Css code is very picky. Leave out a curly bracket and the browser will not read the rest of the code. Place a colon where a semi-colon should go and things get crazy.

I have had some display issues with the footer in my blogs. I had built a skin.css file and added it to the folder. I got the file path right and the skin was working except for the footer. I never could figure out why it didn’t work, but it was only the footer image that I could not get to display, so I passed it off as unimportant. I just shrugged as thought that was the way it was going to work. There are several levels of folders to a WordPress blog. I thought maybe it was something in one of the other folders that was causing the problem.

I just set up the new Live Sound Mixing Tips blog. While setting it up I was making some tweaks and adjustments. I was looking in my skin.css file that I had copied to the folder and noticed that there was a closing curly brace missing on my nav rule. I put in the missing brace and updated the file. When I checked the site I had my footer background image as I had often wished.

Somewhere along the line (a few times, I am sure) I typed a colon where the code calls for a semi-colon. That does not work, I promise.

I have been going through my other blogs making the correction and a few other tweaks this evening. I am beginning to be quite comfortable with the untheme theme. I will copy the fresh css files to my blog master copy, the one that I copy to a new location when I set up a new blog. That will save a lot of time the next time that I set up a blog.

I went a little further than I have with my other blogs on the Mixing Tips blog. Check it out and tell me what you think.

I have established a new blog for my Mixing Live Sound site. The Blog title is ‘Live Sound Mixing Tips‘. This is a long tail search term that I see occasionally in my analytics reports, so I should rank well for the term with the blog. This might draw a few additional visitors to the site.

I will be posting tips to help with mixing live sound. I hope to post at least once a week to the blog. I will try to end the posts on an interrogative note to elicit comments. Good comments are free original content for the blog, and the more content the better.

I have also given an invitation for guest posts on the topic of live sound for the blog. I hope that some will take me up on the offer. That is an other way to add content and value to a blog.

I spent a bit of time this evening setting this one up. I had deleted the old blog folder on the server after the break-in to my site. It was an earlier version and required immediate update  anyway. But I had most of the tweaks done to that one. I keep a base file on the server and copy it to any site where I want to place a blog. WordPress is a major piece of software so it takes a bit of time to upload. Copying on the server is very fast, so it saves a good bit of time to upload once and then copy where needed. There is a one click install option available from my host, but with the one click install a new database is created for each blog. By installing the blog myself I can share a database between several blogs. There are 100 databases available to me with my hosting account, but why use them needlessly?

If you are interested in sound check out the new blog. You are, of course, welcome to check it out even if the subject matter is out of your field of expertise. Tell me what you think about it.