Chirky

So! The upside of not making changes to your website in two-and-a-half years is that everything works when you need it to work, simply because it always has worked, there never was any question about it.

The downside of not making changes to your website in two-and-a-half years is that when you get a wild hair and abruptly decide to start tinkering with it, you realize you've almost forgotten how to code, and suddenly nothing works as it should. And then there are LOTS of questions about it.

If you've been lingering around this site tonight, refreshing your screen maniacally (like me), you probably saw a few hundred iterations of Chirky flashing about, with columns misbehaving and links not working -- they're still not, at least not on the most recent entries, and I'm not quite sure what to do about that because I need to ask for HEEELLLLPPPP. My comments section chose the most inopportune time to lay itself to rest -- and hey! Did you notice my shiny new ads section?

It's kind of hard not to notice right now, and I hate that - ads should blend in, not stick out like, um, well, like that wild hair that abruptly made me start tinkering with everything to begin with -- but my goal is to get them to migrate to the far right, where they'll be a bit less obtrusive. I'm expecting the migration to go a little slowly, though, because all the coding tricks up my sleeve (plus the how-to guides I read online) haven't worked yet. Which, I mean, you think that they would. Just change column a to column c, shift everything else to the left a bit, et voila! My site is broken. I've tried that.

So if you're skilled at coding in Movable Type, and maybe you were perusing the Internet looking for the culprit responsible for breaking the Internet, email me (or leave a comment by clicking here)! I have no idea what I'm doing!

Updated to Add: My links! They are working! But I somehow lost my right sidebar. Hey, you've got to give a little and take a little, right?