TheWayOfCoding.com

I've made a few half hearted attempts over the years to to fix Blogger's Notable theme's rendering of the pop-up header that shows up when you scroll down the page a decent amount and then pull back to reveal that secondary header. On Chrome mobile I noticed a gray box that forms next to the magnifying glass icon. I never looked in detail on  Chrome desktop, but it had an issue as well which I'll detail below.  If you are looking for a solution and don't want all of the extra talk about how I was able to find it, here it is:  .centered-top-container .sticky .main_header_elements { overflow : hidden !important ; } I decided to try using Gemini Pro 2.5 to see if it was capable of finding the issue and giving me a fix. Turns out that it was able, but it took a bit of collaboration back and forth to find the actual problem.  Here is a modified article I asked it to give me based on our debugging chat (it was very colorful in the article which I scaled back a lot, ...

Thanks to the new functionality I am able to use the free blogger.com blogs as a website. It’s all thinks to functionally they added after Google acquired them. For example I created a custom template for my sister’s graphic/fashion/photography design website. In this post I’ll go over the basics that allow this to work. Google allows custom domain names. This means the whole website can have a professional look and feel because all links connected to the site will look like www.nameofsite.com/revrefvrv/dfvdfvd… etc. The use of labels, conditional statements, and the database data that blogger allows to be accessed through the template system. To make a standard website I started with the simplest of the pre-created templates modifying it to suit my needs. I removed a lot of the functionality like comments, backlinks, and whatever else. For a basic website you first need some links to blocks of site content. I generally hard code them into the template. Now if you’ve used the ne...