This is a Learn British English Free lesson in which Chris explains the difference between “look for” and “search (for)”.
Look for – more natural, common and informal (always with “for”) “I can’t find my car keys.” “Let’s look for them then”. “What are you looking for?” Search (for) – more formal (e.g. police) “The police are urgently searching for the suspect.” “The police were searching the area last night.” (verb without “for”) “The police conducted a thorough search of the property.” (noun)
This was the problem: You’d be searching for Field of Dreams, the critical standout film of 1989. But instead of Kevin Costner, you’d get rolling hills and wildflowers. That’s because we’re giving you the best stuff tagged #field or #dreams (or #of).
Here’s the solution: Choosing #tagged in the app bundles the whole phrase together. You just search for something and tap #tagged at the top of the screen to show posts tagged with that exact phrase.
And hey, slugger. Learn about the tons of other ways you can filter a search in our help center, here.
Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience.
I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.
thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me
ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video
The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.
This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.
“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.
If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?
I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“
i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!
it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.
INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.
Reminder that google is just a niche website by an evil company
How To Get Started on Building Your Family Tree Without Help From Elders
If you are like me, and do not have many elder family members to turn to for help in discovering your family history, here are a couple of things you can do to get yourself started.
Talk to siblings and cousins. Ask them for anything they remember, names, dates, addresses, cities, church/places of worship, schools, anything they can remember will be helpful.
Try and find any old objects: photos, papers, baby books, baptism, bible records-sometimes there is useful information written on the back of old photos and keepsakes such as dates, names, places.
Start charting it out. Write down what you know. Start a free family tree online. Or just get a piece of paper and a pen and start charting out what you already know so that you can transition that to an online tree or a free template downloaded from online.
What if you don’t have any siblings/cousins? If you don’t have any siblings or cousins, at least any that you are comfortable talking to, use yourself as a resource. What do you remember? Do you remember a last name, your grandmothers maiden name? A place your aunt or uncle may have lived with your grandparents? What church did they attend? Was it local? Even the most smallest thing that you can remember could be important.
Perhaps turn to the local genealogy society/group in your hometown, or your parents/grandparents hometown. Local groups can be a most valuable resource.
The beginning is usually the hardest, but use what you know, use these steps as a mini guide, and get started. Remember, you can be your own most valuable resource.
Customizable icons, chosen from Cappuccicons: 1 blog-wide icon, and up to 8 individually customizable links (see under the cut for how to add custom links)
Text options: choose between upper/lowercase for special text, Google and Tumblr fonts, and font sizes
Appearance options: customizable post widths and sidebar width, and a variety of color options, including an (optional) light/dark mode toggle
Optional title/avatar/description, search bar, like/reblog buttons, date/timestamps, tags, and Archive/Random links
Responsive
Supports new post types/pinned posts
And more!
See more about how to customize this theme and theme credits under the cut. For additional help, feel free to send me an ask.
Customization of icons in general:
Icons are taken from Cappuccicons. To customize them, find an icon you like from the Cappuccicons page; then, insert the text name of that icon into an icon field, following the pattern of the pre-filled icons.
For example, the screenshots above use “flash-o” and “paw” for “Main Theme Icon”. They’re visible just under the navigation (and in place of the color mode toggle, if it’s disabled).
Make sure you DON’T include quotes around the name! Write flash-o and not “flash-o” in the relevant fields.
Customization of custom pages/navigation:
For the navigation under the description box, you can choose to use either (1) the inbuilt Tumblr pages or (2) manually enter links using the fields provided in the theme options.
To use option 1, turn “Standard navigation icons” on., then add links using Tumblr’s “add a page” option (see here for a guide).
This method technically allows for infinite links; however, I strongly recommend you have only 8 or fewer links, so that they don’t overflow the sidebar.
All links will use the same icon, the one listed in the “Standard navigation icon” text field (“link” by default).
The text entered in “Show a link to this page” will appear as a tooltip on the link when it’s hovered on.
To use option 2, turn “Standard navigation icons” off, and add links using the “Page # link/label/icon” fields in the Customize menu.
This method lets you add only up to 8 links, but you can give each one its own icon using the corresponding “Page # icon” field.
The text in “Page # label” will appear as a tooltip on the link when it’s hovered on.
Navigation items only appear if the “Page # link” field is filled in.
