The Giving Props sidebar widget block finally has content!
Took me long enough, huh? 
It’s still not 100% done, but it’s close! 
Have a look!
~ EMG
Afterthought: Maybe I should clone that Giving Props block and import a copy to the main site here…
After installing Google Analytics to my website and blog site…
I started noticing some strange layout loading problems on my sites.
Namely, these problems specifically involve my entire site loading approximately 25 to 50px vertically lower than it should.
The topbar main navigation should be hugging the top, right? And before I installed Google Analytics, it was. All the time. And then I installed Google Analytics and it wasn’t anymore – not consistently anyways.
So yeah.
After experimenting with some coding and doing some research, my conclusion is that because the Google Analytics is installed in the header of the page (meaning, it loads before any of my site contents do), its loading can sometimes interfere with the rendering of my website.
Sorry about that everyone!
Reloading the page always does the trick and resets the layout back to normal as the Analytics has already had a chance to load on the first load and therefore doesn’t and can’t interfere with the reload.
I will continue to investigate a way to solve this issue, but until then, I thought I would share a bit of news.
~ EMG
So uhmmm… whooops?
The newer version of the WordPress-specific AddThis coding (the one you can manually add to your posts that uses the php echo?) does NOT validate through W3C. It WORKS, but because of the ampersand and perhaps something else, W3C is going bonkers over it, offering up anywhere between 5 to 9 errors on account of it.
So if you visit the blog and validate it and see a million AddThis validation errors? That’s why.
And oh yes, the ‘Print’ functionality does not work for a single post if you have the AddThis coding enabled on say your main blog page where it appears multiple times – once on each post.
Instead of printing that one post, it will print the entire page – whooops!
I hope AddThis fixes that soon!
~ EMG
Heck yeah!
The Emotiomental Graffiti blog is now ready to GO LIVE!
Custom search and 404 pages have all been ironed out and 99.9% of the CSS tweaking that was left to be done at last update has now been completed.
What’s left is the background stuff that nobody’s going to run into more than likely, which I will finish cleaning up later.
But for now, the BLOG IS LIVE!
~ EMG
Okay…
So I was wrong.
THIS is the last update for today.
The Emotiomental Graffiti blog is going to get a re-theme very soon and I believe that it will share the same theme as this portion of the site or a modified version of this theme.
Logically and in terms of continuity within the site, it makes the most sense, so… yeah.
Blog update will be coming up soon!
~ EMG
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