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Thursday, October 30, 2025

About Our New SolderSmoke Blog Template

About 17 years ago, when I set up the SolderSmoke blog, I wanted three columns.  Google Blogger/Blogspot didn't seem to have one, so I expanded my search.  I ended up using an external (to blogspot) template.  All was well until recently the SolderSmoke blog started to look kind of strange.  

I consulted with Peter VK3TPM.  He looked at the code and concluded that it was probably a problem with the external template.  He suggested just changing the template to one that is provided by Google Blogspot.   I didn't want to get into a lot of digital troubleshooting and fruitless calls to help lines, so that is what I did.  

The new template seems to work well.  There are (kind of) three columns.  I kept most of the widgets from the old blog.  I cleaned it up a bit.  I think it looks pretty good.  

Thanks Peter for the good advice. 

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Looking for a Web Person to Create a WordPress Staging/Backup site for this blog.


I can supply the backup files and the Template backup.  I need someone who can create a backup site for this blog.   I think it should be in WordPress.  It should include all the posts and comments, pictures and videos in the current blog.  It would be great if it used the same Template as the current blog.  I want to keep the current blog going indefinitelty, but we need a backup site that could be used if Google suddenly decides to "deprecate" blogspot. 

Please let me know if you can help or if you know someone who can.  We will pay.  We can discuss this before any work begins.  

Thanks.  73  Bill