested in helping me, here is the code that was the default:

<SPAN class='comment-count'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>

<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<A class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>
<b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>
<data:top.commentLabel/> (1)<b:else/><data:top.commentLabelPlural/> (<data:post.numComments/>)
</b:if>
</A>
</b:if>
</b:if>

</SPAN>
</DIV>

Here is the code that is currently being used for it:

<SPAN class='comment-count'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>


<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<A class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>Comments
</A>
</b:if>
</b:if>


</SPAN>

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This Blog

Alright so, I got a new template for this blog, it's pretty cool looking but there are a few things that I don't like about it.

One of the main things I don't like about it is the comment box, you can't just scroll to the bottom to write a comment. You have to scroll to the top and then click where it says comments, and then it will reload the page with the comment box. That could get annoying though especially if you read the post and then you want to comment, but then if it was a big post, then you have to scroll to the top to click the comment button. I think I will start adding a "Top of Page" link to the bottom of all my posts to make it easier and if I can. I could probably go through the html/css coding to fix the comment thing, but it would take a long time and I don't want to waste my time doing that.

Let's see if this works....Top of Page I hope it works!

Alright, I just tested it, and it does work, so I will just add that to the bottom of all my posts and go back and add it to my "Lockerz.com" post.

Another thing I don't necessarily like about it is that for some reason or another, it made the search button text go white, so now it just looks like there is a search box with a blank button right next to it. Or at least it looks like that on my computer, leave a comment if it looks differently on yours. If it does look blank, it is supposed to say "Search" and you can see it if you highlight it with your cursor.

Now for the thing that isn't the template's fault but this website blogger.com's (or maybe it's my browser's fault I am not sure yet). Anyways, if you have made a blog using this site, then you are more likely to know what I am talking about. In the "Page Elements" tab of the "Layout" tab, it is a drag-and-drop interface, where as I choose where The posts and widgets go on the page. If you are reading this before I fix the problem, you will see that there are four side tab things that look like they are attached by binder-type rings and the first three are filled, but the fourth one is blank. This is because when I try to drag and drop anything, my cursor is about two inches below the item it is grabbing - this is hard to explain but I will try anyways - and I can't bring my cursor low enough as to where an item will fall into that fourth slot. If you know how to fix this problem, please, feel free to comment and tell me how.

Well I think that is all that I don't like about the template. If you want this template for your blog or another webpage thing, you can download it here http://www.raycreationsindia.com/template-details.aspx?templateid=8. Also I put a chat into this blog so just in case you randomly want to talk to me you can do so with that chat box. It is a private chat box and only you and I will be able to see the chat so don't mistake it for a public chat box. I don't really know how often I will put up posts either, but you can still follow this blog, right now I have no followers, so follow this and help make this blog more popular (even if you don't check back). Also if you have any suggestions of what I should talk about or do with my blog, feel free to comment, but please do not spam or curse, use anything inappropriate, or bad. The comments are monitored and will be deleted if I find it bad or offensive or inappropriate in anyway, and yes, I do consider cursing a bad thing, people need to be more mature than that.

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