Comic focused options: Comic navigation (option for image or text links), home/“read chronologically” buttons
Option for header image and two background images
Option for tall/fixed-on-scroll header
Custom colors, fonts (Google/Tumblr fonts), font sizes, and post sizes
Optional title/avatar/description, search bar, like/reblog buttons, tags, Archive/Random links
Responsive
Four special tag links, plus unlimited custom links (see my theme installation guide for how to add these)
Supports new post types/pinned posts
And more!
My first ever comic theme, and an entry for the Opposites Attract challenge! Features some special scripting to ensure chronological page navigation works smoothly regardless of your pagination choices.
See more about how to customize this theme (especially for comic usage) and theme credits under the cut.
Customization in general:
Use either all images or no images for page navigation (first/previous/next/last), as the styles for text navigation are only activated when no images are present.
If you’d like, you can change the four custom tag links to redirect to other non-tag pages. To do this, search for “TAG LINKS” in the theme code, and remove “/tagged/” from the href attributes (href=“/tagged/{text:Tag 1 name}” -> href=“{text:Tag 1 name}”). You will now be able to add any link in the “Tag 1 name” field; this can be repeated for Tag 2, Tag 3, and Tag 4.
Customization for webcomic blogs specifically:
For the page navigation (first/previous/next/last) to lead to the appropriate pages, set your blog to display only one post per page. Do this by going to Advanced options on the Customize page, then setting Posts per page to 1.
For the “First” navigation link, add the link to your first comic page under the “First comic page URL” field. To accommodate for future blog URL changes, you might want to write the link simply in the format “/post/1234567890”, deleting all other parts of the URL.
To use the default newspaper title font in the header, disable the “Use Tumblr fonts for title” toggle, then leave the “Google font for title” field empty.
Appearance options (show/hide header image/avatar/title/description, title font options, and background/text/accent colors) synchronize with mobile settings
Optional:Featured posts section, updates section, andblog member list in sidebar (require some HTML editing; see under the cut for instructions)
Unlimited custom links, plus a highlighted link under the title
Optional second palette
Customizable post width and font size
Optional search bar, like/reblog buttons, date/timestamps, tags (plus a show tags on click option), and Archive/Random links
Responsive
Supports new post types/pinned posts
And more!
For help, check my theme guide, or feel free to send me an ask. Theme credits and an HTML editing guide for the special sections are under the cut.
All of the below instructions assume that you’ve gone to your Customize page, then opened the “Edit HTML” menu.
Again, if you have trouble making your edits work, feel free to send me an ask or a DM for help.
Note for HTML beginners
Every bit of text or code is wrapped inside “tags”, which have arrow brackets on either side. For example, a paragraph is placed inside <p> tags. Every element has an “opening” and “closing” tag; the closing tag looks just like the opening tag, with a / after the opening bracket. The content inside one section is bracketed by these; for example, a paragraph would look like this:
<p>Text here!</p>
In the above line, <p> is the opening tag, and </p> is the closing tag. Tags of this sort can be placed inside each other:
<p>Some <span>special</span> text.</p>
Note that the “span” tags, both opening and closing, are both inside the “p” tags. You don’t want a misordered set, like “<p>Some <span>special text.</p></span>”. The opening tag nearest to the start should also have its closing tag nearest to the end.
It is extremely important that while editing the HTML for your theme, you make sure all opening tags have a matching closing tag. If you have a <div> tag, but no matching </div> tag, this might break the theme.
Featured posts
This section fetches the 3 most recent posts from a chosen tag on your blog. To select the tag:
Ctrl+F to “EDIT YOUR TAG HERE”.
On that line, there will be a link inside quotation marks, ending in “tagged=featured”.
Changefeatured to the tag of your choice; for example, “tagged=photo”. This tag can include spaces, such as “tagged=my writing”.
Save and ensure your posts show up as intended.
By default, the tagged posts are fetched from your blog, but you can change this so that the featured posts are from a different blog:
Ctrl+F to “EDIT YOUR TAG HERE”.
On that line, there will be a link inside quotation marks, starting with “https://{Name}.tumblr.com”.
Change{Name} to the blog username of your choice; for example, “https://starlightthemes.tumblr.com”.
Save and ensure your posts show up as intended.
Be careful not to change any other parts of that section. The code for fetching the posts from blogs is easy to break.
Updates section
The updates section has two editable parts: the title, and the actual updates.
To edit the title:
Ctrl+F to “EDIT HERE: UPDATES”.
Scroll a few lines down, until you find the line reading “<h2>Latest updates</h2>”.
Change “Latest updates” to say whatever you want. Make sure the text stays inside the <h2>…</h2> tags. For example, if you want the heading to read “My activity”, that line of code should read “<h2>My activity</h2>”.
