tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71746206815107234532024-09-05T23:33:15.168-05:00Status updates for my bass fishing blog, i am a bass fisherman <br>Get a look at what goes on behind the scenes.BassFishingDemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03302052020793372268noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174620681510723453.post-22970569029037208172011-01-06T05:39:00.003-06:002011-01-06T05:48:09.265-06:00

Some time in mid-December, Blogger enabled mobile versions of templates in Blogger in Draft. What this allows is a more refined layout for anyone who visits a blog on a mobile device. The mobile template does not obey all of the theme trends, especially in a custom template like mine, so it reverts to a simplified version. At least it places my header at the top. If you blog on Blogger, to access

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My Facebook profile is currently being held hostage by Facebook developers as they perform "maintenance." I get the classic screen showing that my profile will be back up in a few hours. Even my Fan Page is affected. It's been like this since early this afternoon, so it is obviously taking more than a few hours to deal with on their end. It's one thing for a personal user to have no access to

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I shifted some stuff around the top of the blog this evening. Hopefully no visitors were confused at any point. Subscription links are now at the top of the page along with the Feedburner counter (even though Feedburner has been wonky lately). The Statcounter and TopFishingSites banners are now side by side. Everything else is essentially unchanged, although I did move the Outbrain code to the

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Found this searching Google Gadgets. Make sure you click the ? symbol for help. Left and right arrows move the boat. Up and down arrows move your line. Watch fuel usage. Catch a limit. Good time waster.

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I was getting frustrated with the header image because the text just didn't look right. While that text in my header has drawn a lot of fire in the past, I continue to feel that the message needs to remain clear. Can't lose sight of what got me blogging in the first place.So the new header lightens things up a bit. I gave it a slicker look with a different font of a lighter tone. I moved the text

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I periodically check to make sure my site loads properly in other browsers. My blog did not look right in IE 6. Although Internet Explorer 6 is an outdated browser, many visitors appear to still be using it. Even some government computers still have IE 6 installed. Because a significant number of visitors are still using IE 6, I figured I had better investigate and fix one problem with my

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The comment form was nice, but one bug has been getting on my nerves over the last few months. For anyone using their Google/Blogger account to leave a comment, they have to be logged in ahead of time. If they aren't logged in, it's impossible to log in via the comment form setup. The thing is, most of the time, these visitors aren't aware they are not logged in, so they write up a comment and

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Feedburner offers a feed subscription service with email delivery. The subscription form and links can be found in the sidebar for each individual blog. Since adding this feature, feed (at) emailalias.cjb.net has been the feed delivery email I have used. Some email spam filters may interpret that address as junk mail, so starting today, my feed will be delivered via my gmail address, bassdem (at)

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I recently discovered that there is an apparent bug in the Blogger commenting system related to embedded comments. When anyone visits a Blogger blog and decides to post a comment via an embedded comment form, they are presented with a field to type their comment and a drop down menu to select an identity. The first one on the list in the drop down menu is Google Account. If you are already logged

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Since starting this blog, I've observed an interesting phenomenon that only occurs certain times of the year. The thing about bass fishing is that it's a very seasonal sport. Anglers can be just as finicky as their bass counterparts when it comes to weather. At some point during late summer, visits start to dwindle. Most of my hits come from Google searches, not subscribers or repeat visitors, so

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Life has been busy for me lately, so posting has not been a priority. With the Summer heat kicking in, I do not plan to fish as often as I'd like. Morning and evening hours are more comfortable and do not require repeated applications of sunblock. Afternoon temperatures creep up into the 90's and very few clouds help block out the sunshine. It can be brutal and skin cancer is not on my list of

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I have expanded my horizons yet again. I signed up on Facebook. I think it's funny that I went to Twitter before Facebook, but now I'm on both, so there you have it. Not everyone uses Myspace. Not everyone understands Twitter. I'm sure quite a few readers or visitors are on Facebook. I'm not sure how I will use Facebook. I uploaded lots of images and a few videos on Myspace already. I'm not

