So I've been made aware that what I was hoping was an issue unique to my computer is an issue for everyone else's too - with my last post, the post titles and the sidebar information all changed from legibly tan colored to illegibly blue, and I wasn't able to get them switched back using the Template even though it appears that I should be able to.
A little online research suggests that this probably happened because the post was a long one and I created it first as an MS Word document and then copied it over into the blog template, which apparently is something you should never ever do. (This might be useful information for Blogger to include when introducing people to their features, she said irritably.) As I understand it, the Word coding erases and replaces a large block of HTML code in the template that governs color.
The first two posts, when clicked on directly, seem to be fine, and if it proves that only that single post is effected I may ask for everyone's indulgence, leave it as it is and move on older and wiser with a valuable lesson learned. If it's screwed everything up completely going forward, there is a way to correct it, but it involves either changing the color scheme of the blog (Easy Way), which I quite like and it'd be nice to keep, or taking down and reformatting the post - which naturally is a long one with lots of images, because that's how life works - and digging into the HTML code (Hard Way), which frankly is a little above my skill set and I'll need to enlist the aid of the Mac wizard. (Fortunately I have one nearby!)
This post is a bit in the nature of a test to see just how much trouble I'm in and how much of a pain it's going to be to fix it. Apologies to all who are struggling to read blue-on-red or red-on-red text. I do know there's a thing, and please bear with me while I mess around with it in my semi-ept way!
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