Armed and Dangerous: H-band now has his own blog--Urban Botanist

Maybe it was my trash-talking around our wedding, or the small burst of pleasure he got when he guest-blogged on Pause and some folks found his voice preferable to mine, or the annoyance of having to constantly answer the question, "Do you blog?" while accompanying me to some digital media shindig.

"No," he would say. "But I'm married to someone who does." This was all he felt he needed at the time.

The next question would inevitably come from his interrogator, "Oh...So then, what do you do?"

He would answer straightforwardly, "I'm a landscape architect."

And the response would always be the same, "Oh, cool, so you do, like, lawns and stuff?" which would elicit a reaction--perhaps even a lecture--about the importance of landscape design and sustainability.

Now H-band will have some cred with the digital dorks of the world, something beyond the fact that he reads Gizmodo, while simultaneously bringing the world up to speed on just how important green design and landscape architecture is--especially now, as our livable space and natural resources are shrinking.

Introducing Urban Botanist--my Baby's baby--where H-band (aka Jesse Markman) geeks out on plants, sustainability, and the joys of single-speed cycling (among every other kind under the sun, what, didya think he was a one-note?).

If anyone from SixApart can offer my husband some advice on getting his banner centered, it would really create some peace in my house. I never got my own banner to look right, so I left it as-is--as if it was intentional. He's a little less complacent with that solution.

Comments

[Leigh]

The couple that blogs together stays together. Or something like that. I think it's a great idea for your husband to experience the blog life through his own passion.

[GoingLikeSixty]

I love that you call him H-band.
To a boomer it sounds like cross between H-bomb and radio band. So old tech.

Wi-fe isn't bad. But readers would probably think he meant wi-fi. That's not all bad either. You are wireless, and I assume you have conjugal faithfulness.

I'm having a great time being a hobby blogger, meaning it's my hobby. (Does that make me a blobber? a hogger????)

I blog for work to, but only because I think I should.

Re: centered image. All the code slaves in your life and you can't get a centered image? Mine is!
Neener Neener Neener...

[Joy]

I just came from Jesse's site....I love it. It looks great. Oh, this should be fun Jor...as if you didn't have enough to keep you on your toes. -Mom -xo-

[Nick Smith]

Hi Jory

I'm not a techie really, but this should work:

In the design section of HB's weblog find 'custom CSS' and then enter the following:

#banner
{
background-position: center;
}

Press the save button then republish the weblog. If you already see #banner { } there just enter the middle bit between the curly braces.

Love to you two.

[H-band]

Thanks for the plug babe! And thanks for your patience. I know that it can't be easy coaching an irate geek trying to center his banner (which you can't really fine tune unless you have the "pro" version of typepad, which allows custom CSS).

[Steve]

We all know how well Jesse mows the lawn...

[Felix Gerena]

On the banner issue. I just did it by resizing it (Use Windows Paint for it). Try. You can take a look at mine. At first it looked like yours and your husband's.