I am doing you a favor. Seriously. I think you made excellent points in the post.
Your gold plating the post with colors and text boxes makes it look completely amateur. It looks horrid.
I have seen Indians dress up their elephants for parades less tacky. The posting looks like the idiot that designed the gay pride flag dropped acid and then became your style consultant.
Simple. Never again. The post has serious value and the content is valuable and your making it look like a Thai whorehouse detracts from it.
This is constructive criticism. As I said, the content has value. We are better for your posting it. We are lesser for having to look at the formatting you used.
As I said, your opinion? I worry little about one’s opinion of my formatting, because my aim is to make it look like a blog. It does, but instead of luring people away from FR, I do so using what FR offers.
I am confident in my writing skills, and that is all that matters to me.
I like my formatting, and I enjoy using a skill that is fading quickly. HTML.
I also figure, maybe someone will ask for help to design their profile, and thus they can then give it their own twist to personalize it.
We can turn FR into quite a unique forum compared to, and stop the ridicule of bloggers by fellow Freepers at the same time.
There are many Freepers who have great minds and would like to share their well thought out well written articles, but they are scared away by other Freepers who attack them for daring to post from a blog by claiming all they want is hits to their site.
Well, this should make them less agitated when they read something that isn’t written by a liberal writer from the Times or the Post, or other liberal sites. IF, that is truly their problem, because by visiting their Profile blog, FreeRepublic is getting the hits. Not a Google blog.
Maybe my idea, regardless of how quirky my formatting is, could actually be the motivation some Freeper to become the next conservative mind that writes great articles.
After all, we need more conservative writers.
Whoa now! I take issue that you made a comparison of the colors to a Thai whorehouse. I’ll have you know that you really can’t see much color in a Thai whorehouse as they are generally pretty dark and hard to see much. Um, er....that’s what a friend told me.