I posted the day’s changes to the philosophy papers blog. As
promised, it looks rather different. Well, it looks a lot like this page, so I
guess that isn’t that different. I’m
now looking at the pages to see what the changes are, and I’m not going to post
anything that isn’t a substantive change. For instance, the fact that the title
of Nick Smith’s
papers page changed from “N. J. J. Smith” to “Nicholas J. J. Smith” is no
longer going to get a link. (On that page!)

The reason the page looks like this one is that
there were things I was trying to do with the formatting that I could do on
this page that I couldn’t do on that page. I thought it was a template issue,
so I just copied this template to that page. That didn’t help. I think it was
because I bought out the ads on this page, and left that as an ad-supported
blog. So the template changed and I still didn’t know how to do what I wanted.
So I quickly learned as much HTML as I needed (not much, it turns out) and
wrote the page as it is. Previously I’d been writing updates in Word, getting
Word to tell me the source code, and pasting that into Blogger. This works for
this blog but not for that blog. (And it’s the ugliest code you’ve ever seen. I’m
taking a Dreamweaver class tomorrow that apparently produces much nicer code,
so that may speed up the page-load times for the blog.) Hopefully writing the
day’s updates in HTML won’t be too much of a nightmare.