I am obsessed with a new toy now and its name is Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS for short.

I am determined to create my own custom template. So far, things are fine. The problem is that I want to completely FIX certain parts of the page, like the navigation bar and past entries, while allowing the entry block to scroll. Only, I don't want an inline scroll. And it seems apparent that this is not yet possible, so I am tres disgruntled. Le sigh.

I have decided to embrace my inner french. Or frenchness. Frenchnicity? Whatever. Suppose that meshes well with this entries theme, eh? Look at that! I am French-Canadian! Woo! Go Quebec!

So oui, other than designing a template annoying me to the point of wanting to bomb the microsoft headquarters, all is well in diaryland. I am mostly satisfied with my current template, though I am not yet finished personalizing it. I just want one that is fully me. This one comes close, but it isn't quite it, eh.

Been reading more diary review pages. Some of them, while good, really piss me off, because they are annoyed by simplistic and mostly intentional grammar mistakes. Ordinarily, these mistakes bother me as well, but there are times when sentence fragments are entirely intentional. Your diary is where you display personality and your way of thinking. Sorry, but everyone thinks in fragments sometimes.

I personally feel the diary should display that and convey EXACTLY how one would speak out loud. Granted, this should be used in moderation, but I much more enjoy diaries where the writing is informal enough to sense how the writer would speak to me, if they were reading the words.

One example that I shall not name right now gets annoyed when people ::do this:: to convey an action. She feels that people should rely on sentences to describe the action. I think that's horseshit. If i want to freaking sigh, or if i sigh in conversation, I do not outright state, "This is the point during which i sigh." No, I just do it. As I feel that diaries should read as though they were spoken, action brackets are the best way to convey such thoughts, since really, they are not thoughts. They are ACTIONS.

Grammar freaks, in some cases, drive me nuts. Ironic, since I, too, can be a grammar nut. It drives me nuts when the critic reviews as though they were reviewing someone's thesis, instead of someone's very privately public thoughts. If mistakes are largely unintentional and rampant, yes, that would freak me out too, and I would run far, far away. But reviewers? Seriously, some of you need to lighten up a bit and allow one's personality to shine through, instead of trying to make everyone a slave to the english syntax. The aim of society should be LESS drones, nein?

Yep. Now I am german again. Returned to my roots.