To edit updates:
Ctrl+F to “EDIT HERE: UPDATES”.
A little under this line, you’ll see a template, with the outermost tags reading <div class=“update”>…</div>. If you’re adding a new update, copy this template.
Scroll a few lines down, until you find the line reading “<!– all updates below this line –>”.
Now, for each update, paste the template once over (two updates are present for you to start with), and edit three things: -> “3-LETTER MONTH HERE”: The first three letters of the update month, e.g. “Jan”. -> “2-DIGIT DATE HERE”: The two-digit version of the update date, e.g. “01” or “31”. -> “UPDATE TEXT HERE”: The actual text that’ll show up as the update.
Make sure that all the updates are separate- the starting <div class=“update”> and the ending </div> of two updates shouldn’t overlap.
Make sure all your updates are above the line reading “”<!– all updates above this line –>“.
Save and make sure things look how you want them to.
Members list
To change the title of the members section:
Ctrl+F to "EDIT HERE: MEMBERS LIST”.
Scroll a few lines down, until you find the line reading “<h2>Blog members</h2>”.
Change “Blog members” to say whatever you want. Make sure the text stays inside the <h2>…</h2> tags. For example, if you want the heading to read “The gang”, that line of code should read “<h2>The gang</h2>”.
Scroll further down, until you find the line that reads “<h2>{lang:Group members}</h2>”. Again, change this to your chosen title, such as “<h2>The gang</h2>”.
The actual members list can be customized in two ways. One, for group blogs, you can have it automatically fetch the blog members’ main blog names/titles/icons. To do this, turn on “Members list” and turn off “Custom members list” in the main theme settings.
The other option is to manually add any group members and their icons/links. This will also allow you to add customized names and descriptions for each member. To use this option, turn on BOTH “Members list” and “Custom members list”. Then:
Ctrl+F to “EDIT HERE: MEMBERS LIST”.
A little under that, you’ll see a template with the outermost tags reading <a class=“member” href=“//BLOGNAME.tumblr.com”>…</a>. If you’re adding members, copy this template.
Scroll a few lines down, until you find the line reading “<!– all members below this line –>”.
Now, for each member, paste the template (two members are present for you to start with) and edit three things: -> “BLOGNAME”: Next to “href” in the <a> tag, and next to “src” in the <img> tag. Change this to your member’s username, such as “starlightthemes”. -> “MEMBER NAME”: Takes the place of the username. This will show up in bold at the top. -> “MEMBER DESCRIPTION”: Takes the place of the blog title. This will show up at the bottom.
Make sure that all the members are separate- the starting <a class=“member” href=“…”> and the ending </a> of two members shouldn’t overlap.
Make sure all your members are above the line reading “”<!– all members above this line –>“.
Save and make sure things look how you want them to.
Search drives ROI by creating intent to buy and people go into an e-commerce site more often than not to search and buy a product online, then e-commerce companies have better data about consumer buying behavior than search companies.
No wonder Amazon and Flipkart have a very good idea about the kind of books I read and the kind of lenses I should buy next.
Imagine if search companies started recommending links based on browsing behavior and charged content creating companies to create content relevant to those?
A second revamp of one of my favorite header themes, which was broken down and built back up using my recently updated base code, which also includes NPF compatibility. Most importantly this theme uses the new UI trend of 2022 known as claymorphism. I find this UI design to be one of my favorites and decided to implement it into this theme.
Features
Option for dark mode. New: (theme will stay in dark mode until you manually turn it off)
6 post sizes between 300px & 540px
Up to 3 columns
3 post padding options
1px - 9px gutter sizes in multiples of two
4 post margin options
8 font options
Up to six custom links
Left & justify post text align option
Option for small cursor
Scroll to top
Grayscale and fading image option
Option to show/hide captions
Click to show tags
Extra notes
Sidebar image is 160px x 160px
Remember that by using my themes you have agreed to the terms of use
An ‘all in one’ theme with tabbed links, profile, ask/faq and submit sections, featuring an optional ‘featured tags’ section with post count for 6 tags. It includes fully customisable colours, images, fonts & sizing.
The preview, customisation guide, credits & code can be found in the source of this post.
Pleasereblog/like if you use this theme! If you have any issues please don’t hesitate to message me!
The title of this theme as well as the images & lyrics in the preview are all from Uncover by Seulgi (Red Velvet)
Nitrogen is an exploration into the use of CSS sticky elements. Greet your blog visitors with a flashy header image that transforms into a fixed top bar as you scroll. With several customisation options, pick the style that best fits you!
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