:( Trying to Customize My Blog :(

Since starting this blog to learn more about different aspects of Web 2.0, I decided that I would learn more if I customized my blog. Not to mention, that I was quite jealous of some of the really beautiful blogs that I saw when I browsed some of the other CPL bloggers sites. WOW! Some of you really know your stuff.

I even had a much more knowledgeable staff member help me. We found some really great free blog templates through google. All we (really she) had to do was copy the HTML (control + C) and then go into my dashboard; click customize; click HTML; select all (control + A) and replace it with the saved HTML (control + V). No problem, I really am a whiz at copy and paste - so now that I could see where to go to find the HTML and then just copy and paste - it was a snap!

Do you think that this is the end of the story? Unfortunately not. When we went to view the blog, there was a banner just under the name of my blog. It did not appear in the preview of the template. This was a banner in German that was definitely NOT what I wanted on my blog and not an ideology that I would ever promote!!! It took her more than an hour to get rid of this banner, and then only because she was able to go back to the "classic blog" and then change my template to the one I had originally picked with blogger. Now every time I have tried to add anything to my blog - a list of tags in my posts; a picture at the top of the blog - this embedded image shows up on my blog.

The last time I tried to add something, I ended up making a new blog, copying and pasting my posts on it, and then deleting the original one. Then I made the original blog again and had to copy and paste my posts back on it. I am afraid of trying anything again, so I think I will practice on the second blog and keep my original one safe.

Thanks for reading my rant! Has anyone else had issues like this?

Thinking about what we will learn - hmmm?

Which aspect of Web 2.0 are you the most intrigued (or scared) by?

I am intrigued with some of the aspects that I know the least about. For example, twitter which I know that you can follow the tweets from someone, but I really don't know more than that about it. It will be interesting to learn more and hopefully to come to more of an understanding as to why anyone would want to know what a person is doing during each part of the day. It seems almost like stalking someone to me, but I don't really know very much about how it works.

I am also looking forward to learning more about searching on delicious, how rss feeds work, more about Google universe (hopefully something about Google docs that we may be using more in the future), online productivity tools and library thing.

Well, here goes ... my first blog post. And now I have to wait for the next thing. I will try to be patient and maybe I will be lucky and win the IPOD, so I can try out downloadable audio books!!!