Victim of the Blogger

So what do you folks think of the new layout? I decided on the spur of the moment that the blog needed a more professional feel to it, instead of a makeshift rag tag assembly. Unfortunately my knowledge of html, java and css is near null so this has been a hair tearing experience, however in its completion it has induced me in a euphoric joy. The task has been greatly slowed down by the fact that I am using a public internet connection which probably every block near me is using, luckily I only have to put up with the cons of bad internet for two weeks and good polish beer easily compensates for such a predisposition. Among some of the new features are as listed:

• The home page will only display a small segment of the 7 latest articles with a thumbnail of the first picture, all in chronological order, either click the article title or the read more button to bring up the entire article.
• Complete Aesthetic redesign, it is pretty much a collection of numerous blogs coding and material, which I have then changed the colour of to black, I feel it looks much nicer than before.
• The recommended post service provided by Outbrain, will now display a thumbnail of a picture of the article, hopefully pictures will incentive people to read more articles instead of dull text.
• I now have a sharing button, on the homepage it is the standard blogger buzz this, email this etc, however when you enter a post there should more of a selection and laid out more presentable.
•  The search feature now should present my blog and those on the fellow bloggers widget as the top results then generic google results however it doesn't seem to be functioning now, although I got it to work on my test run, strange hopefully will be sorted.
• One click away from seeing the posts as rss then subscribing to them.

However now I have created a list of problems, so if any of you are any good at this sort of stuff get in contact with me internecide@gmail.com

• Static Pages always say read more, when you click on read more it does not display the whole thing, as such static pages are temporarily disabled, I have tried all the fixes on the net but none seem to work, probably doing it wrong.
• The search bar is kaput 
• The comment system is way at the bottom of the page after the recommendations, and the share this options, I would like to bump it up above both.
• Opera browser still has comparability issues nothing new, but a shame otherwise I would use it.
• So far this it, however any problems either leave a comment or email me @ internecide@gmail.com

Thanks for bearing with me and sorry for not posting, but tinkering instead, however enjoy this video

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Grind to Death 3.0

Welcome to Grind to Death's new overhaul, sadly for me all these little tweaks have consumed hours of my time, however I have learnt many things. I am sure the first thing you noticed was the new logo which has replaced the original header. This was entirely created by me using a combination of two wonderful programs, Paint.net and Pixlr. Although this is a musical blog, I must say that these two programs are highly recommended if anyone wants to do any graphical work, the first is a desktop program which is free and the second is a amazing web based service, both come highly recommended as Paint Shop Pro alternatives. The logo looks very black metal like, which is ironic since the blog is not black metal orientated, however the visual themes used in black metal are very appealing to myself. The only image that has a purpose are the Capricorn which represent myself being a Capricorn, everything else is there only to make it look nice(I hope).
 Another change I have implemented is that there is only one post per page, as I usually elaborate my posts with images, hyperlinks and videos, it has a high amount of data, I would like to keep this anti-minimalist feature rich Blog, but I don't wont to make it a burden on my viewers, so by limiting it to one post per page it optimises the site to only relay the relevant material and features and no dead weight information.
The Navbar has made a return, to be honest I don't even remember getting rid of it, must of done it by accident somehow.
Other change in features include a search bar, and a tag cloud instead of a tag list, as the list was starting to get too long, I have also removed the label sphere, although it was my favourite feature it seemed to have stopped functioning and I can't fix it.
All in all html coding and JavaScript coding are royal pain in the assess, hope you guys like the alterations, feel free to complain, if need be.

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Site Revamp!

Hello fellow readers, for those of you who have been on the site before you may notice now that it has been totally revamped. Just as I promised in my very first post here, I will continually Strive to make my blog as good as I can, some of the new features are as follows:

Label Sphere: This label sphere has replaced my previous one with a more customizable and preferable one it may found here, and is highly recommended.
Labels: A exhaustive list of all my labels and with a counter on them to identify how many times each has appeared, labels such as post # have been removed, to make it more aesthetic and compact.
Google Chat: I Have added the Google Chat feature, This website is not only here to read reviews, it is to meet like minded people. If you have any queries, requests or just want to chat then feel free to do so!

Comments: I have coded in the Intense Debate commenting feature, I am not sure whether this restricts those without an Intense Debate account, however after looking through the features I thought this was a must have for my blog not only because of functionality but also because of aesthetics.
Layout: I have taken the granite layout option which can be downloaded here, although fellow bloggers I suggest you look through the whole selection the website has to offer at My Template Box.
Starring System: I took the starring system from Outbrain, and am very impressed with it, feel free from now on to leave comments and rate my reviews.

On the whole all these features where not too hard to install, and I am very grateful that people have posted how to implement them, thus saving me hours of time wasted on attempting to do so single handedly. I still intend to integrate many other features into my blogs. Firstly I would love to have a chat box, that way people can leave generalised comments, I will also be creating a gadget which has links to other blogs and websites (email/message/comment me any sites you wish me to include), The most important feature I wish to do which I have already started although possibly may scrap is a banner, something aesthetic which people can identify with this site. Another feature is a icon in the far left of the address bar, although this will also require a fair amount of thought. A Button to show that this blog now produces RSS feeds and Atom feeds. A search bar also. Well for now I leave you readers as I plan my Uni work and next album review which if you are lucky may be tonight.

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