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10K

Today Genome Toolbox surpassed 10,000 page views!  A great milestone which has yet to be achieved by any of my other blogs.  Thanks to all who have visited the site and for the continued encouragement to keep adding content.  Stay tuned for more tools and tips relevant to genomic analysis.

2K

Today Genome Toolbox hit a cumulative total of 2,000 page views over the life of the blog!  Its exciting to see so much interest in genomic analysis tools.  Thanks for stopping by and keep coming back to check out whats new.

1,000 Page Views

Today, Genome Toolbox is on track to reach 1,000 page views!  What an awesome milestone.  I am thrilled so many people have found the blog and are using it as a resource.  Thank you all for your interest and keep the feedback coming.

Customize Gists

Setting up this blog, I knew I would be including a lot of code snippets into the postings.  GitHub gists seemed like a good option for easily embedding, formatting, and color-coding my code snippets.  The color scheme of the embedded gists somewhat clashed with my blog color scheme and the formatting of the gists made the blog posts look a bit busy.  After some searching, I found and modified some CSS code to give the embedded gists a cleaner look and mesh better with the overall design of the blog.  There seems to be a lot of options of which I only used a small subset.  It is essential to include “!important” after each CSS attribute, since the gist stylesheet will be loaded after your site's stylesheet, giving the gist stylesheet priority over your styles, unless you use the “!important”.

GibHub

Starting this blog, I found it difficult to share snippets of code easily through the blogger interface.  I stumbled across an easy tool to help do this: GitHub.  Its a pretty easy-to-use interface that allows you to paste your code into a text box, select which coding language you are using, and then creates an easy one line link you can embed into your Blogger blog.  It even highlights certain commands and syntax that are relevant to that coding language.  Pretty slick.