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If you have visited my blog in the last 24 hours, you might have noticed something new. I went to work on a header image in Photoshop yesterday. It's still a little quirky because I can see some minor pixelation around the letters. Otherwise, I think it looks pretty good. I also edited the post on taking the Shimano Callisto apart. I covered taking off things from the handle side. I went all the

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My intro at the top of my blog which describes how to get around was not being properly displayed in IE7. Nobody let me know. I found out when I saw a screen shot of my page in my BlogCatalog profile. What went wrong?I had the text set to justify. Justified text is a well known problem area among web developers. Some browsers just don't know what to do with it. I use Safari and Firefox on a Mac.

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It was a neat script and very useful from a navigation perspective, but not very practical, nor very popular. As the number of posts at my blog grows, so will the size of the TOC. The amount of information the script has to load will continue to increase. I ran a poll a couple of months ago about whether or not people use the TOC. Not only does it appear that people avoid the TOC, but they also

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I just scheduled two posts for later this week. The first is on the official start of the fishing season here in Louisiana. Although we really never stopped, March is when everything takes off. I have a love/hate relationship with this phenomenon, so have a read when the post gets published.The second is on my solution for dealing with spinnerbait skirt strands that stick together. Line & Lure

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I'm not sure how successful this latest idea will be. I signed up on Twitter, a social networking site with real-time updates. There were just too many things going on with the blog that I wanted to post about here, but were too miniscule to really justify making an entire post. Twitter fills that void. The feed is listed in the sidebar at bassfishingdem.blogspot.com, but I will be adding it to

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Lefora.com underwent a server upgrade on January 27th. For a brief period, my forum was not available because of this upgrade. It seems that even after the upgrade, Lefora is still working out a few bugs. It looks like much of the site is still down. I keep getting a 404 error, so hopefully they will get everything back up and running properly soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Over the years, the online fishing community has largely been dominated by forums. If you can think of it, there is a forum dedicated to it. Of course, now you have many anglers becoming bloggers like myself. BassPundit makes it a habit to announce new Bassin' blogs he has come across. I add blogs to my list and keep a blogroll going with some of my favorite fishing blogs.While all of this is

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My 20# Gamma Copolymer has been misbehaving lately and I am going through it pretty fast. I was also in the market for some more Zoom Super Flukes, some higher test Halo, and some line conditioner. I hit up one of the local tackle stores, you know, to show my support of the little guy during these hard times, and ended up getting different items.They did not carry any Gamma line, but they did

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I've been meaning to do a quick test with my line in a cold weather scenario to see how they perform. I'm not going to be very scientific about it, but I had the opportunity to give it a try this morning. Air temps were 28 degrees when I started and 31 when I quit. The reason why I wanted to do this sort of test was because I had a bad experience in 35-40 degree weather with Yo-Zuri Hybrid in 20#

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It looks like HitsUnlimited is down yet again. The site went down a while back and I posted a blog about it. Well it seems this morning, the site is not responding and the image will not load on my page. The last time the site went down, it was MIA for about a week if I'm not mistaken. Patience is our only option.HitsUnlimited is a site that provides a listing of many fishing and other outdoorsy

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The load time for the Table of Contents on my main blog is considerably long. The code is a 3rd party script and beyond my scope of expertise. I noticed that when my blog loads, there is a delay at the point when the TOC widget comes up. In Safari's Activity window, I noticed that the TOC is now roughly around 400k. After 250+ posts, I'm actually not all that surprised. The problem is that when

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I am toying with the idea of using Snapshots (http://www.snap.com). The blogger at Rattletrap Ramblings uses them and I have seen these little previews all over the net. I'm sure you have too. I know my blog is already overloaded with add-ons, but I have a very specific purpose in mind for snapshots if it is possible. Apparently Snapshots has something called Mapshots. If I can integrate Google

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I uploaded all of the photos to my Myspace photo album. Then I created a slideshow using Slide.com. The slide show has been added to the post titled "Back To Basics: Spooling A Baitcaster" and I added some instructions to help visitors.

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