Sometimes the hardest lesson is learning how little you know. That’s been the case for me with this latest blog theme customization.

I didn’t think it would be all that difficult to make a few changes to the theme. The font color changes were easy enough; no surprises there. The header graphic presented a few small surprises, but it wasn’t too difficult.

However, that darn background is another story all together! It’s still not right.

And then there was the big surprise. After a good number of hours tweaking and redoing and tweaking again, it occurred to me that I hadn’t even looked at the changes an alternate browser. And what a disappointment when I did! What looked pretty darn good in Firefox was a huge mess in Internet Explorer. Thankfully it was a minor coding error that I quickly located and fixed.

In the process I’ve learned a lot more about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), relying on the tutorials at W3 Schools. But I still only know just enough to be dangerous.

Oh yes…. the background…. it looks great in some screen resolutions and completely wrong in others. One fix for wide screens caused narrow screens issues. Maybe that custom color isn’t so important to me after all…..