Modding on the Spectrum

Good day, all! Just posted: the final story - for now - in this collection of The Adventures of Etienne.

The Blood of Mor - viewtopic.php?p=1575#p1575

Fully illustrated! I hope you enjoy it!

Happy Birthday, Ivanhoe1955SI!

Happy Birthday, Ivanhoe!

I took over a week off. I will use about one half of the vacation to work on my modding projects and maybe play video games for example and I spend the rest of the time visiting my mom.

The vacation has begun a few days ago and I already finished a couple of things from my to-do list. The first one was releasing the update for Spectral Music Player. The second one was finding better image slider and lightbox plugins for my two blogs.

And today, I gave the blog posts of Selene's Shadow Realm a more centered layout (centered featured images and centered post info containing the author and the tags). It took me a lot of time to realize that these items where set to float left in the theme's CSS file. After I unset the float property I could center the contents in question with "display: flex;" and "justify-content: center;".

For illustrative purposes, here's the CSS code snippet for the post info: I've just learned a new thing while I inserted the code snippet: inserting the tab space is possible with the Alt + Numpad 0 + Numpad 9 key combo.
https://superuser.com/questions/186152/ ... a-web-page

Good day, all! I just posted a new little story, The Footsteps on the Stairs - viewtopic.php?p=1650#p1650
Something a little bit different from my others. I hope you enjoy it!

I was looking forward to my art therapy group that should take place today. I waited about a quarter of an hour, but no one appeared. Then, luckily, I had the idea to ask one of the employees. It turned out that the group leader is ill and somehow I was not notified .

So I take the next tram to the city center and then i stroll around a bit.

Good day, all! A new story up and posted for you all:

The Jungle - viewtopic.php?p=1666#p1666

Getting a little more serious, with this one.

And too bad the formatting doesn't allow for proper punctuation and indenting of paragraphs. Which is the same for almost all internet sites - so not a complaint about the Spectrum (Selene is doing a great job and is just using what is available ) - a complaint about the nit-wits who design the programs that are used by sites.

smr1957 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:29 pm And too bad the formatting doesn't allow for proper punctuation and indenting of paragraphs.

You can indent paragraphs actually. The default forum software can't do that. That's why I implemented a custom indent BBCode (I removed it from the formatting options bar to declutter it but the code is still available).

What do you mean with "proper punctuation" exactly?

Selene310187 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:02 pm

smr1957 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:29 pm And too bad the formatting doesn't allow for proper punctuation and indenting of paragraphs.

You can indent paragraphs actually. The default forum software can't do that. That's why I implemented a custom indent BBCode (I removed it from the formatting options bar to declutter it but the code is still available).

What do you mean with "proper punctuation" exactly?

That was what I meant - the indentation of paragraphs - really bugs me on all sites - it is not specific to here.

And while it may be available, it is still a pain to use - better just inserting a space. The writings of the programs need it to recognize when there is an indent for a paragraph when pasting or to just be able to use standard tab for spacing - like all writing programs use. But that is not something that you can do - that needs to be done in the actual coding of the software being used.

Don't sweat it, Selene - you do a great job - I was just venting a bit.